From New York to Baltimore

Yesterday we managed to go shopping - a bit. It is definately NOT Sebastians favorite thing, but it helped that we had remembed his 'fishing line' with which he caught one bit shark after the other at the shop. For lunch we went back - as promised - to the Grand Central Oyster bar, where Tue got six grand oysters. I got a creamy clam chowder (soup) which was very good. We took a slow afternoon, with some packing and picking up of laundry, and went out for dinner at the Montana Grill House. Great place with some very yummy steaks. Sebastian preferred the chocolate chip cookie and played around with his pirates. 

This morning we went to Central Park. Even though the wind was still cold and fresh, the sun came out to swept the park in Spring sunshine. They had a great new playground ready for Sebastian in the lower part of the park, and he ran, slided, crawled and climbed for a good hour. Then it was time to take a taxi to Penn Station, where we had to queue up in a very slow and long line for our tickets (prebooked from back home - but the ticket machines would not accept the credit card!!!). We made it just in time, grabbed a few sandwiches and boarded the Acela Express towards Baltimore. Sebastian enjoyed the ride and we arrived in Baltimore only a couple of hours after leaving NY. 

Baltimore is definately MUCH smaller than Manhatten. We thougt that the hotel where we had booked our room would be quite a walk away from the harbour. Well, we can throw a stone down the water from our window! Great! However, we had to move rooms (hi, Libbe, you are NOT the only one anymore!), as we had been placed next to a very smoking room (even if it is not allowed!) - we had cigarette-smell all over the place, and they have been very nice to move us to another room right away. With a better view of the harbour even! We went to a very good steak restaurant just a few blocks away, and Sebastian was great just playing with his toys, fishing a bit, drinking milk, eating a little snacks and giggling away when 'Politibetjent Madsen' sent him off to prison (a new favorite game).

On Easter Sunday we cannot help but think - with envy - on the family Easter gathering back home, with the lake and the ducks, the eggs, both from the poultry and the ones made of chocolate. Sebastian says "Gæk" "Gæk" to whomever received his letters - by the way. We hope that everone enjoyed the day, and send our Easter greetings to all our friends and family.