Year 3 - Day 20 - January 20

With the AFC Championship game coming up this weekend, lots of local stores are selling Ravens gear. Shop-Rite, my usual grocery store, is carrying the Festivus line. I was going to get one of those but they have faces on the shirt of several players, and they're not that great looking. Tonight on the way home I stopped to visit my favorite pharmacist to do some research. (He wasn't there, but my favorite pharmacist tech was, and that's just as good!) Redner's is selling these tee shirts, which are a little more specific to the fact that the Ravens are playing Tom Brady. ;) They're not official though, even though they have the hologram sticker. None of the things had the real Ravens logo on them!

Year 2 - Day 253 - September 11

As exciting as the opening night of the NFL was, I'm sure today is even more exciting for football fans around town. Today's the Ravens first game that counts. Late on Friday night my husband got offered a ticket with his friends, so he is down there. I'm home doing homework and occasionally checking the score and listening from the other room. So far, the Ravens are actually playing well. Hopefully they remember that the football game is 60 minutes long and keep playing hard until the end.

Of course today is also the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I was student teaching and the 1st graders in my classroom had no comprehension of what was going on. I remember all the parents coming to get their kids early, and the little ones saying things like "Wow there sure are a lot of people with dentist and doctor appointments today!" I guess their only reference for why kids would go home early would be for appointments. Other older kids were saying things like "Are the mosquitos coming?" or "Was there a bad shark attack?" because it was the summer of West Nile and lots of shark attacks. Amazing how their brains would just grasp for something, because they knew something was up but had no idea what.

Year 2 - Day 2 - January 2

We went to the Ravens game today.  They didn't play very well, but managed to win in the end.  I loved that there was a nice winter thaw just in time for the game.  40's and 50's is a much more game friendly temperature than I was expecting for the first weekend in January. 

On the way home, we stopped at Minato so Mike could have sushi.  I had sesame chicken which was a completely different recipe than I had ever come across.  It wasn't fried and in a gooey sauce like every other place I have had it ... it was however completely encrusted in sesame seeds.  Surprising and tasty.  Mike had a bunch of random rolls.  It cost more than we like to spend when we go out, but very affordable for sushi and I brought half of my chicken home.  Mike's biggest issue with living "way out here" is that the quality sushi places are lacking.  He's used to living closer to the beltway where sushi restaurants grow like weeds. 

And so, Christmas vacation ends...

Day 360 - December 26

Since we're 2 hours behind east coast time, football starts at 11am here.  We found a bar that serves brunch and has Sunday ticket so that we could watch the Ravens game.  It gave me a chance to wear my new Flacco jersey! :)

Day 290 - October 17

I have spent most of the weekend on the couch.  Yesterday I caught up with my DVR for awhile, but today Mike is watching lots and lots of football.  Since I am so exhausted, I'm happy to just sit here and let it be on!

Day 10- January 10th

Watching the surprisingly good Ravens game at the inlaws with family today. Wishing I had a ravens jersey!

Goal for upcoming weeks is to use my real camera and take some good pictures!