Sunday 10th and Monday 11th January

After going to a local church, Joe and I went to downtown Annapolis with Bill and Margie. We wandered through the Naval Base Visitors Centre and then downtown amongst the beautiful old shops. I went looking for my favourite Christmas shop where I have bought some beautiful decorations before and it seems they have closed. There was a fire in the building next door about a year ago and they had been forced to relocate. It seems that the owners have retired. What a shame.
It was freezing cold again and after buying nice coffees we headed back to Bill and Margies house

Monday

We walked down to the waterfront just 3 doors from Margie's house. There was still some snow on the beach - weird - my brain couldn't grasp the concept!!

This is large flakes of ice on the shore!! It looked a bit like salt at first!

You can see here that the surface of the wate is frozen for about 3 metres out! This is the Chesapeake Bay and I thought salt was supposed to make ice melt. Stephen skipped a pebble across the water and it just sat on top of the ice when it stopped

We spent the afternoon shopping for last minute things. Joe and Bill had head out for the day on an excursion to Mt Vernon (George Washingtons home) and past his old neighbourhood in Kensington where he grew up.

We finished off a memorable visit with Bill and Margie by all going out to dinner at the Chart House. We got there just in time to see the sun set over Annapolis Harbour and they seated us right by the window. Absolutely delicious seafood!!