Today we headed out to Annapolis. My camera is still MIA (and I forgot the old one which works “sometimes”) so this will be a sadly “unillustrated” entry. Still, it was a great day.

We began at St. Anne’s Church, one of the older buildings in Annapolis, checking out the awesome stained glass and extensive collection of needlepoint kneelers. It was a lovely collection of “folk art”.

From there, we went to the Maryland State House (nice, but not nearly as awesome in the art department as the Pennsylvania Capital Building). We also checked out the memorials to Thurgood Marshall and Alex Haley.  I hadn’t realized that Roots was the port at which Kunte Kinte arrived in the novel. Or in real life either, since the novel was based on Haley’s actual family history. 

We also made it to the Naval Academy – incredibly clean campus! – where Nathan and Seth were insanely enthralled with all the bone carved ships that had been made by POWs during the American Revolution.  Kayla and I were more interested in Enigma, as they had one of the captured machines upstairs. Also, we visited the tomb of John Paul Jones, the Revolutionary War naval hero who was NOT (as we explained to Nathan) related to Davy Jones as in dead pirate underlord.