Ah.....St. Michaels

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It’s been a day or so since we updated, so we’ll try and fill you in on our activities. Wednesday morning we left Annapolis, but not before getting up early and walking with Herb and Mary to a interesting breakfast place called Chick and Ruth’s Café. The place was packed and the breakfast was great, but the interesting thing was that at 8:30 am, the owner picked up a microphone and asked everyone in the café’ to rise and repeat the Pledge of Allegiance, which we did. It really was quite emotional.

We boarded AWEIGH after returning to the marina and headed out across the Chesapeake to the Eastern shore and the quaint and historic town of St. Michaels. Ed and Nancy Weise had joined us for breakfast and rode over on the boat. They were some of the land cruisers who joined our group, but staying in hotels. After docking in the early afternoon, we walked over to the waterfront restaurant and ate hard-shell crabs. As you can see from the picture, they cover the table with wrapping paper. They dump the crabs on the table and you break, cut or hammer them open with your hands. Good eating, but a lot of work. Herb Jones really got into the action as you can see in the picture. By the way, double click on the picture for a blow up that’s easier to see.

We wandered in to the town, and the ladies did some shopping in the gift and clothing shops. Herb even purchased a snappy hat for Coldwater. The town is really old and as you can see from the picture, several houses date back over three hundred years.

We had a group dinner at the Town Dock restaurant and the food was good, but the room was very noisy with all forty of us trying to talk at once.