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Hermione Visits Baltimore

Recently, I noticed that the Visit Alexandria website was advertising the arrival of the ship “Hermione” to the Alexandria harbor. The event included various activities and the ship looked beautiful from the picture. The Hermione was supposed to be there for 10 days, but it was almost over by the week-end. After Alexandria, the ship was planned to visit several historical ports, one of them was Baltimore next week-end.

Early Sunday morning Dave and I arrived at the Baltimore Inner Harbor to explore the Hermione, visit the National Aquarium and enjoy a beautiful sunny day on the Harbor. Isn’t she beautiful?

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Virginia Renaissance Fair

Dave and I enjoy visiting the Renaissance festivals or fairs. We attended several of them through the years and always had a great time there. It is like going back in time to take a glimpse of how life was back then. This year we visited the Virginia Renaissance festival. It was a nice venue, although not as large as Maryland or North Carolina Renaissance festivals. I discovered that there are two types of Renaissance Festivals: the permanent (or semi-permanent) faire like The Maryland Renaissance Festival with buildings and streets, etc. and the tent faire where the buildings are mostly tents with small stages as in the case of the Virginia Renaissance Faire.

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