Baltimore

In November, my coworker, Janet, and I got selected to go to Baltimore for a Society of Women Engineers conference. The conference was packed with women who managed to make "man" a three syllable word.

"Why is it whenever I suggest something, it's not a good idea. But if a maaa-aaa-aan says it, it's a great idea?"

So the women's power thing wasn't my thing, but the sessions were interesting and I got to tour the Army's materials research lab. As it turns out Baltimore is a really neat city. We stayed at the Hilton Baltimore in the inner harbor overlooking in the Orioles baseball stadium. Janet and I used one day to go touring. We went antiques browsing in Fell's Point, rode a water taxi around the harbor, and toured the 150 year old USS Constellation. Also, a 100 year old Norwegian ship, the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, pulled into port during the week while we were there.


It was a beautiful ship and fun to watch the crew work the deck in their white uniforms.