St Michaels: Take 2

Good morning! (and it IS a good one! this is the best weather we've had yet! cool, 72 maybe?)

I'm at a very cool coffee shop in St Michaels. it used to be a house... there are comfy chairs and couches, my mocha is wonderful and my chocolate muffin is AMAZING!

It's been a few days since I posted... last you knew we were still in Baltimore. From there, we went to Chestertown. It's a tiny little town, not much there, but we still had fun! We had a great supper at a little restaurant called The Blue Heron, just a few blocks from the marina.

We left Chestertown Thursday morning a little later than usual to work around some tide issues. We still got into St Michaels around noonish, despite an incredibly dangerous altercation with a "praying mantis" (that's in quotes because that's what the captain called it. I prefer the term "Ashley-eating prehistoric winged demon," but whatever.)

To get here, we had to go through a very narrow waterway called, appropriately, Kent Narrows. The weather was icky... the picture I took explains it all:

The slip where we docked to begin with was 18.5 ft wide... and so is the boat. Know this: we got into the slip like pros. An overall uneventful docking experience. Those are the best. But after we tied off, the dockmaster conferred with the captain, and we moved to the end of a T-head. We're much happier there.

Thursday night we went to a restaurant we went to with Dick and Fran last summer- it was just as good as we remembered! I had stuffed shrimp! mmmm!

Yesterday, we took the car that Barry and Alice's friends lent them and we drove all around St Michaels and Tilghman Island (BEAUTIFUL middle-of-nowhere... anyone in the market for 935 acres? got an extra $100,000 lying around? seriously.) Oh and we saw this gorgeous church- check out the stained glass! Then we went into Easton, a town a little larger than St Michaels about 15 minutes away... we window shopped and had a good lunch at a pub.

The marina where we're staying has filled up for the weekend- lots of pretty boats... and some not so pretty. If you're wondering, yes, that is a couch. and what looks like a Christmas tree, but we think it's an umbrella.
This is why God made chocolate and vanilla, I suppose.