Hey There, Baltimore!

After a red eye flight and then a shorter flight on a old, clunky plane, I finally arrived in Baltimore to see my sister! She’s come to visit me several times while I’m was in college so I thought it might be nice to repay the favor. It was perfect timing since I’m starting work next week and this is kind of the last of my summer vacation. It’s also another thing on my 22 Things list! I have a good feeling that I’ll be able to get through my list.

Go Bears!

After getting to Baltimore, I was starving for something to eat. The last I ate was before my flight so I was due for a meal. Unfortunately the crepe place my sister wanted to take me to was closed so we headed back to campus and had salads at Freshii’s. It was pretty good and the produce was all very fresh. After lunch, I wanted to take a quick nap to make up for the sleep I didn’t get on the plane.

After waking up, my sister took me on a quick tour of campus where we took a look at different buildings. I really like the cohesive nature of JHU’s undergrad campus. All the buildings are the same brick material with modern furnishings. Their campus is really nicely kept up and it’s really different from the kind of eclectic, modge-podge architecture of Berkeley. The coolest thing was walking into their main hall and seeing the seal of Cal in there. Apparently, JHU’s first president was also one of the first presidents of Cal!
For dinner, we went to a little diner called Paper Moon Diner. The décor was a little bit creepy: there were all sorts of old dolls and vintage toys and Pez dispensers but the thing that really put me off was the number of mannequins that were in the diner. They ranged from colored ones with huge false eyelashes to ones that were just in the nude and seemed to stare at you. They certainly gave the diner a very particular feel but I couldn’t help but feel that something was looking at me while I was eating. There's also a mannequin in the bathroom, which makes you very uncomfortable while you're doing your business. The food was pretty good; I had potato pancakes and a prosciutto caprese sandwich. I’m not sure if it merits a Yelp review but Paper Moon definitely has a lot of character.

Scary mannequins.

The rest of the night was spent hanging out with some of the sister’s friends and just relaxing. It’s only 10:30PM here, which means it’s about 7:30PM Pacific Time but I’m already pretty pooped. I think I might just watch a few episodes of a TV show and curl up in bed for the rest of the night so that I’m energized for tomorrow!