Bowie and Annapolis day trip

So yesterday, Quinn signed up with Aerotek in Bowie (pronounced “boo-ee” - strange, eh?) to become a 6 month contract worker, after which he’ll transition over to Progeny! Yay! His official start date is tomorrow, so after we wrapped up the paperwork in Bowie, we headed over to Annapolis to celebrate with the kids. We parked pretty close to the dock, and had lunch at a place called Sugar Buns in the Kitchen.



VERY interesting place, super tiny and filled up with more brightly colored paint than any preschool I’ve ever seen. Yelp had varying ratings, from horrible to awesome, so I was curious which end of the spectrum we’d experience. Quinn ordered for me... I got the lobster roll sandwich. YUM! He got a portabella & onion sandwich, and Ben got the Mega-BLT (or something like that) It was basically 2 slices of bread, with 2 sandwiches-worth of B+L+T inside. It looked great! The littles got mac-n-cheese, which was about 1 cup of Kraft box mac-n-cheese, with a little bit of grated cheddar on top. So basically, the 3 “adult” meals were very good, but the kids stuff was totally meh. Quinn and I also shared a cup of crab bisque, which was phenomenal. The broth was thin, but very flavorful, with white wine. Yum! Quinn didn’t like that there were a lot of crab shells in it, but I didn’t care.

After lunch, we wandered down to the end of the dock and let the kids run around on the bricks while we lounged in the sun. What a lovely way to wrap up Quinn’s “summer vacation”! We strolled back towards the car, and stopped at a Starbucks on the way. All in all, we had 8 minutes left on the 2-hour meter when we got back in the van and headed south. What a great little visit!