Finally, a picture of the Maryland relatives. In the center is "the queen", Virginia, who's the wife of John, upper left, first cousin of John, in the middle, and first cousin once removed of Mary on the lower left. On the right are John & Virginia's "adopted" daughter & son, Narelle (Australian by birth) and Art (Canadian by birth). They're both now US citizens but work in the hotel industry in China. John & Virginia lived in their hotel when John was bringing Seagrams to China (even the Chinese need a little gin & whiskey once in a while.)




Since we're on the "eastern shore", Mary decided to try her hand at crabbing. Let's just say we're fortunate we did not have to rely on her skills to supply dinner.

Meanwhile, John admires Comet #1 and how beautiful she is. In the background Patty is trying to find some resemblance between it and the boat (supposedly a Comet) currently housed in John's workshop. At least she knows he'll have plenty to keep him busy during his retirement years.

What? No pictures? Sorry, but we just weren't fast enough to capture the highlights. First, Charlie's northeast states map that Brooklyn Kathleen created for us ended up covered in wax (long story) and you couldn't see the states so that was out. Then Cyndy graciously lead us by car to 95 headed south and even though she had her arm out pointing at the entrance, John somehow missed it so had to do a U-turn. That would have been hard to take a photo of even if we had been fast. The "Welcome to" Delaware & Maryland, the last of the new states Mary will visit, flew by and we missed those. It was cocktail time when we arrived at John & Virginia's and we forgot about pictures. So....
Anyway, today is another day.