Happy Anniversary to us!

On Saturday we had our 3rd anniversary and what did we do? We went hiking, of course! There is an old railroad line that runs from Baltimore north to Pennsylvania; we have gone hiking on this trail a few other times. This time we went up to Pennsylvania for our hike. York, PA is about 50 miles from Baltimore and we went hiking just a little south of York. This part of the trail is pretty neat because the rails are still there, further south the rails have been removed.

It wasn't very busy either, which was nice. Mostly bikers were there, there was some "evidence" of horses around, but we didn't see any. We went about 6.5 miles which brings our total miles since May to 97.3 miles. We wanted to make 100 miles over the summer, but that didn't quite work out so we extended the deadline to the end of the year. I think we can make the 2.7 miles by December. :)

A geological sidenote: There was a lot of great schist along this trail, John's head is for scale.

Schist is a metamorphic rock. It is made when shale is heated up deep in the earth and it metamorphises into schist. A lot of the schist along this trail was at an angle like you can see above. It was really very interesting to look at.

Are you going to Scarborough Faire?

This weekend was the Baltimore Marathon, the race went right by our apartment. They started nice and early and Chopper and I were on the porch watching and when the runners went by people would clap and cheer. That made Chopper wonder what the heck was going on. He was growling and barking a little bit. Maybe he was just getting into the spirit of things and cheering everyone on.

In the afternoon we decided to go to the Maryland Renaissance Fair.

It was such a nice day for it. We did not dress up, but the costume rental was very reasonable. Chopper was not allowed to come with, but he did dress up. Doesn't he look great?

The joust was pretty neat, too. The horses were so cool. This one was my favorite: