Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Ocean City, MD–still a busy beach town, even in October

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Rainy Maryland

As we left Lums Pond State Park and continued south through the Delmarva Peninsula, we picked up some rain as we got closer to Maryland.  It wasn’t coming down too hard, and we only had about 110 miles to travel, so it wasn’t too bad.


Fortunately, we had a break in the rain as we arrived at Castaways RV in Ocean City, so we were able to get set up and take Casey for a walk around the resort before it started up again.


We walked down by the beach and you could really feel the cold front moving in – it was a cold and blustery day!

The beach at Castaway RV Park

Tiki Bar










After our walk we went back inside the warm RV and I put on a batch of spaghetti sauce for dinner.   Mmm!

We woke up to drizzle on Saturday morning, but kept our hopes up that it would clear by noon, as the weathermen promised.  Nicolas called at 7:30 to let us know he was on his way!

He arrived at 10, and after getting caught up on what he’s been up to, I made us some brunch and we headed down to the boardwalk in Ocean City.  The rain had stopped, but it was still cloudy.

Ocean City Boardwalk

We walked along the boardwalk and beach, and we were surprised at the number of people there on this rather dismal October weekend.  There was some type of kite show going on,

Kites on the beach

Kite demonstration

It's a flying pig!

bubbles!,

Big bubbles

and some type of ultimate frisbee competition.

We walked along the beach – it was a nice beach, and the hotels along the beach look pretty nice, too.

Hotels on the beach

Glad to have the boy home for a few days!











Ocean Gallery

The boardwalk was very nice, too – lots of your typical tourist shops and restaurants . . . lots of stuff on sale, too . . . if we needed T-shirts, we would have been in luck!

We did buy some salt water taffy, though . . . can’t go to the beach and not get taffy!  Dolle’s – it was REALLY good!  We had to get more later to take with us!





We had heard from some folks in the campground that there was a Corvette show going on at the boardwalk, too . . . as we walked, we kept seeing more and more people in Corvette shirts, and at the end of the boardwalk we finally found them.

Lots of Corvettes

They were all getting lined up for a parade at 4pm.

Rows and rows of Corvettes











The majority of the cars were newer Corvettes, but there were a few really nice older models, too!

Nice Stingray

Nice!











A couple of nice older Corvetttes

We debated whether we should stick around for the parade or not, but Tom was getting hungry and our parking time was about to run out, so we decided to head over to Berlin, where there was an Oktoberfest going on, and get some lunch there.

There were a couple of bands playing in the streets,

One of the bands at Oktoberfest

The German Band











and breweries offering beer tasting.

Tasting a few beers

I’m not a beer drinker, so I passed on that, but Tom and Nicolas did some sampling and each got a beer with their lunch.

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After lunch and looking around through the few shops in town, we debated going back to the boardwalk for the Corvette parade, but Nicolas said he would rather go back to the campground to pass out candy to trick-or-treaters.

Halloween decor

In the dragon;s lair











It was the first of the campground’s three Halloween weekends, and there was a fair amount of kids around for the festivities.

Tom and Nick were ready for them!

Ready for the trick-or-treaters

The rain held off for a couple hours, but then the drizzle started again, driving us inside for the rest of the evening.

Meanwhile back in Michigan, Bryce and several thousand of his fellow MSU students were camping out with the basketball team and Coach Tom Izzo.

Lots of students at the campout!

Lots of tents at the campout










Bryce and friends with Coach Izzo

(That’s my bearded son in the Piggly Wiggly shirt!)

Looks like he had a good time!

1 comment:

  1. Nice that you had time to spend with Nicolas and seeing the sights in Maryland.
    Looks like Bryce is keeping himself busy as well.
    Be Safe and Enjoy!

    It's about time.

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