Baltimore Cupcake Company

Derek likes milk with his cupcakes.

Araña tattoo

Derek and I did it. We finally got tattoos. We've been talking about it for years and we did it. Mine is the spider from the Nazca Lines. The giant sand drawings in the southern Peruvian desert. Derek got a Peruvian Chakana with a slight variation.

Moveable Feast - Your Support Needed More Than Ever!

For the last three years I have participated in the Ride For The Feast. A 2 day, 140 mile fundraising event for Moveable Feast. This non-profit organization has provide food to HIV/AIDS patients in Maryland. Now, due to some budget cuts, 175 clients may have to be turned away by Moveable Feast.

$165,000 of Moveable Feast's annual Ryan White Funding is to be cut by tomorrow, March 1, 2007. Due to new definitions regarding who can receive Ryan White funds, healthy, dependent family members of patients can no longer receive services. On the surface this may sound like a good idea but several clients are in extremely difficult situations.

Under this new definition, if a single mother is a client and has two healthy children at home, she will be the only one allowed to receive food. The meals for her children will be discontinued. Who is most likely to be eating the food that is being delivered?

This is why your help is needed more than ever. While Moveable Feast is trying to find additional funding to fill this gap it will be a very tight budget for a while.

Please consider sponsoring my Ride For The Feast and helping me raise money for Moveable Feast. Your support could help continue meals for the 175 clients that may no longer eligible for services.

Baltimore Goes Smoke Free!

We will on January 1, 2008. A smoking ban was approved last night by the Baltimore City Council. The ban received some great last minute support by Mayor Sheila Dixon who called a few city council members before the vote pushing for the ban. Mayor Dixon said she will sign the smoking ban when it reaches her desk.

This ban brings almost half of Marlanders under some smoking policy so attention is now turning to the General Assembly in Annapolis to pass a state ban.

This will ban smoking in almost all public places, which includes bars, restaurants and cabs. Exemptions can be made through the Health Department but city officials have several months to set the criteria.

Sponsor My Ride

Two Days
140 Miles
One Cause

I'm at it again! My fourth year out for Moveable Feast. I've finally gotten off my lazy butt to register. Now if I can only get my butt back onto my bike!

Please Sponsor My Ride and support the efforts of Moveable Feast. This organization provides food, meals and job training to many people and could use your help.

I Am Not A Tourist!

My neice hates looking like a tourist. So I snapped some pictures of her taking pictures. Talk about looking like a tourist!

Around the Washington Monument

After lunch (and coffee) we walked by the Washington Monument

Happy again!

After finally getting her caffine fix, my neice was happy again!

Kids want coffee

Food Court in Union Station

After meeting my family in DC, Derek and I took them the beautiful Union Station for lunch. While taking some pictures of my family a couple of girls asked me to take their picture. So I snapped a shot of them.

White House and family

After dinner I took them on an unfortunate drive around the monuments. I couldn't figure out the roads and kept doing the same circle but we did get a nice veiw of the White House at night.

El Chalan

We ate a lot of Peruvian Food while my family was here. There was Peruvian style rotisserie chicken in Baltimore called Chicken Rico, a Peruvian-Chinese restaurant in Virginia called Kam Po and a typical Peruvian restaurant in DC called El Chalan.

This pic was after a nice meal in Ell Chalan. Anticuchos! Yum!

Best calamari in town

John Steven LTD has, in my humble opinion, some of the best calamari around. In historic Fells Point and just off the water, it's a great location and good food!

Around the Inner Harbor

My mom had to wait for a package for my sister today so Derek and I took our neice and nephew to the Inner Harbor to take in some sites and to enjoy a ride on a Water Taxi to historic Fell's Point.