A visit to Annapolis, another photo(b)log...

We left Myrtle Beach on Friday afternoon and arrived in Annapolis that night at about 11pm.  The next day, my parents woke up bright and early and told us to come meet them at breakfast when we were ready.  By the time my sisters and I had woken up, showered, gotten dressed, and walked to where my parents had gone for breakfast, they had been finished and waiting for us for an hour. After we had all eaten, we strolled around the harbor a bit and I got a new t-shirt and hat.  Emily began to complain she wasn't feeling good, so we dropped her off at the hotel room and the four of us went to visit the Naval Academy.  Unfortunately I didn't take take nearly as many pictures as I should have, but I got a few.  


Inside one of the Academy halls, This building looks a lot like the RPI Armory (and it actually was an armory for a while).  The floor is designed to be used as an ice rink, but because of the age of the building, that function was recently discontinued.  


Apparently the first in command at the Academy has to worry about being attacked a lot because he has a few mounted guns like this one around his campus residence.  


This is the main entrance to the dorms, this grandeur is no delusion.


Entrance to the hall of honor.  


This is Tecumsah, warrior spirit of the students.  He stands guard outside the dorm building.  The students have dressed him up as Iron Man.


Tecumsah from behind, I thought the left side of the plinth looked very cool from this angle.

During our tour of the Academy we were brought to see the Crypt of John Paul Jones, The man who said "I have not yet begun to fight" in response to a request for his surrender during a naval battle in the Revolutionary War.  



The sarcaphogas of John Paul Jones.  


His ceremonial sword along with some medals he might have worn.  The medal on the far right was awarded to him (very)posthumously, though I've forgotten what it was for.  


After the tour we got to see the midshipmen (not cadets, those are army recruits) forming up to march off to a football game.  The sea of white was quite impressive.  






After we left the Academy we reaquired Em, and went walking through town to do some shopping and get dinner.  After dinner we took a walk around the historic district of Annapolis.  

A view of the state house.


We found Fleet Street...


...but no demon barber.


My dad and I though this was an ironic combination of signs.  


We also went for a ghost walk through the city.  There were some cool stories, and some creepy stories, but as with every other ghost walk I've been on, we saw no ghosts.  I have pictures from the walk, but none of them are especially good so I'm not going to bother posting them.