O Say Can You See Fort McHenry?

So on a whim this past weekend, we decided to go to Baltimore. None of us are really fans of Baltimore-- their baseball sucks, it's not really (probably never was) the city that reads, and there's nothing much outside of the inner harbor. Besides, Gordon and I spent many nights in Baltimore sleeping in the Maryland Science Center with JrNYLC.

But it was a nice day... and we were restless. So we went to Baltimore and decided to go check out Fort McHenry. Some background information about Fort McHenry (for those of you that don't know):

During the War of 1812, the brick fort defended the Baltimore harbor and stopped a British advance into the city. Surrounded by water on three sides and far enough from Baltimore to provide protection without endangering the city, it was the valiant defense of the fort by 1,000 Americans that inspired Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and amateur poet, to compose the Star Spangled Banner, originally entitled Defense of Fort McHenry.

--http://www.baltimore.org/fort_mchenry.htm

Fort McHenry was pretty cool. It's a fort-- so it's very fort like. And there's actual ramparts, though we saw nothing bursting in air. We had a lot of fun posing with cannons and jail cells (see pictures to the left).

It's good to know that there's other fun things in Baltimore. You should check it out.