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Some late summer shots from Ocean City, MD

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Sean had a meet up group on Sunday, the 9th, so I tagged along. He didn’t spend the entire time at Seacrets! We went out to dinner after the afternoon meet up and had a yummy dinner at Peaky’s, a restaurant on the 8th floor of Fenwick Inn a few miles down the road. I love meal coupons (thanks to entertainment.com) and had $15 toward my dinner. I had prime rib and lobster tail and Sean had two lobster tails! We hadn’t eaten for a while (brought BLT to stop and eat) and we dove into our meals. I also thank Trip Advisor for their reviews. The prime rib was perfect! The lobster was good, but a little dry. Sean said both of his were fine.

Here are a few nice shots of mainly our view from the top floor.

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View from our table. The ocean changed as the sun set from that medium blue to steely gray.

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Bay view

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We headed to the boardwalk to see a laser show, but couldn’t find parking. We didn’t want to park in the inlet, which proved an unwise choice as that’s where the sphere on the beach with the laser show was!

We enjoyed watching this fellow make bubbles.

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And some other scenes from the boards

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The next day we did some geocaching. Actually we stopped in a few spots and got 5 Sunday and 5 Monday. We had stopped in Milton, DE for lunch and a few caches. First we found the Doghead Brewery and a cache was near there. Sean was interested in that. Then we located the historic society where another cache was.

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Tree house at the Dogfish Brewery

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Where we ate our Sunday lunch.

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Milton Historical Society

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Bethany Nature Center. We didn’t go in this one either.

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Goodbye seashore. Our visit was brief, but we know we’ll be back to explore other new places nearby.

Caching on the way to Ocean City, MD

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Right after we came back from Boonsboro, MD, we went back to Ocean City, MD the next weekend! Brian couldn’t go this time, so it was just mom and son. We stayed at a place we stayed in last year. It was nice, but we had ants in the sink in the morning on the third floor! Nothing sweet was left out or poured in it as far as I remember.

We got our act together and brought lunch. We decided to grab some caches on the way. I believe the first place we stopped was Dover. The town is mostly a pretty college town. We saw this pretty sight:

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This is Silver Lake. It has the perfect name!

Then we stopped at Slaughter Beach to eat lunch. They had a nice pavilion there and some people were enjoying the beach. The septic tanks were getting pumped out too. But we did get a cache!

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The hotel is very close to the beach, so we went down for a bit and Sean got his feet wet. I changed my top to a thin t-shirt, but I was freezing!  For Sean paying for the room, I looked through Trip Advisor and found a top rated restaurant in West Ocean City. It was about 20 minutes from our hotel and very crowded. We had to sit outside on the roof and it was chilly, but we had nice dinners! Sunset Grille lived up to its recommendations. I think I had Maui maui and Sean had a seafood pasta. We had brie, fruit and crackers for an appetizer. I just checked the menu and I think what we had were specials.

What a neat view of the inlet area at Ocean City

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The next day we checked out and got breakfast at Dumsters and looked for some caches. We decided to look around the Assateague and Berlin, MD area.

This is very rare to see a wild pony this close. I am thinking he was getting nibbles from tourists!

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We stopped at the visitor center that was new to us. We had been to one years ago. Very nice here!

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Loved this mural!

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We found a few caches in the area. There was one on the door of an old outhouse, the kind with the half moon!

We stopped at a little western theme park place for a cache. Saw this pretty horse.

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We headed home and right now forget what we had for lunch or dinner, perhaps pizza! LOL

We did stop at the cemetery on the way home and grabbed a cache.

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I remember we did stop in Smyrna, DE for a multi cache and were pleasantly surprised how cute the town is. The first part of the cache was at the opera house there!

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So we always have a few days filled to the brim. We just did that for a day trip on the 6th of July, but we went to the Cape May to Ocean City, NJ area. That will be another day.