Another first for me, Baltimore! I had only driven through on a family road trip before so I was excited to see the area. Unfortunately my visit was too short to really sight see downtown or get the chance to try Baltimore crab. I also didn't get to see Liz at Towson because my visit was over the weekend. (Liz was in the HESA program at UConn and advised Alpha Xi for those two years. Now she works in student programming at Towson!) These will be on the top of my to-do list if I go back to Towson next semester.
Some of the colony at ΣΑΕ's event
What I did get the chance to do was attend some other orgs' events and watch halloween movies! When I arrived on campus we headed right to ΣAE's closing ceremony for Paddy Murphy. I had seen it at UConn one year so I actually wasn't surprised by the men carrying a yellow and purple coffin. I also attended ΦΜ's Lion King pageant with the Towson colony. It was entertaining to see the male contestants get up on stage but pageants always get a little inappropriate, and the AEΦs were very good about recognizing this. My favorite activity with them was definitely their Halloween movie sisterhood event. We watched Halloweentown and Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge. I hadn't seen these Disney channel original movies in years and I'm not a fan of scary movies, so they were perfect to get in the Halloween spirit!
Something I didn't know before was that Johns Hopkins is so close to Towson. A friend from UConn is a consultant for ΚΑΘ and is working on expansion there all semester so I got to have dinner with her and her colleague! It was great to spend time with other consultants again and it was so fun to catch up with Aubrey about our experiences and how weird it is to be UConn alumnae. We tried a rotating sushi place called Kyodai in Towson for dinner. It was the second time I had been to a place like it but the fisrt time I actually ate from the conveyer belt. We were all pretty adventurous and the servers were all happy to point out what things were on the belt. It was very good and I liked that each plate only had a few pieces so you could try more things.
Huge pumkin pancake
The next morning a couple of the women I stayed with took me to their favorite breakfast place, First Watch Daytime Cafe. It was pretty busy because it was brunch time on a Sunday but they assured me it was worth it, and it definitely was! I order the seasonal special, the pumpkin pancake breakfast. The pancake was so good. I wish I knew somewhere at home where I could get such good pumpkin pancakes, but then again, trying the local food is one of the best parts about traveling!
Post title from: Good Morning Baltimore from the Hairspray soundtrack. I can sing the entire soundtrack and I love the show/movie but now I know how accurate its depiction of Baltimore is.
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