Combatives Tournament/Baltimore Inner Harbor/Aquarium

Devin had to work at a combatives tournament on a Saturday and I was invited to go along. I didn’t know what was in store but it was pretty fun. I didn’t want to sit in the VIP section and stick out like a sore thumb cause we were there early and I would have been the first to sit down so I chose to sit with a bunch of AIT kids that were in there civilians. That was a bad choice of seats cause they were punks and it was nauseating. The tournament started and I couldn’t see a whole lot but by far my favorite was the girls fights. The first girls that sparred were little and the crowd was screaming for this little short white girl. When they started the fight the white girl took off like a deranged animal and lunged at the black girl, grabbed her by her top and threw her on the ground. It was pretty entertaining. The white girl lost in the end and I thought that made it even better. Devin ended up getting to skip out on PT for a whole week because he did so well working at the tournament. I was happy cause he is so loud at 5:30 in the morning and this meant a week of good sleep.

The same day as the tournament we wanted to go out but somewhere close so we headed to Baltimore to check out the national aquarium. We got cheap tickets through MWR on post. When we got there we realized Saturday was probably the worst day to go, there were people everywhere and lines going all over. It took a while to get in and by then my feet hurt cause for some stupid reason I chose to wear heels. The lines inside were ridiculous; you had to fight your way through crowds to see anything. We saw the sharks and the stingrays but then it was time to find our way out. The way the aquarium is set up though you have to follow the crowd and you cant really just leave so we followed the crowd to the top then made our way down. By then my feet were about to fall off so we found some ice cream and flip flops at a local mall. Devin had been eying the paddleboats, I thought they would be too expensive but they were ridiculously cheap. It was pretty fun, the sun was beating down on us which I wasn’t the biggest fan of because I don’t have sunglasses but it was still fun. We had some good ol cheesecake factory after and then headed home.