Quick Visit with Old Friends

Great to see Ann Robinson, Jonathan Marx, Eric Poole, and Tricia Freshwater for a few hours in Baltimore at Porter's before they all head in different directions (LA, Atlanta, and Eric and Trish get married and settle in DC).

I was able to see then during my quick trip to Annapolis, Maryland where I stayed at the Loews Hotel in downtown during August 6-10 for a National District Attorney's Association institute on the prosection of sexual assault crimes. It was an excellent class and I was also able to see friends from JASOC and meet some other Air Force JAGs from PACAF. I went to a Baltimore Orioles-Seattle Mariners game at Camden Yards, continuing my tradition of four consecutive years of seeing at least one game there. And the last day I was there, the course ended at 10:45 and my parents and sister came up from Cville to visit with me for the day.

All in all, a brief but wonderful trip. Learned a lot. Spent a lot of time with friends and family. Ate a lot of crab cakes.

Sitting in Greenbelt 3 eating outside at a restaurant watching the rain drive off other customers...we ate Persian, Indian, Thai about 3 times, French, Filipino multiple times, Korean twice, and perhaps a few more I can't remember right now. Great restaurants, and very affordable in Manila.
The Shang Tower where we stayed (the President of the Philippines has one of her primary residences here as well) for 8 days is the second highest building in the picture, the one right in the center of the picture, with a kind of greenish tint. We are standing in Greenbelt 3, one of a series of malls and outdoor eating areas that are in Makati and make the place a wonderful one to visit.
Carrie and I with our friends Mary Lou and Fred, who are our "Guam parents." Fred is a fellow alumnus of UVA Law. Yes, the UVA bond runs all across the world :).
This is a picture from the patio of a restaurant that we ate lunch at on Corregidor (the only restaurant on the island which isn't very big though it housed 13,000 American and Filipino troops during the war) looking across at the Bataan Peninsula.
Carrie and I at the Every Nation Conference in Araneta.

More Pictures from Manila

The American Memorial built by JFK in the 60s on Corregidor.
Ruined American barracks on Corregidor.
Taking the ferry from Manila to Corregidor.
On Corregidor looking across to the Bataan Peninsula.