Joppa, MD (USA)

[without the kids, I wanted to find something else to do - Kelly told me that she and Emma were going to a birthday party on the east side of Baltimore and asked if I wanted to go - at that point, almost anything sounded good - they picked me up around 1500 and we headed east - Emma and I played the License Plate Game (her first time) and she was a DJ for the car - we arrived in Joppa, Maryland, around 1700 - after a quick stop at the package store, we arrived at her friends's house - they were very nice to me (a complete stranger) and I watched football with the other guys there - the party was actually for a very young child, so Emma was a bit bored - her friend never actually showed up, so she had to hang out with older teenagers (with varying degrees of success) - we stayed very late and eventually moved down the street to a Homewood Suites (with two big bedrooms) - Kelly and I watched the end of the late football game]