Takes a bit to upload..I Love this video..and well, I will never look at doing all of our laundry here at the B&B in quite the same way ever again..

When is Spring Getting Here...

Yesterday's weather of a sunny 53 degrees certainly spoiled me. I am all ready to get started with planting new flowers in the urns that stand guard on each side of our main entrance.

This morning I got to sleep in since Claudette had the help of an aspiring innkeeper (Elly is her name). They served a extra yummy Tomato & Zucchini Frittata, as pictured here. When the guests were done you could have sworn they licked the plates clean. And that is not even counting the gobs of pastry everyone enjoyed :)

Today's agenda is creating the new Spring Newsletter. Our newsletters are filled with coming events and attractions, recipes, news, and other special tidbits. You can receive it by emailing us your request to be added to our email listing.

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Hope you are having a great weekend!

Can you feel it?

Its been snowy most of the day. But even the cold cannot put a damper on the huge amount of excitement in the B&B today!

We are filled with people who have traveled to see tomorrow's historic inauguration. We have a couple that have journeyed all the way from Australia, using their one week's worth of paid vacation a year to stay with us and see President-elect Obama become President Obama. They spent over 5 hours on Google looking for accommodations are are thrilled to have found us.

This is just one of the many stories our guests have shared with us.

We are awaiting the arrival of 2 business men from the UK who were traveling on business and have decided to take the time to be witness to history in the making as well.

MSNBC has been showing the huge multitudes of people already gathering on the Washington Mall...and i admit i am both not surprised and at the same time amazed.

I love the energy of hopeful optimism that is in the air...Jeff and I felt it when we were present at the War Memorial downtown to see and here soon to be President Obama speak on a stop on this way to DC. And now, we are absolutely thrilled to have this same positive emotion and energy flowing through our own home due to the many guests who are staying with us to share in this event.

I hope this post finds you in good spirits and that no matter what your political affiliation, you too are looking forward to 2009 as a new beginning on many levels and that together, person to person, human being to human being, brought together out of common decency, respect and love for our fellow man, we can work together to build the great and bright future that is meant to be not just for our country, but for the betterment of the entire world.

And when you need a small break from this energizing and tireless work, you choose to stay with us to unwind and relax! LOL...hows that for a little plug?

Seriously though...i hope that you can feel the love and excitement too.

We are all blessed in our own way...celebrate it! Live your dreams now more than ever! And most importantly, help and support others, your friends, families, loved ones, neighbors... to do the same!

Out of touch no longer...

Things here have been crazed….We had the highest occupancy on record for December, were deeply involved with Yulefest, were one of the stops on Festive Flavors food and Business Tour, Supported Federal Hill Main Street with all of its Holiday Happenings and started the remodel of the Curran Room into the Edgar Allan Poe Suite. I was also interviewed on smallbusinesspodcast.com on how to best utilize TripAdvosor.com for your business. Since we are #1 on TiripAdvisor.com for the whole city, it was an easy and fun interview. That was just the month of December!

Another exciting piece of news is being listed as one of the best accommodations for single women travelers in the Irish Times newspaper. It is a long and very informative article, you can find us in the paragraph about fave places to stay by the lovely lady contributors.

Getting the E.A. Poe Suite finished for guest this past weekend was a bit hectic…soooo much stuff to organize and make flow appropriately, you know us...all of those tiny details had to be perfect. But at last it is done! Thankfully it has turned out better than either Jeff or I could have imagined. The fabrics, bed, select comfort sleep number king sized bed, over scaled mantle, seating area, the list goes on and on of the many things i love about this room. We have been listed in the b paper as one of the best places to celebrate Edgar Allan Poe because of our fantastic new Suite!

Now gearing up for the inauguration, which should be interesting indeed.

Had a last minute cancellation for the inauguration. So had to scramble to find someone to fill it…nearly everyone had given up hope of finding accommodations or had already made other plans...but thankfully and with some help of an inn in DC we did fill it back up. So we are now full from tonight through Tuesday.

We did carve out some time to stand in the cold for a while to see President-elect Obama downtown yesterday. It was very exciting! And the positive energy of hope and excitement for the future was palpable.

Speaking of exciting events, you should check out our new Things To Do page on our website. It now has a calendar listing many of the exciting events occurring throughout the year in the Charm City. You can even select events to show up according to your own unique interests: Performing Arts, Festivals, Museums and/or Sports and Recreation!

We still have many rooms available for February, so if you are looking for a get away before the rates increase in the Spring, now is a great time! February is the month for romance anyway and there is little more romantic than a stay at Scarborough Fair.

I will write more soon!