Gary Sisson

Olivia and Lauren

 

Gary Sisson is a Floyd Wickman trainer and one of my mentors. We met early in my career after I took the Sweathogs program, and have stayed good friends throughout the years. Gary called to say he was on his way to New Jersey visiting family, and would be coming through Baltimore on his way back home to North Carolina. We made plans to have lunch on his way home.

 Lee and I would meet them at a favorite restaurant, the Bay Café in Baltimore,Maryland.

This is not a first for us..take a look You Can Get There From Here...Baltimore's Bay Café  

It was a perfect day  for us to have lunch at the Bay Café with Gary, his wife Lauren, and their lovely daughter, Olivia. The bar and restaurant has multiple levels, but we took a table outside and right on the water.

Bay Cafe landscaping

Yellow hibiscus Bay Café is also known as Baltimore's Best Beach and with good reason.

When you walk from the parking lot it feels as if you've been transported to the tropics!

 Look how they have made this feel like an island beach with gorgeous plants, lots of palms and flowering hibiscus.

Even the chalkboard of special events had a tropical feel, thanks to a couple of talented artists who work at the Café.

A Bit of Paradise...Good Friends at The Bay Café in Baltimore, Maryland

Bay Cafe multilevel Bay Cafe bar

chalkboard artists

Chalkboard

It was so pleasant sitting by the water, with good friends and good food. We enjoyed the superb shrimp salad, crab cakes, pizza and curly fries. In fact, we got so wrapped up in our conversation and feeding the birds that I forgot to photograph the food! But we have proof that the birds enjoyed the fries.

Can you help me find a new home with a larger pantry? This fry is good...what else do you have?

 

What else would you want for paradise but good friends, good food, and good conversation?

A Bit of Paradise...Good Friends at The Bay Café in Baltimore, Maryland

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17 Comments on A Bit of Paradise…Good Friends at The Bay Café in Baltimore, Maryland

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362,457 Points 9 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

It's always nice sharing time with friends.  Glad you got some time for R & R>

4:20pm • #1
279,678 Points 29 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

How fun to see old friends and enjoy a delicious meal in such a beautiful environment too!  I hope we can have lunch together some day too as we aren't too far apart.

4:55pm • #2
360,588 Points 38 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Joan, I can always make time for such special friends!


Diane, Any plans for coming up to Baltimore? Would love to meet you! Really enjoying your blog series.

5:10pm • #3
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Margaret--I will have to check out The Bay Cafe next time I am in Baltimore.  Sounds good!

7:49pm • #4
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Mary, Let me know when you will be in Baltimore...would like to meet you.

8:10pm • #5
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Very nice blog Margaret - it sure looks like a bit of Paradise there.  ANd the birds seem to know that too!

9:43pm • #6
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April, We really had fun with our friends and the birds.

9:54pm • #7
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Margaret--that's a deal and the invitation extends west, too.  Erie is only 100 miles from Pittsburgh, Cleveland or Buffalo.

5:49am • #8
351,197 Points 3 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Hey Margaret...the flowers looked as though you had been on vacation or transported your practice to warmer weather....looks like a great place to enjoy well deserved time off ...just do it !

7:05am • #9
360,588 Points 38 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

This place makes you feel like vacation. At night, it is packed with people and music. We only go for lunch..like the quiet.

9:26am • #10
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Mary, Maybe we can plan a get together and meet somewhere in between.

9:34am • #11
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Where is the Bay Cafe?  It looks wonderful and made me hungry for crab soup and shrimp salad and I just finished a great dinner!!!  You have become my official Baltimore "fix" and it was great talking to you the other day.

8:02pm • #12
360,588 Points 38 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

 Chris, Here are directions. Let me know when to expect you!

From 95 North:
Follow 95 South toward Baltimore. (9.29 miles) Take the O'DONNELL ST EAST exit- EXIT 57- toward BOSTON ST. (0.78 miles) Stay STRAIGHT to go onto INTERSTATE AVE. (0.41 miles) Stay STRAIGHT to go onto BOSTON ST. (1.21 miles) Make a u-turn at S KENWOOD AVE onto BOSTON ST. (0.02 miles) End at Bay Cafe

8:53pm • #13
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What else could I want, you ask?  Well, the breakfast buffet would be a good start!  ;)  Wonderful post.

7:36pm • #14
360,588 Points 38 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Angela, You may be right. We have never gone for the breakfast buffet..but it sounds like a good idea.

7:53pm • #15
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So what you're telling me is that the fries were so bad that you didn't eat them and gave them to the birds instead? LOL

5:02am • #16
360,588 Points 38 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Those curly fries are awesome but it was fun feeding the birds. Looking at those last two photos, could have come up with some more entries for your contest.

3:43pm • #17

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