March 2006-Baltimore Inner Harbor

The day before National Aquarium, Yu's parents and us visited Baltimore on a cool but sunny day. The photo was taken on Federal Hill that overlooks the Inner Harbor, where in the war of 1812, Americans beat back British attackers. We were leaning on the cannon with conqueror's smile.


There must be several thousand people on the Inner Harbor water front. A juggler put up a show at the water front. Those jugglers, including the one I saw at Maryland Renaissance festival, were excellent artists, not for their juggling, but for their reckless effort to "recruit" audience and ability to keep their attentions all the way through the show, last but not the least, to make them laugh. The guy "borrowed" a young boy to collect money for him. The dollar bills quickly filled up the firefighter's helmet the boy was holding. I was interesting to watch the subtle "push and pull" after the show between the boy's father and the juggler. The juggler was ecstasy about the income and tried to hand a few dollars to the boy, but the father apparently didn't want the boy to get acquainted with money at that early age.