We're White and Nerdy

 I saw a groupon for a Segway tour of Annapolis, Maryland, and since that's a place we'd been wanting to go, I bought it.  We signed up to go on our tour in the middle of November since there was a Saturday when the weather was relatively mild.

Annapolis is located right on the water, so those are boats in the harbor you see behind us.

We had a 15-20 minute lesson on how the Segway works, and then we were out on the sidewalks and roads. I like the pictures below because you can see there were lots of pretty fall colors still on the trees.

We were surprised how small the town of Annapolis was, considering it's the capital of Maryland and the US Naval Academy is located there. The dome behind us in the photo below is the Naval Academy Chapel.

 On our city tour we stopped at the Maryland state house, or capital building.  The Governor's mansion was around the corner.

We went past this small liberal arts college, founded in 1696, making it one of the oldest educational institutions in America.

 And we rolled past quite a stretch of the fence around the Naval Academy.

 Yes, the State House again.  I put the one above in because it shows the awesome Maryland state flag. We got off our Segways here and had a break while our guide told us about the buildings around us.

After the hour-long Segway tour, Kent and I had crab cakes for lunch (a Maryland specialty), then walked to the Naval Academy visitor's center and chapel.

 John Paul Jones was popular at the Naval Academy.

  This is the entrance into the chapel, the dome of which I mentioned above.

Here's a view of the inside.

 Now we know that John Paul Jones's crypt is located underneath the US Naval Academy Chapel. Where else would it be?

 We really liked riding the Segways and will definitely be on the lookout for Segway tours of other cities.  Before the end of the tour our guide let us zip around a park as fast as we wanted to go.  It was a blast, so who cares if we looked White and Nerdy??  (Click to see the Weird Al video)