Charming North East, Maryland
@DeborahDiane (40848)
Laguna Woods, California
September 2, 2018 5:46pm CST
While we were visiting our daughter and her family who live in Delaware, we went to dinner one evening in the charming town of North East, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. The name of the restaurant was Woody's and our dinner consisted of generous portions of lobster, crab, crab claws, calamari, and other types of seafood. It was wonderful!
The town also had a couple of antique stores and our daughter purchased a darling marble-topped side table for her living room.
I also discovered a sweet little non-profit store (pictured above) which sold jewelry which had been donated by department stores. I was pleased to learn that 100 percent of the proceeds from the sales went to charities to help animals. Ellen DeGeneris has paid the rent for the shop for the next ten years and it is operated by volunteers, so all the proceeds are pure profit. Since we were in Maryland, I purchased a blue crab necklace and matching earrings.
It was a fun outing and my little grandsons seemed to enjoy their evening in the town, too. Our daughter even let her four-year old pick out a small antique sign to hang in his bedroom and, of course, we ended the evening with ice cream cones at a shop next to the restaurant.
We had a great time!
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@RasmaSandra (98027)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Sep 18
Sounds like a very charming place to visit and I really love seafood so I would like to see it.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
3 Sep 18
@RasmaSandra - Since you live in Daytona Beach, I'm sure you get to enjoy seafood regularly, too!
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@RasmaSandra (98027)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Sep 18
@DeborahDiane not unless I order it when I get groceries. A bit too expensive to have all the time.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
6 Sep 18
@RasmaSandra - Yes, it is too expensive to have all the time. Plus, we would get tired of it!
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
3 Sep 18
@JudyEv - The seafood was wonderful and, even with all of us there, we had some left over for our daughter and son-in-law to take home. We loved it!
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
3 Sep 18
@marlina - It was delightful. We had a great evening!
@LadyDuck (502653)
• Italy
4 Sep 18
@DeborahDiane If you consider that they deduct the donations from the taxes it's even not a cost for them.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
4 Sep 18
@LadyDuck - I agree. Wouldn't it be nice if more wealthy people looked for ways to help people and animals? They could do so much good!
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
5 Sep 18
@LadyDuck - You are absolutely right. I really enjoyed buying myself a little jewelry in the shop and felt good about it, too.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
3 Sep 18
@RubyHawk - I was delighted when I discovered the shop. I also thought it was wonderful that Ellen DeGeneris pays their rent. What a wonderful contribution she is making!
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
4 Sep 18
@RubyHawk - I love these types of shopping areas, too. Unlike the typical mall, in these places you never know what treasures you might find!
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
4 Sep 18
@DeborahDiane That's very thoughtful of her.She is helping where it's needed. I love small antiques shops, and junk stores.
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@oahuwriter (26773)
• United States
5 Sep 18
Sounds like you had a great day! Wonderful news about the store that helps animals!
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
5 Sep 18
@oahuwriter - Yes, we had a wonderful time in this cute little town.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
8 Sep 18
@oahuwriter - We were delighted by the town and our daughter loved antique shopping there.
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@oahuwriter (26773)
• United States
7 Sep 18
@DeborahDiane
The little town has so much beautifully kept older buildings.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
3 Sep 18
@jstory07 - I was delighted when I found out the purpose of the shop. At first, I had not planned to buy anything. But when I found out how the money would be used, I was happy to buy something!
@sallypup (69206)
• Centralia, Washington
4 Sep 18
@DeborahDiane I'd have a hard time leaving that shop! Years ago I went in a similar shop- they had two adorable adoptable kittens in a cage in the corner- I didn't need a little bowl but I bought one anyway at a pretty high price cause I knew the money would help them.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
4 Sep 18
@sallypup - Yes, that is exactly how I felt. Their prices were actually reasonable, but I was determined to buy something, simply because I wanted to help the store!
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
4 Sep 18
@sallypup - There were all types of items which department stores had donated ... jewelry, purses, and different odds and ends.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
8 Sep 18
@DianneN - Ha ha! I understand! When we moved from Texas to California, we also had to drive our cars and some of our personal belongings across country. The worst part was when we towed our boat across country and gave it to one of our adult daughters, who was much more likely to use it than we were. Towing a boat really slowed us down and, when we hit the traffic in LA, it almost drove us crazy!
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
5 Sep 18
@DianneN - My husband and I fly now when we go any long distance. The days of long, multi-day road trips are in our past. It is much easier on my husband, in particular, to just fly and rent a car or, when we visit our daughter, have a car and driver take us to her home.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
7 Sep 18
@DeborahDiane We also use drivers to pick us up and drive us to airports and always rent cars when we travel within the US. We drove our first three years back and forth to Florida, because we moved many of our extra belongings to our empty condo. We stopped driving the year we wound up buying two cars in Florida. One was too small, so we had it shipped home. I'm so glad we did, because it is the perfect little convertible for summer driving. Now we have 3 cars in CT and 1 in Florida. Something is wrong with the math. 
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
4 Sep 18
@just4him - I was thrilled to find this store. I just wrote another post which tells a little more about it and shows the jewelry I bought.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Sep 18
@DeborahDiane I'm glad it was a good find for you.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
5 Oct 18
@DeborahDiane
That is great. Ellen is very good at causes and she loves animals. That is so great donating to charities.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
6 Oct 18
@Hannihar - Yes, Ellen is very thoughtful about donating to charities. I'm so glad she is helping this town and several animal charities by donating the rent for this shop.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
7 Oct 18
@DeborahDiane
I like Ellen and she is very special and has the means to be able to do these things. I am glad she puts her means to good use or good causes.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
17 Sep 18
@porwest - If you live in that corner of the US, you might enjoy visiting it. It is small, but we had a fun visit to the town!
