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Your best bet is to park at the inlet, spend a few hours on the beach, then stroll the boardwalk.  Be sure to get some Fishers Popcorn and Candy Kitchen salt water taffy to take home with you.

Also try Thrasher's French Fries, Harrisons Harbor Watch's cream of Crab soup and try your chances at the arcades on the boardwalk.

While on the boardwalk, there will be plenty of stores to shop in as well.

Beach weather can change frequently and quickly....I usually start checking the weather a week before I come on www.weather.com with the understanding that the forecast can and will change a bunch of times before I actually get there.  If they are calling for especially hot and humid temps, that can be a recipe for an afternoon storm.  Upon arrival, every place I have ever stayed in OC has had access to the weather channel on cable TV and you can get your weather reports daily.

We saw a nice gold ring found this summer... and lots of quarters.

The only toll you will pay is on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. For passanger cars the toll is $4.00. You only pay a toll when headed east on the bridge. Their is no toll when coming west.

Check traffic on the bridge before you leave by calling 1.877.BAYSPAN.

Please note that many areas are scoured by people with metal detectors and they keep what they find.

You can also purchase low price chairs and umbrellas at Sunsations and Roses.

first of all, congratulations!  There are no special parking areas for pregnant people unless you have a handicap sticker, but parking is plentiful and it is easy to drop one off if the parking lot is crowded.

As stated, getting to OC is your problem and you could take a bus from BWI to OC and once in OC, you have the local bus to get you around and for Delaware, DART www.dartfirststate.com

I would not recommend OC for spring break if you are looking for a Florida/Caribbean style vacation.  The water and beach are way to cold for swimming and/or tanning.  There will only be handful of boardwalk stores open and only about 1/3 of the restaurants/bars are open.  Getting around would also be hard since there are fewer public transportation options in the Spring. 

My advice is to plan a bomb-diddily vacation once you graduate in May/June.  By then OC is a fun, happinging place with lots to do.

The tour boats and amusements will be closed, but mini golf and the boardwalk shops will be open. We go every year for Thanksgiving week and find plenty to do. We often go bowling or see a movie when we are down there at this time of year. Some other fun things to do that are off the beaten path:

Take one or both of the two self guided walking tours of historic properties in OC.

Got to Assateague to see the horses. Be sure to stop at the Visitor's Center.

Checkout the Delmarva Discovery Museum.

Go to the Salisbury Zoo - it's free!

Do some shopping at the interesting shops in nearby Berlin.

If you like World War II history, visit Fort Miles - it is about 35 miles away at the mouth of the Delware Bay in Lewis, DE. They have restored some of the coastal defenses and you can go up in one of the towers and get a great view of the ocean and the bay.

Have a great trip to OC in November!