Philadelphia

This morning we started a little late. We parked in downtown Philadelphia and made breakfast got dressed ect... Then walked around the corner to a little coffee shop and got some coffee :)

We just started walking down the street when two guys came up to us at the same time trying to sell us two different bus tours. They were competing for our attention and trying to tell us why their tour was better. The cost for the tour started out $27 for each of us but they tried to beat each other with their prices so we ended up paying $20 for all three of us. It was really hard to turn one of them down, but we got a great deal and the tour was really good. We sat right behind the tour guide on the top of a double decker bus. She was really good at her job and made the whole tour interesting, light-hearted and fun.

For lunch we had some Cheese steak sandwiches. That was really yummy :)

It was so interesting to see old historic and unique architecture right next to very modern looking skyscrapers. Every street was totally different.

We went to a huge museum that was dedicated to Benjamin Franklin. Drew and I went through this really in depth spy exhibit. There was so much information in there we could have spent an entire day looking at all the cool gadgets and reading up on spy history. I was sad we had to miss so much of it as it got late. We also saw a short presentation in a big planetarium about astronomy. There were other sections we saw, but these ones were by far our favorite.

We were too late getting back into town after the museum to tour the inside of most of the historical sites, which was disappointing. However, we had a really fun day and got to see a lot of other cool things.

For dinner we met up with an old friend of my mom's along with her husband. They drove two and a half hours to see us. Mrs. Rosner was in my mom's wedding. Mr. Rosner had some really good questions for us. He asked mom and Mrs. Rosner what advice they would give to themselves at age 19 knowing what they do now, and he asked Drew and I what we imagined when we get old we would tell ourselves now. Then he bought dinner for us. They were both so sweet and we had a really fun time together.

Tonight we are going to try and reach Baltimore and stay with the Bulls. Our estimated time of arrival is 11:30pm at this point.