Philly

This past weekend we decided to make a little day trip up to Philadelphia. We've been wanting to go back since visiting last year, and finally got around to it. It's actually a really nice little drive, just under two hours. Last time we went we saw some of the historical sites, so this time we decided to check out some of the more contemporary spots. We started out with the famous LOVE statue.

It was a little disappointing. Much smaller than we thought it would be (twss).

And, of course, as soon as we got there Teresa had to go to the bathroom. Nora had a blast looking at all the flowers while we were gone.

We were a little surprised by how super friendly and nice everyone in Philadelphia was. We had to go several different places to find T a bathroom, and everyone we interacted with was just so nice and helpful, and even so apologetic if they didn't have one she could use. It was pretty refreshing after being in Baltimore/D.C. area. Of course when we got back to Marc and Nora, a good thirty minutes later, Marc reminded me Philly is called the city of Brotherly Love. Now we know why.

Anyway, after that we drove over to the Museum of Art to see the Rocky statue. Again, not as impressive as we thought it would be. Maybe we have unrealistic expectations of statues?

Then it was lunch time and our girlies were getting a bit tired of being dragged around to look at stuff, so we went in search of a good cheese steak. Last time we were there we had intended to try some places we'd seen on the Food Network, but unfortunately followed the suggestions of one of the guards at the Liberty Bell, and tried a different place instead. We saw something on the Food Network ages ago that said the two best places in Philly were right across the street from each other, and have quite a long standing rivalry going on. We first tried Pat's, and it really wasn't very good. Both of the girls spat out the pieces of meat they'd bitten, and I was starting to think that maybe Philly cheese steak's were just way overrated in general.

But then we went across the street to Geno's.

And oh. my. goodness. did they have a delicious sandwich. Seriously, one of the best sandwiches we've ever had. We were pretty bummed we had wasted stomach space at the other place. Even the girls loved it, they could hardly wait for their turns to get bites in.

Here's the T-bear trying to give it a thumbs up:

Nora was very enthusiastic about the fries, as well.

So, if you're ever in Philadelphia, be sure to get a cheese steak at Geno's.

After that deliciousness, we took the girls to a little play museum place nearby and let them burn off whatever energy they had left for the day. We will for sure have to go back, though, because they had a ton of outdoor play areas that looked so fun, but they didn't open until April 1st, and of course we went on March 30th.

See, I was there, too!

We could probably go to Philly every weekend for a month and not see all the cool, historical stuff there, so hopefully we will be able to go back again before we leave here.