Vacation 2011: Philadelphia

One of the things that Donald and I were looking forward to was going to Philadelphia with Jackie and Jared for two days! Sunday after church we loaded up and hit the road! We stayed in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and drove to Philly early the next morning!

We got there and checked into our hotel and then we went looking for somewhere to eat dinner.  We had picked an Italian restaurant from a bunch of menus that we got from the lobby.  However when we arrived there it was a little, whats the best word, sketch! I am sure it was a good place to eat, but we were a little nervous! So we happened upon another local place to eat that look a little more established- The Cherry Hill Diner! It was very good!

Monday morning we woke up bright and early and made our way to Philly for our first, and most important, stop of the day, which also happens to be the whole reason for the trip- the Rocky Balboa statue and steps! (Now I know those steps are not actually "the Rocky steps", but to two Rocky Balboa loving boys, they are!)

Now it was about this time that the batteries in my camera began to die.  So, my camera never actually took any pictures of them running up the steps, but thankfully Jackie's did and I just stole them from her Facebook page! Ha! (Thanks Jackie!) Thankfully we were able to get batteries at the gift shop so my camera wasn't out for too long!

After the steps we walk over to see a statue of Abraham Lincoln (Jared's favorite President).

He was in awe!

We then made our over to the Historical district where we got to see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall.

Independence Hall

But most importantly we found pretzel carts! They were amazingly good and worth all $0.50! That's right they were only $0.50 each! We stopped at the same cart when we got there and then again when we left!

Overall we had a GREAT trip and a GREAT time visiting with Jackie and Jared!