Philadelphia

With some cooler weather lately, without thunderstorms, we decided to take an impromptu trip to Philadelphia a few days ago. The drive is a little over two hours, not bad at all. We got there around lunchtime, so we wandered down the street a ways, happened to catch a brief magic show (in period clothing, of course) in front of Betsy Ross's house, then found a mall and had lunch. Afterwards, we saw the Liberty Bell, toured Betsy Ross's house, then decided to take the duck tour.

If you're not familiar with the duck tours (they have one in Seattle), it is an amphibious vehicle that tours the land, showing you the sights in the city, then goes into the water (in this case, the Delaware River) and shows you some sights there, before returning to dry land. It was pretty cool and we may go back to Baltimore and take the duck tour there.

We also managed a quick viewing of Independence Hall, which used to be the capital of the United States, and saw where Congress used to be housed.

My mom heads home in just a few days. I'm not looking forward to that. Her visit has been so great, we have had so much fun, and it's just going to be hard to go back to being a single-pseudo-parent again. We will only have a couple weeks and then school will start again, so it will be ok.