Celebrating Our 37th Anniversary in Philly!

Two weeks ago....off Tom and I went to PA to celebrate our anniversary. Since Pennsylvania is relatively close to Virginia, we've been there a few times before; but we'd never been to downtown Philadelphia! This was a new set of adventures!We walked the downtown streets, saw the Liberty Bell for the first time, toured Independence Hall and the Betsy Ross House, and enjoyed browsing the Benjamin Franklin Museum:Here's the only picture taken of the two of us on our anniversary...surrounded by other tourists visiting the Liberty Bell, too: This photo of a carriage rumbling down the old brick street toward Independence Hall reminded me of being back in Colonial Williamsburg:Here's Independence Hall which we toured after going through security: We took a picture of each other in front of the George Washington stature here in front of the Hall....just in case this one was toppled in the future:

I stood where Abraham Lincoln stood:

Lo and behold...Benjamin Franklin was still walking the streets of Philly...he actually was walking better than I was! Some of old Ben's sayings are quite wise. Here's one of them that was in the museum gift shop. This one is easy to do...'cepting when the U.S. Open is on...zzzz. Any other tennis fans out there? We spent the entire day touring Philly, and I have many more historical pictures I could post that were taken at the Betsy Ross House and inside Independence Hall...and even more from the Benjamin Franklin Museum. We had an enjoyable day!

I will end with this representative picture of the Visitor Center at Valley Forge. We didn't have much time the next morning to do Valley Forge justice and only drove a small portion of the car audio tour. I'm sure Tom and Jonathan would love to come back and visit here one day: We left Valley Forge and found our way to Kennett Square because we had purchased timed entrance tickets for Longwood Gardens, which actually was the main reason for our trip to Pennsylvania.

Jonathan had given me the gift of tickets to Longwood Gardens for Christmas, and this was our first chance to go. He knew I would love this....and I did!

Stay tuned for the next post...flowers, flowers, flowers at Longwood Gardens!

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Comments

[victoria]

So glad you got to go on your special anniversary trip. Look forward to the pictures of Longwood Gardens.

[Carol Blair]

Being born and raised in PA, I was interested in the sign in your first picture -- especially the nickname, "State of Independence." I have never heard of this before. The official nickname of PA is "The Keystone State," because it was the metaphorical keystone of the original 13 colonies-which-became-states. But maybe the nickname has been changed . . .