Philly

The day after Sesame Place, we drove just 30 minutes south from our hotel and we were in downtown Philadelphia. Did you know that Philadelphia served as the nation's capital from 1790 - 1800 while Washington, D.C. was under construction? Well, now you do. That's just one of the great tidbits I learned on our little historical tour of the East Coast. Now you can't say I never taught you anything.
Philly's a nice city, now that I've seen it though, I don't really need to go back. We visited the Liberty Bell of course and it was in a really nice little museum. Though I must tell y'all we were there with what felt like every 8th grader in the states of Pennsylvania, NY, and New Jersey. They were everywhere! Anyway, then we visited the National Constitution Center, and Reading Terminal Market (more on this in the upcoming food blog), and we watched some coins being made at the US Mint (we could not take pictures of this). We skipped the Betsy Ross house because there were quite literally 500 8th graders there. It was madness!

Let Freedom Ring!

In front of Independence Hall.
Yes, that's Elmo and he got a tour of Philly too!

National Constitution Center

Cole Jabara, future politician? I sure hope not, but he
is quite charming and manipulative, so you never know.

These bronze men that signed the
Constitution are pretty cool, mom.

Dr. Jabara in a heated debate with one of the signers.