Saturday, July 3, 2010

Chillin’ out maxin’, and relaxin’ all cool (Road Trip Day 2)

Where:  Philadelphia, PA to Valley Forge, PA to Milford, CT
How far: 194 miles (486 cumulative)
How long: 3 hours and 51 minutes (9:28 cumulative)

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We spent the morning taking an audio tour of historic Philadelphia.  The tour took us to some interesting sites such as Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed,

and the famous Liberty Bell:

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Here’s Calvin’s funny face.

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And his awesome shades.

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After the tour of downtown, we walked over to Jim’s Steaks, voted the best cheesesteak in Philly.  Unfortunately, Jim’s had a line out the door and down the block.  It was over an hour wait, so we tried one of the other ubiquitous cheesesteak joints in town:

After that, it was off to Valley Forge where George Washington and his troops camped for the winter of 1778.  Calvin met the former president himself and also posed for a pic.

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This evening we drove to Milford, CT (Outside of New Haven).

1 comment:

larra said...

Chillin out maxin, relaxin all cool, I was shootin some bball outside of the school. Steph, I don't know if you remember this..but when we first moved in together in the brick house, we had the Fresh Prince song on our answering machine. Random, I know.

Calvin is PRECIOUS by the way!