Last Full Day of Vacation - "Worth It!"

Another day without pics - sorry!

Woke up this morning and met Julia and Jessie at Reading Terminal market in Philly for brunch. Awesome, awesome, awesome. After Jessie and Ronnie downed foot-long pork sandwiches and Julia and I ate awesome crepes, we hoofed it around Old City and toured Independence Hall. Lots of great historic sites and photo opp's along the way.

After Independence Hall, we took a cab to try cheesesteaks at Pat's and at Geno's. Hands down, we all agreed that Pat's won the battle with a tastier sandwich. After stuffing ourselves with cheesesteak, we hopped back in a cab to go see the art museum (aka, the 'Rocky' stairs). Unfortunately, this cab ride was the equivalent to a coming-off-the-tracks roller coaster ride that made us all thankful to be on solid ground. The cabbie chatted up Ronnie in the front seat while the girls clung to the divider in the back for dear life.

After taking several tourista pics at the Rocky statue and stairs, we headed down to the fountain at Logan Square and then spent some time in the Academy of Natural Science, where we ran around like kids looking at dinosaurs, animal dioramas, and butterflies in the 80-degree, 80% humidity butterfly house. All the walking obviously made us thirsty, so we sought out a happy hour and rested for a while.

Dinner was awesome. Julia picked an Italian BYOB (Mercato) where Ted and friend Bob (hi Bob!) joined, and we had amazing food and drinks. Ronnie was liked especially well by our server, who happened to be a guy. Haha, guess he's just too manly with his newly learned Maine-sea-farin' tendencies and attracts attention from all types.

After a long, relaxing dinner, we hit up Ted's two favorite bars and spent the rest of the evening talking and watching the Phillies beat the Dodgers. The crowd went wild. Very fun. Very cool to be in town for that.

And now we are thankful to be back at the hotel and ready for bed. Tomorrow we head home and bring our magnificent journey to a close, happy to have had the chance to experience it all.

Nitey nite...