Jocelyn's blog
May. 8, 2008
Philadelphia 3-4 May
Posted in USA Trip
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On Saturday, we packed up and left the Houghtons!! No easy task as we had done some shopping while staying with them... We got on the road and had bad traffic to Philadelphia. There's a toll booth just on the other side of a tunnel in Delaware that banked traffic up for ages. Then there was road work as we got closer to Philly itself. Anyway, we arrived by 1pm and Eunice (another Aussie over here) had lunch on the table for us, which was great. After a quick bite to eat, we headed downtown as Eunice had already booked our tickets for Independence Hall. We were ushered in with a group and a Park Ranger led an introductory session about the Hall and its historical significance. I must say that whether the rangers are leading historical things or are in the wold, we've been very impresed with each one we have come across. (Good choice of profession, Dylan). This guy was just fantastic and if anything, the tour didn't last long enough. After that, we tried to go to the Liberty Bell but the queue was so long, we decided to go to the Visitor's Center and see what else was available. They directed us to Franklin's Market St houses. This was great because these buildings are the original ones Franklin worked in. There's the post office (which he started), the printing office and the newspaper office run by his son in law, all in a row. In the printing office, a park ranger gave a demo of how to ink up and print off a sheet of paper from an old press. We did enjoy that. We then went back to Eunice's for afternoon tea. Mark had had enough at this stage and we still had one and a half hours to get out to our farm stay. We did join Euncie the next day for church at 10th Presbyterian and that was great. We had lunch with her and her cousin before leaving to go back out into the country. |
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