Philly

Over the weekend Caroline and I decided to take a day trip to Philly to just see the city and go to Independence Hall and Liberty Bell National Park.

It is a 2 hour drive so we were able to go there in the morning and come back at night, the drive is not bad the long part is getting off this crazy island called Manhattan.

Once we got there we got in line to see the liberty bell, it was really neat to see it up close and the fact that it was not encased made it even cooler.

We both were hungry so we could not go to Philly without having a famous Philly Cheese stake. We went to a place that I had seen on Throw down with Bobby Flay. The place was Tony Luke's, and the cheese steaks were great. Really big and tasty, Caroline could not finish hers and I was not going to attempt to finish it off for here there were just too big.

We headed back to Independence Hall, they give you a reserved ticket time to go through the site so that there are not too many people going through. We took the tour of the complex of buildings that are there and learned about the history and the significance of these buildings. It was a really neat thing to finally see some of the history that I had learned about all of my life. Normally as Americans we don't realize our own history because our history is not very old, but it was so cool to see the birth place of the United States of America and to really get a sense of how amazing that history is. I am a big history buff so this was very exciting for me and so much fun to be where the Declaration of Independence was signed and to actually see a "copy" of it from 1776.

Philly was so much fun, it is a beautiful city and had a really fun vibe about it, we will definitely have to go back again and spent some more time there. It was a good day trip to learn about history and eat some good. It is so nice to get out of Manhattan with all of the running around that goes on here and to slow it down a bit. Hopefully we can go to many of the other great cities on the east coast.

The pictures are of Independence Hall, the room where the Declaration was signed. the senate and house chambers. and the Liberty Bell.

PUG

Since it has been awhile since I put pictures of our dogs up here I though that I would now. As you can see Vader has got a lot bigger than before, he is now taller than Yoda, but not quite as big as Yoda. They both are crazy and have way too much fun chasing and annoying each other.

Met's Game

OK so it has been awhile since the last time that we updated this blog.

Here are some pictures of Caroline and I at a Met's game we were able to go down on the field because it was a special thing that Macy's was doing with the heart association. The game itself was a bit uneventful, but it was fun to be there and we had a good time.