Philly for the weekend

I went through 400 years of American history in just a weekend. Yes, it can be done because I did it.

I walked through Independence Hall and saw the very room where the Declaration of Independence was not only written, but also signed. And then a quick skip over to a glass hall that housed the cracked Liberty Bell. Cart wheels across the road and I was standing alongside Benjamin Franklin's grave. A quick bolt up the road (after grabbing a grande breve vanilla latte) I ended up outside the house of one Betsy Ross.

Who's Betsy, you ask? She was a seamstress who sewed up the very first American flag. Now that in itself is a crazy dangerous thing for this young lass to have done. Why? Because British troops were sweeping through through the city like a fine tooth comb through thinning hair and if they had caught Betsy, she would be in very big trouble for cohorting with the 'enemy'.

Then, of course, I had to have a 'scratch my head' moment. A couple who had just got married decided to have photos taken downtown. But not just downtown, they were striking all sorts of poses - on the island in the road!!! Bizarre.

Yes, what a great weekend, in a wonderful city.