All Exits Look The Same: Oh Philadelphia Freedom, Shine on Me I Love You!

When I Think About Philadelphia I Think About:

Philadelphia Trip Highlights:

-it was close to everything

-super comfortable beds

-free bottled water!!

-free wi-fi

Philly Phlash
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Arms & Armor and Modern Art sections were my favorites)
Sitting outside the Museum of Art on the stairs and eating breakfast. The weather was amazing!
The Reading Terminal Market. Nath found the cheesesteak place he was wanting to eat at (George's) and it was soooo good! Other fun things about the market were chocolates shaped as ears, cheesesteaks, etc. and Gadzooks ice cream! Also, really clean bathrooms considering how many people are there.
$5.00 taxi ride from hotel to Chinatown
Meeting new people (and some Philly natives) in line for The Avett Brothers concert. They told us about Scrapple, we told them about Ale-8, hot browns and Grippos.
Paleface and Mo (openers for The Avett Brothers)
THE AVETT BROTHERS!!!!!!!!
Meeting Joe Kwon and Bob Crawford outside of the bus after the show at The Trocadero. Bob gave all of us chocolate chip cookies! yum...

Philadelphia Trip Downers:

The pillow I brought was awful for car naps
Hail and rain storms on the ride there
Nastiest bathroom ever in Maryland. It funked me out so bad that I almost threw up
Philadelphia rush hour traffic
Getting in a wreck right before we got to our hotel (nothing serious, just some idiot scraping up the side of Nath's car)
Crazy expensive parking (hotel didnt include parking)
Being herded together in line at The Trocadero
Standing in place for 4+ hours before The Avett Brothers came out.
Not being able to sleep because my feet were throbbing (note-bring better shoes for next Avetts show)
Rite-Aid's in Pennsylvania not having booze
Not having more time there/having to leave :(

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009