Spring Break 2015 - Philadelphia

Our last stop on the spring break journey was Philadelphia. We flew from Salt Lake to DC, then rented a car and drove to Philadelphia stopping in Maryland to site see on the way. Philly is a place I have been to many times. With my dad working there I have had a chance to go out and visit quite frequently, but I still look forward to going every time and I always manage to see something new. 

We got to Philadelphia around eight on Monday night, then picked my dad up to go get steak sandwiches while we still had a car. We went and ate them in his office that overlooked and walked around downtown a little bit.

Saturday we spent the morning walking around outside where he lives which is across the street from the new temple. His apartment overlooks it, so you get a great view of the entire thing. Then my dad met up with us for lunch at our favorite little diner type place there called Sabrina's and then we headed to look at the down town historical monuments for the 153rd time. 

This time visiting the monuments was unique because we had a chance to go upstairs in City Hall. The tour guide said they usually only pick one week out of the year to open the upstairs and that it was basically a once in a lifetime experience. So that pretty much made it worth it to go take the tour again. 

This is the blue staircase that leads to upstairs, also seen in National Treasure

 The room where they signed the Declaration of Independence

This is from the ballroom upstairs

The Liberty Bell

After touring the Liberty Bell my dad left us to go back to work so we walked around down town again and stopped into Reading Terminal to pick up some cookies. By that point we were so exhausted and didn't want to make the 10 minute walk it would take to get back to the apartment to come back an hour later so we walked into a Marriott and found a sitting area and took a nap in there, which at that point was incredible. Then we moved on to wait outside the theater so we could get tickets to Annie, which we greatly enjoyed that night. I had seen it before in New York but my dad hadn't so it was fun to watch it with him. After that we got back to his apartment late that night and woke back up at four in the morning to return home to the great Salt Lake City. Overall I would say it was a pretty great spring break trip.