Blogs from Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America - page 4

5am (first morning after UArts finals) Get up, eat breakfast, put on HUGE white dress, hair and makeup (including LOTS of glitter), grab phone and wallet, walk to hotel/meeting place. Gig: Performance Promotion for Circus De Sol: KOOZA. Two fourteen hour days of street performing and show promotion. Is this my life? Is this the joy of being an independent contractor? ..........I couldn't be more thrilled. It was exhausting but an amazing first post college job.... read more

So I've decided that I'm going to spend this summer exploring the rest of the world (or as far as my railroad employee pass will take me). I'll have to look up the Phillies away schedule to see when they're playing in New York and DC. I might even plan a trip up to Boston to catch a Red Sox game since they're nice enough to come down here and play an interleague series with us. Also, I'm going to start visiting places around Philadelphia more often so travelers have an idea of what they should see when they come here. Museums, landmarks, concert halls, stuff like that. Hopefully that will start generating more interest in this city and people will look at us more than NYC's older but smaller brother that still finds ways to ... read more

Only 9 more days until beverly and i leave for Europe... Can not tell you how excited I am.. everyday beverly and i are calling each other just to make sure we dont forget anything, or we are giving each other ideas on what to do and see .... Sooooooo surreal... Anyways... only changes in itinerary are that we are no longer staying on the ship in Amsterdam, instead we are staying at a hotel right in the center of the city which should be good in order to get to all the places in a short amount of time everyday... Paris changes are only that we will be takin a seine river cruise/dinner and a show at the moulin rouge one night... Barcelona, we are stayin in our own apartment... and will be tking a ... read more

Make myself available to enjoy cultural activities in the tri-states area. April weather is nice and why not joining others to check out the Cherry Blossom Festival activities being offered every year here in the city of Philadelphia. Philadelphia is home to some 2000 Japanese cherry trees (sakura), half of which were a gift from the Japanese government in 1926 in honor of the 150th anniversary of American independence, with the other half planted by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia between 1998 and 2007. Within Fairmount Park in Philadelphia and along the Schuylkill river, in late March early April, it is a good time to take a stroll and enjoy the beauty of the flower. In this year' event, on Monday, in the early evening, the second day of 2-weeks long event, taiko drum ... read more

Here iam ...One More time! First weekend, on my 4th visit to US.Where to go, was the question in my mind, when my visit was confirmed 2 weeks back. I clearly had 2options. one Phili and second Atlantic City. I shared my plans with Lawrence immediatly on arrival. he was ok with both. So then we decided to make some homework from our apartments. We had 1 day in our hands. After making calls to SEPTA & Greyhound, we freezed on Phili. Reason - We didnt had good bus schedules for Atlantic City. We booked the cab saturday morning & quickly went to sleep. Next morning I got up a little late.The bus was scheduled at 1.20 from Wilmington. We had some good breakfast & reach Wilmington at around 12 noon. SEPTA was closed due to ... read more