Blogs from Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America - page 5

hi all, Wow...its amazing!!Isnt it how u feel when u have a truly wonderful weekend and some nice time with ur friends??This is exactly how it was for me this weekend!! Destination this time was Philadelphia-Home to History of United States of America.We have been planning for this for last whole week,in a sense it was very well planned.We searched the net extensively to chart out a perfect programme for this one day sightseeing. We first booked a Cab to take us to Wilmington Station.We hit the road quiet early i.e 7.15 am from our apts and reached Wilmington by 7.45.The ticket wondow opened at 8.00 sharp.After booking the return tickets to 30th Steert of Phili (as they call it here).Wilmington has a nice little train station that resembles its appearnce to those filmed in David ... read more

Philly! First stop: Franklion Institute to check out the King Tut exhibit on loan from Egypt. The artifacts were pretty fascinating but some of the things we had hoped to see, such as the headmasks and any of the coffins, weren't there. However, they did have amazingly preserved artifacts on display that were found in Tut's tomb, as well as artifacts discovered in his family members' tombs. Pretty neat! Then we explored the rest of the museum for a quick minute, and off to lunch! We went down to the two competing cheesesteak places in Philly: Gino's and Pat's. We were going to buy one cheesesteak from each place and compare, but our hunger got the better of us and we just ordered from Gino's. It was pretty good, but you really can't help thinking ... read more