Monday, November 5, 2012

Philly

We are in the home stretch of our Pennsylvania adventure and another weekend trip we have been wanting to do was to have a Philly weekend- last weekend- pre-hurricane. Saturday we got the chance to go to another awesome Children's Museum- the Please Touch Museum and afterwards we went to the King of Prussia Mall. I'd never heard of it but it is the biggest mall in the US in terms of retail space. It was ginormous and filled with way too much stuff! We actually got to the mall, ordered Cheesecake Factory to go, went to H&M for 5 minutes and the Disney Store for 10, got our food and left... Sunday we walked around the old town Philly and did some historical sightseeing! 
A Mother Goose type themed area

An Alice in Wonderland themed area

Grocery store---- Finn LOVES play areas like this.
Maybe I go grocery shopping a little too much?
At least he likes it!

Daddy helping Finn check out.

They had a really big carousel.

Sawyer went for a spin too.

A hilarious picture (a little confusing with the boy's hand... he did that RIGHT as I took the picture).
The museum had a huge (understatement) water table (which definitely could have eaten Indy's CM's water table). It had these blowers you could spin around to point at your boat and blow it across the water. Finn loved to blow it at his face:)

The museum was very cool and Finn had a lot of fun. It may have been more modernized and updated than Indy's Children's Museum but I will always prefer Indy's. It's like a second home to us:)

The Liberty Bell!
(Finn did not enjoy all the reading to be done and historical artifacts in this museum...)

Benjamin Franklin's grave

Christ Church, the birthplace of the American Episcopal Church, is where George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross all attended.

On Elfreth's Alley, one of the oldest residential streets in the country dating back to 1702.

A look down the tiny alley.

Christ Church steeple

The boys next to Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were debated and signed. 


George Washington's presidential house

Finn at the gift shop:)


Micah running the Rocky steps (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Eye of the Tiger.