The Duc Pond

Man am I awful at updating.

This past Saturday (August 7) Amy and I hit Phildadelphia to see some historical sites. This was cool because I’m a big fan of museums and seeing historically significant landmarks. Sites visited include the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, the original Congress building, the first Supreme Court building, the First and Second National Banks, and some other sites I can’t quite remember right now. I never really gave much thought to the Liberty Bell when I was a kid, but now that I am thinking about it, it’s a pretty silly landmark (or artifact or whatever you want to call it). The occasions on which it was rung weren’t all that significant if I remember, so I’m not sure how it got so well-known and popular.

The other buildings, however, were quite cool. The plot of land on which Independence Hall, Congress and the Supreme Court all sat on is pretty small. It’s remarkable that our federal government started there. Really awesome.

Anyway, we ended our evening at a cool Afghan restaurant on Chestnut Street. Amy’s a fan of culinary diversity and I’m glad. It’s good to eat all kinds of stuff. Their food is damn good, so give it a try. Chestnut Street walking towards Penns Landing. There are at least two. It was the next to last one.

The weekend before that we saw the Titanic exhibit at the Franklin Institute. It’s pretty cool in a mega tragic kind of way. Such idiocy and carelessness involved in the sinking. It was cool exhibit, though. Stuff was pretty well preserved in the deep ocean and they had wall of ice shaped like an iceberg you could touch. The bitch of the trip was the public transportation, though. If governments want us to use public transportation more often, they need to make the experience a little less hellish.