Wedding Weekend - Philly 2008

Thursday night we meet the family for the rehersal dinner at Dave & Busters near Penns Landing. After eating we went and played the video games, Quinn was given so many tickets by diffrent people around the place he ended up with 1300 so he traded em in for two stuffed animals. After the video games we played pool till 1am, quinn really likes this game and between each game had the balls setup so he could make a practice shot. We were out till 1am, quinn fell asleep in one of the chairs.

Friday morning we wokeup to a blanket of snow somewhere around 3 - 6 inches I'd say. For lunch we went to Jims on South for some Philly Cheessteak. I had to pass on the Whiz part and just get provolone. Just seems odd that its famous for its cheessteak and the cheese is Whiz. It was good. After lunch we walked over to the liberty bell and the original capital buildings accorss from it. The congress house is so small its amazing to compare it to the one in DC that is huge. Friday night was the wedding on the way we drove thru chinatown. All the signs both street and the store signs were in both english and chinneese.

The wedding was a wonderful event, every one looked beutiful. After the ceremony they had apatizers that were amazing, lobster, shrimp, mini pizza, fruit, millions of other little mixes. After suffing your self there we went into the hall where the dancing began. Quinn was out there as soon as he could find someone to dance with. There was also a balcony that looked down on the event so him and taylor would go up and look down at everyone. Dinner again was supurb, and then came desert. It was like being in a pastry shop but you could try whatever you wanted. And boy was it some good stuff. Quinn finally fell asleep while his aunt Linda was holding him, he never slows down until he just crashes. We made it back to the hotel about 1:30am. Very good time.

Saturday we meet for a morning brunch at the hotel to see everyone. After that we headed to see some of the sites. We went to the libery bell again and around some of the other building down there. Saturday night we walked over to a martini bar called the continental, on the top floor was a patio bar mostly inside which was nice. It wasnt too busy at first but picked up by the time we were seatted for dinner. We then went downstairs for dinner and did a pot luck style dinner. So many diffrent things and unexpected things were real good.

Sunday we went to lunch at Genos on 9th, to get there we walked thru the italian market that was interesting. It had a bunch of street vendors from fruit and vegtables to other odd ends. Felt a bit like mexico. We walked by some meat markets and fish markets. Kinda neat to see these types of stores not typical in Phoenix. After lunch we went to the Museum of Art, they had alot of paintings by american artists. We also saw pennsylvania made furniture on display. Upstairs they had dutch and european art. After the museum we went to dinner at a FireHouse restaurant. It had the pool and everything, it was nice and quiet and the food was supurb. I remember now someone mentioning that philly was one the the most overweight cities in the US and I can now see why. Everything tasted wonderful. So after dinner we head out of town and drove across the water to New Jersey so Joe could say we hit another state. We took the coast down and crossed back over near Newark. We then went south and made it to Dover Deleware for the night. Sunday was a gorgeous sunny day today is lookin dreary again. We are headed down deleware accross the bridge into virgina.