Saturday adventure

In honor of having Saturday completely free, Molly, Joe, Chris, and I took the train to center city and wandered around on South Street. South Street is a pretty famous part of Philly, being a street lined with shops and restaurants for every punk, hippie, emo, and weekend adventurer that happens to find themselves there. Here's a cool picture of some of the mosaics that we saw:

The mosaics were at the western end of South street, several blocks away from some of the cooler shops. I took a picture of one in particular that I thought looked cool (from the outside):

Chris, who knows exactly where everything is in this part of town, eventually took us to St. Peter's Episcopal Church (the place he likes to go to do his devotions), and we got a quick tour of the inside, and let me just say...very cool. George Washington went to church there occassionally, and we ended up sitting in the box he would occupy while an incredibly friendly historian told us all about the church and its history. This is my favorite part:

Well, if you know anything about me at all, you probably know that I really like history, so we split up at the church. Molly and Joe went back to South Street, and Chris directed me to the historic district (about four blocks north of this church), where he and I split up. I wandered down to Penn's Landing (which is unfortunately unremarkable), and then over to the street where Ben Franklin's house used to stand, then to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell:

The alley to the site of Ben Franklin's house (which is no longer there)

Independence Hall

The Liberty Bell

Molly and Joe decided to stay downtown for some show, but Chris and I headed back. It was a long day of walking. I'm pretty exhausted from walking somewhere around 4 miles...? I'm definitely going back down there sometime before we leave. I feel like I only saw a tiny fraction of what I could see, and I'm pretty fortunate to have a few good guides in the house. Anyway, I'll talk to you soon.