Sorry for being quite for a while…
You should see these fools in Philadelphia, they see the step of the Philadelphia museum of art and all they see is the ‘steps of rocky’ and running up and down the stairs , jumping, raising their hand and being rocky for a split second. We of course are no wiser then they are, and we have photos of our stupidityJ
After that we actually walked into the museum – which has an impressive arms and armor exhibit, renaissance exhibit with large and details tapestries similar to the ones in the Louvre – Alla likes Monet, which is not my style, van gouge and Cézanne, are not better, Pissarro and Renoir saved that era for me- but I stick with renaissance.
We did the Rodin museum before, which is small but impressive- lots of nude sculptures relating to how inferno and sorrow are related ,through woman (the cause of sin, and all that crap).
We are on our way right now to reading PA, for a wedding of a Ganahian to a keniat – an African themed wedding- never even seen anything like that so it should be interesting and a be a nuce continuation of this weekend. We are passing by a plant resembling an atomic nuclear reactor, which blow out so much smoke, I would have imagined it’s just had a meltdown- but everyone is alive so far, it’s probably just regular pollution.
The thanks giving weekend started in longwood gardens, it’s a botanical garden- but the trees and lit with thousands of lights and it looks remarkable – and in it there is a big conservatory with plant and flowers from around the world, an impressive place- which should be left to watching photos.
Yesterday was spent in the city. Philadelphia down town is older and looks European , with most houses made from red bricks.
We took a duck tour- which is a guided bus which swims! , it goes in the river- the Delaware- which I never knew was even a river- here in phily – is 800 meters wide- they have too much water
A funny guide told us various facts for future trivia, and various stories on the city and it’s history, then went into the water, for a swim.
After wards we went to the US Mint—a money factory- this is where US coins are made, they wouldn’t let us take some home, or take photos- they think 4 billion$ in the building is a reason to rob it, I guess they may be right. A part of the minting process is upset- which is the part which cleans the coin before stamping it with the final drawing, now I am wiser in coin studies, another piece of useless knowledge to have – but bit interesting to know.
We moved on to the oldest inhabited street in the us- a narrow ally, with cobble stones a a nice look but not much more.
Lunch was at ‘zahav’ a fancy schmency Israeli restaurant- which was to schmency for our taste- but great Haloumy (which I can find in supermarkets here) and free desert of something looks like a thin lafa with actual ‘shachar’ chocolate- free since the owner wanted to know how it was, and we said ‘na ’ and ‘ha’- he was curious so we were critical- we tried a Yemenite soup which was flat and Burekas (4$ for 1 small burekas!!!! And not a good one). Yesterday was a food day, and since breakfast in the hotel surprised us by not having Philadelphia cream cheese – we wanted to try something authentic- so here it’s philadephia cheesesteak sandwich- so we went to the most famous place= usually the famous places are not the best- since those are tourists places- but this one had a line of an hour and a half!!! All in 3-4 C freezing cold- I can’t believe I waited this long for a sandwich- so finally I got the steak sandwich – with no cheese- forgot to get that- so cheese less cheese steak sandwich is not that good. So today I made up for it in a street cart just across from the Czech flag- on he main road here all the flags of all countries are displayed, each with the countries name- so we played some flag trivia while walking- that cart was next to the Czech flag- and l like Czech food- so this sandwich- with cheese this time was not disappointing.
Yesterday was black Friday… low bat
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