| Philadelphia: Art, apartments & IKEA |
[11 Jun 2003|07:04pm] |
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I flew back from Philly yesterday after spending the weekend with LC. It's a somewhat scary place. Lots of bad areas. Saturday we drove down in a torrential downpour, leaving way later than planned since I had to go take care of some things at work which took much longer than anticipated. Also LC wanted to take the "scenic route" through NY even though it was pouring rain, which did slow down once we crossed the border. When we arrived at our luxurious Super 8 the only room available was on the highway side so it was a little noisy with traffic, but at that point we both fell dead asleep.
When we finally awoke on Sunday, we inquired about changing our room to the quieter side of the building. Then the first order of business was for LC to finally join the modern era by acquiring a mobile phone. We drove around a bit and then took the train into town and went to the Rodin Museum and a brief run through the Modern & Contemporary Art section of the Philadelphia Art Museum before they closed. We looked for something to do for the evening, but there wasn't much, which ended up being fine with us. Despite not doing much we were very tired and after the train ride and then drive back to the hotel that was about it for the night. We got pizza delivered and went to bed.
Monday was intially going to be a "wander the city" day but it was a little overcast and rainy looking when we got up so LC made some more apartment appointments and we went to look at some places. I like doing this, just like floorplans in apartment guides but more interesting. So it was fun. The first place was not so great and we got stuck talking to this little old lady for way too long. It was mostly my fault for initiating conversation with her, but she was going to a different floor on the elevator and how was I to know she would get out and follow me? The 2nd place was really nice, I liked it a lot. The 3rd wasn't so bad, but it was hard to say since we looked at a 2 bed instead of a "junior" 1-bed, which are laid out differently.
Then we went to IKEA. I like their catalog but didn't want to tempt myself since I have no apartment to furnish. But LC wanted to look at a bed and a desk, so off we went. The store was enormous AND had 3 stories. We parked underneath which scared me since there were all these skinny support beams holding up this massive building above us. We looked at all sorts of neat stuff. I want to buy things!
It was getting late by then, and we hadn't had dinner (we didn't eat nearly enough all weekend) so tried to find a place near our hotel. This brought us to Chickie's and someone's Cafe. It was ok, we got reasonable food at a reasonable price. The smoke all around make me somewhat ill though. After that we went back to the hotel to get some sleep since we had to get up at 5am so I could get to the airport to fly home.
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