| Philadelphia, again |
[16 Aug 2003|11:18pm] |
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After a crazy week of cleaning and packing and watching LC back, we finally drove down to Philadelphia to LC's new apartment. Unlike that last trip, this time LC isn't driving back a day or two after I flew back. So that's it. LC stays there, I got to Paris and we (hopefully) remain friends. I alternate between it not making a difference to me, to being really sad. I couldn't stop crying Wed after I work up and especially at the airport. Once the plane took off, I read Vanity Fair and sort of forgot. I think I convinced myself that things weren't really changing. I don't know. It really is the right thing to do. Right?
On the other hand the trip itself was nice. We had a good time. It was a lot of work, driving down was very long and tiring and then we had to drag the mattress up. Saturday we unpacked for most of the day then went to IKEA. We were going to have dinner at their restaurant but finished shopping too late for me to try the Swedish meatballs. Sunday was a tired lazy day, we returned the U-haul and did some shopping. Then we got dressed up and went to dinner. The Italian restaurant we were going to go to was closed, so we ended up next door at a Japanese-French place which was a little strange, but nice. With excellent bread.
Monday we went out to Pennsylvania Dutch Country to see the Amish. It amazes me that these are real people, who really live like this, and not actors. It was strange to see the horses and buggys on the same roads as cars. We tried Shoo-fly pie at a little restaurant in Intercourse, PA where a group of 6 Amish came in and sat right near us! We visited the Ephrata Cloister, where a group of celibate Germans lived a life of discipline and sacrifice until the last of their number died out in the early 1800s. Then we headed to Hershey where we visited Chocolate World. We took a ride to learn how chocolate was made.
Tuesday we slept in then drove to the center of Philadelphia and took a duck tour around and into the Delaware River. It was strange, because most of the downtown had no power (before the big blackout in the north) and there were cops on every street directing traffic. When we tried to go to dinner on South Street, most of the restaurants were closed due to lack of power. We ended up at Tangerine which had lots of dim lights and candles and was very good.
Then Wednesday I left.
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