Tours from a homeless guy are highly recommended

This past weekend my dad's girlfriend, Debbie, wanted to do something special for my dad's birthday. Since she just had surgery and I still haven't started working, we had plenty of time to plan a nice trip weekend trip to Philadelphia. Matt, Dad, Debbie, Christie, Wade and I all left early Saturday morning, checked into our hotel and then visited the historic district in Philadelphia. We saw the famous bell with a crack in it, Independence Park, Independence Hall, Benjamin Franklin's old house and lots of other things. For lunch we had the only lunch acceptable in Philadelphia, Philly cheesesteaks. For dinner I found a really fun restaurant called the Melting Point, a fondue place where you cook your own dinner. Matt was a little concerned because he doesn't ever cook, but he seemed to do okay. I loved it! After dinner we walked a couple blocks over to Helium comedy club to see Aires Spears. He was actually pretty funny, haven't laughed that much in a while.


On day 2, Matt and I woke up a lot earlier than everyone else and decided to take a walk around the city. We didn't really know where to go, so we headed towards a tall clock tower with a statue of Paul Revere on the top. On the way there we ran into a relatively clean, nice homeless man who struck up a conversation with us. When we asked him a little about our surroundings, he began to give us a tour of city hall. He also showed us where the Masonic Temple was, where part of National Treasure was filmed and the steps that Rocky raced up. That was the best tour I had all weekend. We headed back to the hotel and gave the rest of our group the tour we got from the homeless guy. We headed home right after lunch, which made Matt very happy because on Friday afternoon our new tv was delivered and Matt didn't get a chance to play with it yet.