October 26, 2003
Road Trip - Day 22: Sunday in Philly
Today we started with a quick parasail over the Delaware River, scaling a high-rise in the center of town, hiking through the slums---well, not exactly! Actually we had a very s-l-o-w day, lounging around until early afternoon--with a few brief interruptions required in order to take care of the laundry. Joel has struck up quite a relationship with the staff of the hotel, (in true Joel fashion), so they allowed us to do our laundry in their washer and dryer today. (It's not what you know....)
After finishing the laundry, we decided to drive to a "better" part of town to get some lunch and maybe find a park we could take the kids (and Socrates) to so they could burn off a little steam. Unfortunately, the directions Joel got were rather bad--of course it wasn't that he didn't follow them properly!--so it ended up taking us quite a while to locate a decent area in which to eat. Zach was the star of the day for spotting an Olive Garden restaurant. Of course, by the time he spotted it we had driven past it and even though we were able to turn around, we still ended up in the wrong lane of traffic and couldn't get to it. What's that saying, Ro? You can't get there from here.... So after driving around for another fifteen minutes or so, we did eventually find our way into the parking lot of the Olive Garden. Even though it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon, there was a 25 minute wait... (Never mind that we hadn't had food since 7 o'clock this morning!!!) Go figure. It must've been the only decent restaurant in a 10 mile radius.
By the time we got seated, got served (which took another 45 minutes or so...Yikes!), ate, and paid, it was time to head back to the hotel. Since we have a really full day tomorrow we decided to get a jump on packing, loading, and our schoolwork. We actually found the express route back to the hotel (yay!) and got busy. We caught up on our reading, finishing the Lincoln Photobiography book, and almost catching up on Across Five Aprils. Jenna did some work on her journal and spelling, and Zach and Joel worked on his math, assessing and correcting his work from last week.
Then once all the work was done, we played a few rounds of The Scrambled States of America, a very fun card game to help us learn about these great United States of America, the state capitals, locations, and nicknames. Zach won the first two rounds, and yours truly won the final round. I think this will be a great way to help Jenna learn about the 50 states.
By the time we wrapped up the last round it was time for the kids to go to bed. The younger kids, that is. Joel spent the next couple of hours playing his interactive Star Wars game while I planned some schoolwork for the week and channel surfed. (Television really stinks these days!)
Anyway, that brings us up to date. Tomorrow we head for Hershey, PA and the chocolate factory to make Willy Wonka turn green. Then the plan is to end up in Harrisburg, PA, the capital of Pennsylvania.
Hopefully we can get there from here... ;-)
Posted by at October 26, 2003 10:18 PM
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Very good reading. Peace until next time.
WaltDe
Posted by: WaltDe | August 31, 2006 09:18 PM