Weekend in Philly

I’m back from my weekend roadtrip to Philly with the girls!! I had so much fun!! I seriously need to get out more because i really enjoyed the 6 hour car ride too. Saturday we left pretty early in the morning and headed out. We got to our hotel around 4:30. We stayed at the nice Double Tree…and the beds were super comfy! I wanted to take home the pillows and sheets. After check in, we walked to the convention center to get Alice’s number for the marathon and had dinner afterwards.

We got back to the hotel around 7pm, and we were exhausted! The party animals we are were in bed and asleep by like 8pm. I think we were just so tired from the long drive. Not one of us was motivated to go out to a bar….at all!

Sunday, Alice left before 7am to get to the race and Angie and I were gonna meet her at the finish line. We left only about an hour after her, got directions from the woman at the hotel desk and headed towards the finish……Or so we thought.

About 45 minutes into walking around the entire city of Philly we were walking with the “walkers” of the marathon. We passed by mile marker 7.

Oh yeah, totally no where near we needed to be.

We were over by all the Universities.

Walked down frat row.

Every cop we asked had no idea where the finish line was and just kept saying we had a ways to go. I think they thought we were part of the race…yeah…in our jeans with our Dunkin Donuts coffees!

Finally, someone told us the finish line was at the Rocky steps and told us how to get there. So, after an hour of “touring” the city, we finally made it to the finish line. However, we had completely missed Alice!! We were really bummed because that was the whole reason we were there. But after the race we did some sightseeing.

We ran up the Rocky steps:

Found some random gigantic game pieces:

Sorry gamepiece:

Monopoly’s wheelbarrel:

A giant domino:

Saw the Liberty Bell:

Went to the Southside for Philly Cheesesteaks:

Mmmm…Yummy!!

and headed home for our 6 hour drive back:

Yup, all in one day!! I’ve got tons of great pics!! Philly was a great city. Lots of history. Next time, i’d like to do a little more sightseeing but i’m pretty satisfied with what i saw this time.