My brother recently proposed to his now fiancé (read about their proposal here). Yates has always been the super-adventurous type who loves to travel. He's the type of guy that will go to Paris, Las Vegas, Europe, wherever - by himself. Who does that? He will plan an itinerary and travel all on his own - finding his way around a new country/place (and love every minute of it). He will meet meet friends along the way and hang out with people who were strangers on the other side of the world just days before. I really admire him for this. If you dropped me off in a foreign place by myself; I think I would consider it my worst nightmare. Me? Alone? Foreign Place? no thanks. TOO far out of my comfort zone. Then again - RALEIGH- was my comfort zone before the Lord showed me the husband he hand-crafted for me and told me the deal was - I.would.have.to.move.to.Maryland. THAT's a post for another time.
Anywhoooooo. (Man, this post is already longer than I'd though I'd last typing). Yates has been saying for the past few months that he wants to take Kara to Philly and that we should all 4 take a trip there together (since it's only 2 hours from us). So, MONDAY, literally one week ago friends - Yates texts me and says "we're free this weekend! what are yall doing? we can come up fri-sunday to MD and take a day trip to saturday to philly together). My immediate reaction (in my mind) was "you mean like Friday. as in THIS Friday. as in 4 days away? yeah RIGHT! I need more planning than that!" But then it dawned on me. We had ZERO plans (never happens), John wasn't on call, I wasn't on call with work - and Yates and Kara were free. SOUNDS LIKE A PERFECT time to me, I said!
So, they came up for a last minute trip on Friday (got in at 1:15 am; bless their hearts) and stayed until Sunday afternoon. Shout out to Yates and Kara for coming 7+ hours to visit us from Charlotte (without being able to take off a day or 1/2 day of work). Means SO much to us that you would travel this far for such a short trip.
Anywho - we woke up early Saturday morning, had muffins and coffee at the house and hit the road. We made it to Philly around 10am and immediately hopped on a double decker tour trolley that took us on an hour and a half tour of Philly - we saw BEAUTIFUL places and the sun paired with the breeze was just perfect for a day in Philly. Of course we ate a BIG FAT philly cheesesteak for lunch and hit some more hot spots in the afternoon.
Enjoy the lovely photo-dump from our pictures we took; I didn't feel like lugging my heavy camera around so they are all iPhone pictures (sorry about that).
Thanks for walking with us,
JL
what happens in philly.....stays in philly...
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