Philly Trip #1

Last week some friends of mine came down for a visit and neither one of them had ever been into Philly!

Well I thought that was a tragedy and immediately set about to fix the situation by planning a day trip while they were visiting. Noah also came along and took most of the photos you are about to see(thanks!).

We first stopped at a cupcakery and then made our way to Macy's to see the famous Christmas Light Show.

It is something right out of a vintage movie!! Also they have a "Dickens Christmas Carole Village" on the 3rd floor. Luckily the wait wasn't long. After that we made a quick stop to one of my favorite stores across the road, West Elm. Now it was time for Lunch and we made our way to the Legendary Reading Terminal. You can buy any type of cuisine from around the world there. The utmost reason for going though was for my friend Ashley to have a cannoli (she had NEVER had one and is Italian in descent!). She and Liz (my other visiting friend) Loved them!!! I knew they would! Then we went and saw the Liberty Bell and tried to get a tour of Independence Hall, but missed getting the tickets. Also there was a Christmas Village Craft show in the "LOVE" park, it is where the famous sculpture is that is reminiscent of Philadelphia being the City of Brotherly Love. We ended up leaving the city early enough that we also drove through the Valley Forge Battle field. In all I think we had a nice day.Soon you will get a new Philly Trip #2 post about our family trip.

We are standing in the very center of the City 

Independence Hall 

The Liberty Bell 

Our Crazy Group!!

Aloha from the Philly Flower Show!

As you can see the theme of the Flower Show this year was Hawaii.

I was really looking forward to lots of Brightly colored flowers and palm trees. I defiantly got the palm trees, but the whole show was lacking very much in the Flower department. In general there just weren't as many flowers as usual. Maybe it was too difficult to try to keep tropical plants alive for an indoor show, but maybe some not so tropical (but brightly colored flowers) would have made it feel more like Hawaii. Don't get me wrong I still thoroughly enjoyed my self! The miniatures and store fronts were excellent this year, as well as the community garden club display. It reminded me of what an Anthropologie  garden would look like!The cooking demonstration was very good this year. It was on Organic cooking and the chef was from Italy. Her voice with the accent was so relaxing!She made risotto with saffron and asparagus, and Penne pasta with spring veggies. It smelled great!

I don't have any pictures of what we did after that but we ended up at Starbucks for a coffee and then  to West Elm to check out their new Spring line. It was so inspiring, it would be soo neat to have a job there setting up the displays!

Well below are some pictures that Mom and I took on our short trip to Hawaii via Philly.

Enjoy!

The first display when you walked into door

The Main Display which had special effects on the side of the teeke hut and also a light show every 15 min.