Phila-lovely

I love philadelphia. Well it has always been my favorite city, I mean why would I go to school there if it wasn't. But this weekend was my yearbook confrence and I stayed smack dab in old city. Like Bank St. which is an alley right off market. It was beautiful, and all the great shops and restaurents right around were awesome. And you could see the entire sky line from the roof because it was right by 2nd st. So incredibly beautiful.

Anyways, Friday I left home about 1ish and drove the 3 1/2 hour drive to philly, which took 4 hours because of damn delware, I seriously hate that state. Ever single time I go through it takes forever::shakes fist::. Anyways, after entering the city I drove through main philly for the first time ever, very scary and tried to find a parking spot. Now I havent paralle parked in ages, since my driving test, almost 3 years ago. So I was looking for a gigantic spot, which I eventually found, but then learned after meeting up with my uncle that it was illegal, I didn't know the arrows on the parking signs actually ment things, but they do, so we moved my car and then he took me to his girlfriends apartment that I stayed at. Let me just say when I live in the city, I want this apartment, so pretty, so classy, so like "I'm 20ish, I have a cool job and I live in Philly". I want that. Once I was settled, I got prettified and meet my uncle Chris for dinner, which was amazingly amazing. We had italian and then walked around old city, and independence hall area, and then headed back to my apartment for some good old fashioned talking. Basically i love him, and i am happy he is in my masque family tree.

So, Saturday was the beginning of the confrence. A yearbook confrence. I was in absolute heaven, like seriously i love yearbook and I will bring the one at Lasalle back to better standards, and have people actually buy the book and pay attention to it. I have one year to turn this book around or the administration is threatening to get rid of it. So if you can help at all, pictures, stories, design, anything, please let me know, right now its me and dawn for the whole book, so help me please! Anyways after the confrence me and a friend I meet there, Sam, went around the city and took cool pictures because we are artsy folk, and we just had a photography class that day. So much fun. We then went to the greyhound station to pick up Cyndi, a friend from home who was coming to stay the weekend. Follwing this was more touristy stuff, like seeing boathouse row, the art museum, logan circle, all at night of course, so incredibly beautiful.

Sunday brought more yearbook, and more of the liz's tour of philadelphia, considering it was Sam and Cyndi's first time in philly. I took them to south street, and then to Pat's to get an amazing cheese steak, which I have to say I taught them well, becuase they both ordered properly and enjoyed their cheese steakes emmensly. Afterwards, I showed them the workings of Septa, and how to buy tokens. Followed by fun with cameras, alcohol, and mirrors back in Sam's hotel room.

Monday brought the end of the confrence and my goodbye to Sam. Which was really really sad, becuase we got pretty close for just meeting on saturday. She is an amazing person that I will definatly keep in touch with and visit, I mean we were ment to be friends, we have the same birthday! Aftewards me and Cyndi went to reading terminal market for an italian hoagie, followed by some shopping and then home.

So basically this weekend was amazing, and I cannot wait until saturday when I am back for good. I can't wait to see the city again and all my lasalle lovelies (golden girls..eeekk). But now i am off to pack, order books, and so on....

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