a trip east: day 3-philly

day three was a bit of a push for all of us. we'd spent the last 48 hours walking our feet into blistered and sore barney rubbles.

however, we did manage to make it back to the crepe place in reading terminal, to the liberty bell and most of the old city and even managed to get in a little shopping.

our last stop was the italian market (yes please!) where we picked up dinner fixin's. a lovely pasta with spicy ariabata sauce and shrimp. farris' friends made up a delicious salad and although it didn't quite go with our italian theme, i made fresh nann on their open fire grill. delish!

day 3 was meant for relaxing so we ate, enjoyed more of the beautiful weather in farris and andy's charming back yard (chickens, a pond and lots of skillfully arranged and lovely plantings). wednesday morning we were back on the road to indiana. we avoided toll roads on the way back...we agreed that we were only willing to pay that $15.35 toll once on the trip. what we were able to see on the drive was well worth the extra hour it took to get home. our highest elevation was 3200 feet and although it was foggy, we still saw some beautiful scenery and even drove through a town called pancake pennsylvania!

addendum: farris alerted me to the fact that i completely left out our visit to the Mutter Museum.  How I could possibly forget that i have now seen the worlds largest colon or the fact that i now know how to shrink a head! the museum admission was about $14 bucks and certainly worth every penny if cross sections of the human brain, fetuses and such don't bother you. certainly not for the squeemish but definitely for those of us who say "gross! i wanna see!!!" to various body parts and dead things.