Layover equals an Extra Adventure

Our day started out with a 7:35am take off time to DC, that went smoothly, thankfully.

Then we took the shortest flight ever, it was only 45 minutes, to Philly.

In Philly we had an 8 hour layover thanks to the rescheduling from yesterday. So, we decided to make the best of it and see the town.

From the airport we took a train to the city center.

Our first mission was to find an authentic Philly Cheesesteak. We must have looked like tourist because an visitor center officer approached us and pointed us in the direction of a place called Reading Terminal Market were we could find a ‘real’ cheesesteak. After he gave us maps and advise we headed over to find the Cheesesteaks.

And we found them, they were good! 

After we stuffed ourselves we headed off to find the Liberty Bell.

Then we looked at the sights around the bell, including Independence Hall, Betsy Ross’ House and The Christ Church.

We left the Independence Hall tour and the U.S. Mint to be visited on our way back to the states.

Our last stop was Christ Church also called the Nations Church. George Washington and Benjamin Franklin attended services there. This Church was built in 1727.

We even got to sit in George Washington’s pew.

After a long day that wasn’t done yet, we caught a train back to the airport to board our flight to Manchester.

We got on the plane as scheduled and when we saw our seats we disappointed that they did not have TV’s in front of them like all the other seats. Just when we were about to ask to change to seats with TV’s a flight attendant pointed out that they flipped up from underneath our seats. Little did we know that this was the least of our worries. Our flight was delayed again because of maintenance problems. For the second time in our trip we were asked to de-board the plane. Luckily this time there was an extra plane and we were only delayed 3 hours. Needless to say we were exhausted and just wanted to get to Europe.

We want to thank everyone for all the comments so far, please keep leaving them, we love getting them. Questions about the sites we see or countries we are in are welcome. Please just remember to sign your name!

Stasia and Jessy