Lizzim 18 USA Trips: Will we ever move house trip

11th June

Today we decided to take a trip into Philadelphia, Jen drove to the station and we took the train. It was reasonably priced at only $12 each.

We arrived just before lunchtime and took a very brief look inside the Reading Terminal Market before we went in search of a Philly Cheesesteak for Rob.

We googled the best places to get a cheesesteak and having selected one which was ‘only’ a mile and a half away we set off.

I should point out at this stage that it was quite warm today…! We went on our really long walk (or at least it felt it in the heat!) and finally arrived at Geno’s which was just a window with a massive line of people waiting to buy their cheesesteaks.

I don’t know why but both Rob and I had expected a restaurant of some kind, but what we found was some outside tables (so no air con to cool is all down!)

That said, Rob and Tom got in line and I spotted that drinks were sold at a different window so I got them. We did manage to get a table so sat there for the boys to eat their food.

I know that Tom wasn’t that impressed (we all agreed that it obviously isn’t to his taste), Rob however absolutely loved his! It was unsurprisingly much better than the Disney one and was definitely worth the walk (in his opinion – Jen would almost certainly disagree ;) )

We headed back towards the Liberty Bell with a plan to find something for Jen and I to eat.

We ended up getting a subway, but we managed to find the hottest subway in all of Philadelphia…..it was actually hotter than outside Geno’s!

We went back to the Liberty Bell visitor centre to cool down (they had air con), we bought ourselves a magnet and considered viewing the bell up close. However, we decided that the line was far too long and so headed back towards the train station.

We popped back into the market and got some amazingly yummy cakes to take back with us, then got the next train back to Wilmington.

Once back at the house we ordered food to be delivered as Tom, Jen and Rob had a project for the evening….Lego!

This was Jen’s birthday present and they started building it the previous weekend when Jen’s mom had come to stay. Rob had promised that he would help them complete it……and I documented their progress with a series of photos.