The pub on Friday night was fun. Lots and lots of fun. So much fun that we had a very very slow start to Saturday. One of those starts that involved long hot showers, a bit of coffee, lots of juice, and lots of sitting on the sofa looking outside and saying “well, what do you want to do today?”<\/p>\n
At around noon we headed out to Manayuck, a really nice little area of Philadelphia. Actually it’s where we were on Friday night. But on Saturday we went to a nice little restaurant and had brunch. The place was packed and once getting our food it was obvious to see why. However, Joe being awkward asked for a fried egg on his burger. This had obviously never ever been heard of at that particular place so the waitress very carefully wrote down what he wanted, including a description of how to cook the egg. His burger shows up with scrambled egg on top. Joe just shrugged and ate it. [Joe: give them another couple of months and it will be on the menu as a specialty. The fried egg burger.]<\/p>\n
We then walked up and down and the main street which is lined with little specialty shops with lots of weird things. We window shopped and occasionally went into a shop just to laugh at the prices. Though I did get a Bush’s last day in office badge – it’s black with 01.20.09 in white writing. Had to.<\/p>\n
We also walked along the canal behind the shops. Then just back home to sit and chat. Chinese take away for dinner of which we ate far too much trying everything. Just a quiet day. We watched telly and chatted. Joe watched a college football game, then a baseball game (Hal even got out his team’s jersey to cheer them on for the baseball – they won. It must have been the jersey.) We also saw some of the lead up adverts for the Eagles\/Dallas game we’re attending. It’s going to be interesting. Hopefully we’ll survive to post about it later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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