Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA

Sherri, Taylor and I took a short trip to Philly Friday night to Saturday night. There were a lot of problems throughout the trip but we made it there and back safe. 

We got there late friday night and went out to eat at Fergie's Pub. We all got the special, Guinness braised beef stew- it was AMAZING! We had a few drinks at midnight for Sherri's birthday then went back to the hotel. In the morning we ate breakfast at Sabrina's cafe (a place Sherri's friend recommended). It was a small, artsy looking place with unique dishes with huge portions :) It was amazing!! Then it was on to the MUTTER MUSEUM. 

i had read a little information on the Mutter Museum but i wasn't sure what to expect. i thought it would probably be like Body works. It was a small museum but it was packed with interesting things. They had a wall of skulls with wall texts with the names, age, and how they died. It was crazy! My favorite part of the museum was the antique medical instruments! [In a past blog i was going to do my 

honors project on that but i couldn't find much information on it] I was like a kid in a candy store... I loved the intricate forms and crazy mechanisms some of them had and the boxes they came in were AWESOME! I am such a fan of boxes but these were old, wooden boxes with tiny compartments and were locked with skeleton keys!! ahhh! I told Taylor i wanted to change my honors project right there. hehe maybe those are ideas for grad school? I did not want to leave and i was very disappointed i couldn't take pictures. I did buy a book on antique medical instruments! 

after the Mutter we had to navigate our way back to get the car. We stopped at the market? It was huge and had every kind of food you could ever want. I was in heaven and hell because i was still full from a delicious breakfast so i didn't eat anything. I wish i had been.

We also went to the Fabric Workshop & Museum. It turned out to be a gallery with a tiny museum gift shop like the one at the Cooper Hewitt. The gallery was small but it had some interesting sculptures. it was an unexpected surprise to find out that was a gallery.

Philly was a lot of walking around trying to figure out where we were and it didn't help that we had 2 personalities in the group that did not work well together. I was surprised how spread out everything was in Philly, you had to walk a lot of take cabs. On out way out of the city we stopped at Tony Luke's to get cheesesteaks. Took forever but i had to get a cheesesteak in Philly.