Temple, Penn, and downtown Philly

Today was our final full day in Philadelphia. We fly out tomorrow morning and Ross and I took the opportunity this morning to finally sleep in after days of being exhausted from getting up waaaay to early every day.

We spent the afternoon with a tour of Philadelphia and all it has to offer. It is a very interesting city and a very dirty one as well. It was very intersting to see so much decay and new growth in the same place. A building could be completely deteriorated, but have a beautiful mural painted on the side of it.

Craig took us on quite the tour. We saw Temple's dental school, where he spends almost every waking minute of every day for the next three and a half years as well as a police man walk into a Dunkin Dounuts right across the street. Ross thought that was pretty funny.

Downtown Philly is very pretty with some great old buildings. We drove from row houses and scary land to metropolitan land to china town and through little Italy. It is pretty impressive the amount of holiday decorations one can strap to the front stoop of a row house.

We ate steak sandwhiches at Lee's, close to the Penn campus and took a tour of the campus itself which is as beautiful as any ivy league school I've seen and I've seen a couple. Philly is a city full of very nice people, excellent food, and the saying that

Philly is the City of Brotherly Love really does fit.

We wraped up the evening and the trip with a jaunt over to Wilmington, Delaware to eat Italian food....very good Italian food. Who knew that such a place exsisted in Delaware.