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#51 - visit the Liberty Bell

The weekend before we left for Florida, we drove up to D.C. to say goodbye to my family.  While we were in the area, we decided to venture north for 2 hours more and spend a day in...

 Philadelphia!  (For you non-baseball fans, that's the Phillies Phanatic. Scary, huh?)

We met up with our extra-awesome friend Angela to tour the sites, including one that just happened to be on my list. (I won't try and pretend that crossing an item off my list and hanging out with Angela weren't my primary motives for the Philly trip.)

Here we are, in line for the Liberty Bell.  The two girls in strange outfits standing behind Angela represent everything wrong in America...namely, cutting in line.  Ok, so that's more like "everything wrong with the third grade," but really--who cuts in line to see the Liberty Bell?! 

When I visited the Liberty Bell for the first time back in 2002, it was just a glass enclosure.  Now, there's an entire Liberty Bell Center!  It was VERY impressive. 

 The funny thing about the Liberty Bell is that no one knows for sure whether it was actually rung at the public reading of the Declaration of Independence.  It wasn't even called the Liberty Bell until the 1800s!  The amazing thing about it is the symbol for liberty that it's become, regardless of how it got its crack or when it rang.  It's what people have made it!


So there you have it--#51, complete!  We visited a lot of other places on our Philadelphia trip, but that's a story for another blog.





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  1. AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM

    I'm going to have nightmares about that mascot. Thanks. Your hair is crazy long! And beautiful, but that goes without saying.

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