On The Streets of Philadelphia

You will find rallies, protests, parades, history, hoodlums, drug dealers, and more importantly cheese steaks! This is what we found as we made our way around the city of brotherly love on Saturday. Even though I grew up right outside of Philly, I never really took the time to venture around and see the sites. Of course I had seen the Liberty Bell.....but that was about it. We spent the weekend at my house in Lansdale, and took the train in on Sat. with some friends. We saw the Liberty Bell and the outside of Independence Hall (you have to get tickets....didn't know that!)
We then trekked over to the must see South Street. Lots of great shops, tattoo parlors, prophylactic empires, and random clothing shops with inappropriate music blaring from their speakers. Oh and of course we hit up Jim's Steaks. Next we made our way over to the oldest Catholic church in the US. Very pretty. Our last stop was the Betsy Ross house. Had a random fountain with cat statues on it. I was very excited to see this as I love cats! Apparently the cats and Betsy Ross have nothing to do with each other, the fountain architect just wanted to put cats on it. But you can pretend she was an old cat lady!

The line was so long, I think we waited for like 40 minutes.

Random building on South Street, Matt really liked it!

South Street.

Pretty sure this was a drug deal going down.(Ok...how come no one told me I had written "DRUL deal"??? haha I love that I can't spell....thank you to my family for pointing this out to me.)

Cat fountain!

Look closely! CT represent.

Happy Happy Birthday Mother Dear

Happy 39th Birthday Mom! (no she is not really 39....but that is where we cap the age in our family!)

To many many many more years! Love ya Marmie!

(ok I know this is sad that this is the only picture I could find of me and my mom.....I need to take more pics!)

If you need a haircut...I know a great hairdresser!!

I was despising my hair on Monday night and decided I was going to cut it myself. Matt did not trust this idea and instead cut it for me!! He cut about 3 inches off and he didn't do half bad! So give him a call, he's available haha.

And supposedly this is a "Kyra outfit"........
And he makes a dangerously delicious homemade meal.

You Lift Me Up...or Raise Me Up...

Josh Groban kicked butt Tuesday night! My Dad was able to get us some free tickets from his work to the Josh Groban concert. The concert was held at the Rose Theatre(Lincoln Center) and was being filmed for PBS. It was neat because Josh would start singing and then he would say, "ahh I really messed that up...take two." So we were able to see him in a different situation than normal. He would talk and make jokes in between songs....he was a little corny, I must admit. We were pretty close because it was a really small theatre.

I wish I had some pictures to post but the usher had her eyes open and ready for anyone that took out a camera, phone, or an i-pod (in Matt's case). She told us it was a city law not to use any electronic devices in the theatre.....only in NYC. I tried to sneak out Matt's camera phone when she wasn't looking but Matt wouldn't let me:( So no pics of Josh. The concert will be airing on PBS in the near future...not sure when though. It was tons of fun and Josh Groban really does have an amazing voice!

Oh and I got to ride in a Taxi for the first time in NYC! It was a lot nicer than I imagined. I was however, looking out for the Cash Cab.....but no luck this time.

Moody Blues

Matt was just browsing the blog and wanted to know why I hadn't put any pictures up of The Moody Blues Concert we attended in Aug. I told him we didn't have the blog back then and apparently that didn't fly with him. So here are the pictures from the concert we went to for 'my birthday', even though they are Matt's favorite band! Here's to you Matt!

Spring?

Spring is finally starting to grace us with its presence. The end of Winter brought some fun times.

Matt was able to go to Sparks Steak House last month with his work buddies. He was so excited because this specific restaurant is 'famous' in NYC for the murder of the mob boss, Paul Castellano, who was shot in front of Sparks in 1985 by John Gotti's men. Kind of morbid....I know.

Matt's review of the restaurant: "It was delicious."

On Thursday the weather was extremely delightful! It was 70 degrees outside and I took the opportunity at work to take some of the residents on walks. After work I picked Matt up at the train station and we headed over to Bruce Park and sat by the lake until the sun went down. I love Spring!!

This is my posh NYC face.....

I love the warm weather because it gives us so many more things to do! We are going to a Josh Groban concert in the city on Tuesday. In May we are planning on taking some friends to Philly and in a few weeks taking a trip up to Mystic, CT! So look forward to pics and fun stories in the near future!

Turbo This.....

Update and final post on taxes! Finally done. After 2 hours of trying to understand the 'easy' instructions off of the State tax forms, we gave up. Matt was lying on the floor about to have a nervous melt down when I said, "you know what?", "Let's just cough up the money and pay for turbo tax." One of the best suggestions I may ever have. So we ended up paying $90 for our sanity and we got money back! What took us two hours took the computer....oh....20 seconds! Please. Thank you turbo tax...until next year.