Saturday, May 30, 2009

Our first visitors, Sam and Katrina!

This week our friends Sam and Katrina drove from Saginaw to visit us. We met Sam and Katrina in Dominica (Sam is a medical student too), and we really became close when we moved to the same apartment complex in Michigan. Sam and Katrina had never been to the east coast so naturally we had to show them all the "important sites"! Below is just an array of pictures from their visit, including our trips to Washington DC and Philadelphia.


Philly Geno's and Pat's are two competing cheese steak restaurants in Philly. Each location sells essentially the exact same product and each has two strictly enforced rules: 1. Pay in cash and 2. Read their instruction on how to order, practice before ordering, and don't mess up. We witnessed intimidated customers practicing their order in line. Quite hilarious if you ask me, although they were very very very serious about their rules. I preferred Pat's merely because Geno's refused to give me a glass of tap water... which I believe is illegal? Anyone know!?

Liberty Bell - It is a beautiful exhibit. The Liberty Bell is placed in front of a glass door that overlooks where it originally hung in Independence Hall.

National Christmas Tree - Which in our opinion, needs some pruning!

4 comments:

Kendall said...

Looks like you again had fun visiting our nation's capital. I love DC and hopefully one day I will live a little closer to it.

mapacupps said...

Those are great pictures. You really saw a lot of neat historical sights. It's fun to have friends come and visit and help you explore things around you.

Nicholas Cupps said...

I liked Pat's as it seemed a little less commercial... wait what am I saying? They're both amazing. The best part of eating a true Philly Cheese Steak is the wonderful pool of grease that develops in the bottom of your wrapper. Amaaaaaaaazing. Wow, my whole mouth just filled with saliva.

Colleen Noble said...

Looks like fun! I love the first picture that you posted...great shot!