Philadelphia!
So i'm back from my road trip to Philly to chill with Joe. Got to meet his friends and live in his dorms for a weekend.
It was a freaking amazing time, great beautiful city. So many hilarious shenanigans and the usual craziness.
Here is a list of things we did as far as i can remember, and i'm probably missing things:
Thursday:
Walked Drexel and Penn Campus
Got introduced to Wawa, the supermarket/sandwich shop of amazingness (got a Pita)
Saw Watchmen at the super nice theaters at Penn
Friday:
Didn't wake up or leave until hours after we had planned
Discovered the awesomeness that is food trucks with a egg/turkey/cheese on a hoagie
Franklin Science Museum (walked thru a giant heart and went to the amazing planetarium IMAX)
Wandered through key parts of Philly taking ridiculous pictures including love park, the sorry pieces, city hall, and south st
Me and joe went into a shop of the occult and got cursed (All weekend I wanted to drink a Monster, and Joe couldn't get an erection, it was a joke)
Walked through the magic gardens (beautiful recycled mosaic wonderland)
Got real philly cheesesteaks at Geno's
Free italian ice at Ritas
Got amazed when we went into a store from the street and suddenly we were in a huge mall
Went and got salsa lessons
Random Pizza
Joe's friend Jakes place for a small party
Fell asleep in their apartment watching Big Trouble in Little China after this amazingly awesome movie called Demon Knight (lazer eyeballs, thats all i've got to say)
Saturday:
Slept in later than we meant to again and then went to the Philly zoo
It was the 150th anniversary of the Zoo, saw the World Series Trophy
Random cake competition, we ate the cake
Waited in line forever for zoo starbucks... because they had breakfast
Saw MOST of the animals before it closed
I was absolutely positive that the wire around one animal's exhibit was not an electric fence, so sure that when Joe said "so touch it" i thought nothing of it and ended up getting an extremely dangerous high current/voltage shock which i felt in my chest and also wiped out my memory for 10 seconds (i had no idea what happened at first and I was just confused)
Went back to Joe's to pack up his shit so he could move out
Looked up a nice place to eat and ended up getting coconut curry chicken at a Malaysian restaurant called Penang (it was super nice and really good)
After that Joe tricked me by saying that him and his friend have an ongoing competition to see who can run across the grass in front of Independence Hall to the other side the quickest. Feeling fast and competitive I decided to empty my pockets and make the run, only to meet them on the other side later and have them disappointed that a security guard didn't tackle me for running on the grass, which is apparently what sometimes happens to people who have that prank pulled on them.
Saw the liberty bell through the window because it was nighttime by that point
Constitution center, US mint, franklin bridge, penns landing
Then we went to take the subway and stood near this crazy guy near the tracks who was screaming to nobody in particular "Say it in English, I don't want to hear it in Spanish, I want to hear it in English!! NOT SPANISH!!!" he said that about 100 times and then he started talking about the twilight zone and i considered speaking spanish or telling him that the twilight zone airs with spanish subtitles now
711 Slurpees
Another Party at Jakes, Moved Joe in there for the week
Group drunken air guitar and drumming with full chorus singalongs to popular rock hits
There til the wee hours of the morning then passed out
Sunday:
Joe's phone turned off and he missed the alarm so we slept in AGAIN and he was almost late to check out of his dorm
Went to the huge art museum without our friend mike because he took too long to get up
Took pictures with Rocky and we were too lazy from eating Philly food all weekend to run the steps like Rocky
Only payed 9 cents to see the whole art museum because it was pay what you wish day
Played on the statues across the street (joe rode the moose, and I spooned a naked statue lady with a giant snake)
Saw I Love You man at the Penn Theater, it was hilarious ... Jobin
Then I grabbed my shit and said my goodbyes and drove the three hours back to shitty binghamton to a quiet lonely house to write a paper and start the mundane stressful binghamton engineering life again (i'm jealous of everyone who gets to life like we did this weekend in college EVERYDAY, half the guys we hung out with were engineers and yet they were cool and had tons of fun)
this is actually mostly just a record for me, Joe had to recap the entire weekend for me day by day I just reworded and expounded on it because I seriously have such horrible memory that I can't remember the details of what we did, and it JUST happened so i figure I should get it down so I can remember this for times to come
Pictures that I took with my cell phone are up on facebook (my cell phone apparently actually takes really good pictures) but most of the really funny pictures with us guys in them are on somebody elses camera and I plan on tagging the crap out of them when they get uploaded :P
SO FUN... why the fuck do I have to live here? and go to this shitdump college, I really loved being myself for a weekend and being surrounded by people who'll sing and laugh along rather than just give me dirty looks and tell me i'm "acting strange" or make fun of how "white" i am whenever I exhibit any happiness. Vacation is good :-)
It was a freaking amazing time, great beautiful city. So many hilarious shenanigans and the usual craziness.
Here is a list of things we did as far as i can remember, and i'm probably missing things:
Thursday:
Walked Drexel and Penn Campus
Got introduced to Wawa, the supermarket/sandwich shop of amazingness (got a Pita)
Saw Watchmen at the super nice theaters at Penn
Friday:
Didn't wake up or leave until hours after we had planned
Discovered the awesomeness that is food trucks with a egg/turkey/cheese on a hoagie
Franklin Science Museum (walked thru a giant heart and went to the amazing planetarium IMAX)
Wandered through key parts of Philly taking ridiculous pictures including love park, the sorry pieces, city hall, and south st
Me and joe went into a shop of the occult and got cursed (All weekend I wanted to drink a Monster, and Joe couldn't get an erection, it was a joke)
Walked through the magic gardens (beautiful recycled mosaic wonderland)
Got real philly cheesesteaks at Geno's
Free italian ice at Ritas
Got amazed when we went into a store from the street and suddenly we were in a huge mall
Went and got salsa lessons
Random Pizza
Joe's friend Jakes place for a small party
Fell asleep in their apartment watching Big Trouble in Little China after this amazingly awesome movie called Demon Knight (lazer eyeballs, thats all i've got to say)
Saturday:
Slept in later than we meant to again and then went to the Philly zoo
It was the 150th anniversary of the Zoo, saw the World Series Trophy
Random cake competition, we ate the cake
Waited in line forever for zoo starbucks... because they had breakfast
Saw MOST of the animals before it closed
I was absolutely positive that the wire around one animal's exhibit was not an electric fence, so sure that when Joe said "so touch it" i thought nothing of it and ended up getting an extremely dangerous high current/voltage shock which i felt in my chest and also wiped out my memory for 10 seconds (i had no idea what happened at first and I was just confused)
Went back to Joe's to pack up his shit so he could move out
Looked up a nice place to eat and ended up getting coconut curry chicken at a Malaysian restaurant called Penang (it was super nice and really good)
After that Joe tricked me by saying that him and his friend have an ongoing competition to see who can run across the grass in front of Independence Hall to the other side the quickest. Feeling fast and competitive I decided to empty my pockets and make the run, only to meet them on the other side later and have them disappointed that a security guard didn't tackle me for running on the grass, which is apparently what sometimes happens to people who have that prank pulled on them.
Saw the liberty bell through the window because it was nighttime by that point
Constitution center, US mint, franklin bridge, penns landing
Then we went to take the subway and stood near this crazy guy near the tracks who was screaming to nobody in particular "Say it in English, I don't want to hear it in Spanish, I want to hear it in English!! NOT SPANISH!!!" he said that about 100 times and then he started talking about the twilight zone and i considered speaking spanish or telling him that the twilight zone airs with spanish subtitles now
711 Slurpees
Another Party at Jakes, Moved Joe in there for the week
Group drunken air guitar and drumming with full chorus singalongs to popular rock hits
There til the wee hours of the morning then passed out
Sunday:
Joe's phone turned off and he missed the alarm so we slept in AGAIN and he was almost late to check out of his dorm
Went to the huge art museum without our friend mike because he took too long to get up
Took pictures with Rocky and we were too lazy from eating Philly food all weekend to run the steps like Rocky
Only payed 9 cents to see the whole art museum because it was pay what you wish day
Played on the statues across the street (joe rode the moose, and I spooned a naked statue lady with a giant snake)
Saw I Love You man at the Penn Theater, it was hilarious ... Jobin
Then I grabbed my shit and said my goodbyes and drove the three hours back to shitty binghamton to a quiet lonely house to write a paper and start the mundane stressful binghamton engineering life again (i'm jealous of everyone who gets to life like we did this weekend in college EVERYDAY, half the guys we hung out with were engineers and yet they were cool and had tons of fun)
this is actually mostly just a record for me, Joe had to recap the entire weekend for me day by day I just reworded and expounded on it because I seriously have such horrible memory that I can't remember the details of what we did, and it JUST happened so i figure I should get it down so I can remember this for times to come
Pictures that I took with my cell phone are up on facebook (my cell phone apparently actually takes really good pictures) but most of the really funny pictures with us guys in them are on somebody elses camera and I plan on tagging the crap out of them when they get uploaded :P
SO FUN... why the fuck do I have to live here? and go to this shitdump college, I really loved being myself for a weekend and being surrounded by people who'll sing and laugh along rather than just give me dirty looks and tell me i'm "acting strange" or make fun of how "white" i am whenever I exhibit any happiness. Vacation is good :-)