It wasn’t planned until last minutes, but I was invited for a day trip to Phila-del-phia.

I might have passed by the city by bus long time ago, but technically this was my first time being there.

My friends and I mostly looked around the Old City (historical places). This place is quite interesting. We saw lots of guides dressing up like 18th Century. We saw many horse carriages. We even saw a bride and gloom riding on a carriage to get to their ribbon-rapped car!!

I didn’t know that this city used to be a nation’s Capital for a little while before DC. There are lots of old looking buildings and streets there. I like the stone pavements though it’s hard to walk on. Another nice thing about this Old City is that there are many parks everywhere!! You can walk around the city, and if you get tired, you can just stop by one of the parks and get some rest with nice breeze, scents of trees and flowers, and good temperature shade!

How nice!

We do have parks in DC as well, but I don’t remember we have as many trees (=shade) as in Philly. I remember I always feel so hot and humid with strong sunshine in DC:(  We need more trees to make more shades like Philly!!!!

Anyway, we checked out the famous Liberty B&ll. I learned that there are lots of historical events/activities behind this bell and now all the states and some other countries have repricas.

The most striking image of the bell to me was actually "the Human Liberty B&ll" Basically people make the shape of the bell on the ground and took a photo from the air. It was actually pretty good. 

After looking around the Old City, we moved to Chestnut Hill and to Fiarmount Park.

The park’s riverside was very nice to just walk around and stay to feel the nature. 

It was just a day trip, but I had good time and was glad to see beautiful sceneries and to feel nice air in shades surrounded by lots of trees:) That was very relaxing, you know.