July 4, 2014 – Day 3

We woke up to a beautiful day – 68 and the sun was out and no clouds.  The first day it was terribly hot, yesterday was cold and raining and today looks perfect.

We started the day with breakfast at the Reading Terminal Market followed by a tour of the Market which was fun.  This market has been in place for 114 years and it is huge.   Our tour guide had written several books about cooking so she was very informative about the foods at the market.

Then we quickly hopped a bus to get to our next tour called Real Philadelphia Tour.  This tour was all about seeing Philadelphia from outside the historical sites.  We just happened to have the same guide as we did yesterday and that was nice as she spoke loudly and walked at a good pace.  Even though we walked 6.68 miles, it was a fun tour and it took 4 ½ hours.

One of the neat things that we went to was the home of one of the first major surgeons, De. Philip Physick, who is called the father of American Surgery.  His house was open and in it they had a lot of the instruments that he designed in the early 1800’s.

For lunch, we stopped in the 9^th street Italian Market and the people in the tour were on their own to find a place for lunch.  We ate in a place called Paisano and had a Paisano sandwich which was beef brisket, mayo with horseradish sauce, sharp provolone, pepperincino roasted tomatoes and a cooked egg all served on a wonderful Italian roll.  Then it was time to go back on the tour and we sure walked off the food!

Then we took a bus across the river to the Battleship New Jersey for a tour of that huge ship from a different generation.  It was fun but very exhausting going in and out all of the stairways and hallways. 

After the ship tour we took the ferry back over to the Philadelphia and walked to the ship Moshula for dinner. 

The ship is a 4 star restaurant on a 4-masked sailing ship.  What a great dinner we had.  Barb had a crab cake along with lobster mac and cheese as a veggie.  Ed had a huge shrimp cocktail and then a 9oz filet that was extremely good.  After dinner, we went to the top deck to watch the fireworks – what fun and a lot less walking then yesterday!  The fireworks were much better than last night.  New Jersey fireworks beat out Phillys!!

After the fireworks, we took a cab back to the hotel.  We were amazed in that the cab driver told us to take $5 off the total bill because he took a wrong turn.  We knew it, but couldn’t say anything because we weren’t sure, but he surprised us that he admitted it and gave us the discount.  That type of thing makes a person really believe in people and general honesty.

 Today we walked a total of 10.8 miles and yes, Barb's back hurts and  Ed's knees do also

Night from Philadelphia – tomorrow New York.

 

According to FORDORS one of the top 20 dessert stands in the US

The Italian Market - 6 blocks long on both sides

 

Lunch

Our ship for dinner

Our shrimp cocktail

Barb's crab cake

 

Ed's 9oz filet

 

 

 

 

 

Fireworks

Here are the fireworks from July 4th. 

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Tonight or tomorrow, I will post the fireworks from tonight, July 5th.

 

Here is the July 5th fireworks from New Jersey - they were better!!