I’ll do these together since I took a little trippie with friends to the Philadelphia Flower show. This was such a fun trip, catching the train in the morning where C and M got on in Richmond. They saved us two seats so we sat facing each other! The trip went by so fast and without a hitch. We ubered to the AirBnB which was a super cute top floor apartment in a row house. Headed straight out to go to lunch (tacoteka – delicious and lots of Comcast Bros) then to the show – we walked like 12,000 steps once all was said and done (the trip to buy bobbi’s bourbon certainly added to those steps) The flower show was just more than what I could have even thought it would be. Totally taken over the Convention Center, there were floors of events, talks, vendors and the big room where all of the installations were. They were just stunning in their creativity, artistic vision and obviously the choice of plants and flowers. There were award winning plants of every variety, art made with plant materials, dresses, front door designs – it really gave me a lot of ideas for what I could start doing off to the side garden where all the obedient flower is. Just gotta do it, Dianne. Plant the plants and see if they work – you have to let it goooooooo not everything is a waste. If a plant doesn’t make it, you can move it! you can let it go back to the earth to help fertilize another plant?
3/4 Here are pics from the flower show:
3/5: we all got a good night’s sleep, some of us in a bed and one of us on a comfy couch!!! We emptied some coffee pods into the drip coffee maker so we could all at least have a cup of coffee and then we packed up and ubered to the train station to store our bags for the day ($20) so we could galavant. While waiting in line a guy was behind us who took a call and then said “I am in the middle of something, can you call me back later after 3 but text me first to let me know you’re going to be calling. Okay thanks bye” and I was just like “OMG NICELY DONE OWNING YOUR TIME!!!” and we all just started talking and our new friend Kyle heard us looking at restaurants for lunch and Mary asked him where would he go for a Philly Cheesesteak and he said Woodrow’s Sandwich Shop so off to South Philly to get our lunch! We were dropped off on a cool little artsy part of town that I pointed out is much different than the downtown scene we had yesterday at lunch (Comcast Campus is right in the middle of downtown) I think most of the people near the sandwich shop were still sleeping at lunchtime because they work at night on this cool street!! (In my imagination it is like a little goth villiage where they start getting up around 3, and starting to get out and about around 7pm,) Okay there was a goth store across from the sandwich place that gave me that thought haha store was closed of course because it was early!!! They probably don’t open until like 9pm!!!! I’m just glad Woodrow’s was open because I had the freaking best grilled cheese. Parmesan herb crust, american and taleggio cheese and pear!!!! Delicious, so thankful for Kyle!
Then back in an uber after checking out the store nextdoor (old OLD vintage t-shirts, records, clothes etc.) we talked music with the owner before our ride arrived to take us to the Philadelphia Museum of Art! Up the Rocky stairs, we saw a cheer squad with their parents do the rocky run. Got to the ticket counter and Caroline asked if a VMFA membership got her any discounts and they asked “how many of you?”… welp we all got in with the VMFA membership! So generous!!!!! Everyone who worked at the museum was so nice. Caroline had asked if we could go to the Noah Davis show and I said ‘of course’ sight unseen and didn’t look up anything about him so I could absorb what I could while standing with his art. When I say simply stunning, I mean stunned to tears! It was a gorgeous exhibit, but reading and learning about this bright young artist, I was brought to tears a few times, sometimes because of the loss of this fantastic man but the parallel to my brother in law’s life. I would have tears streaming, it was so touching. I hope I remember this work and not have to rely on the museum to keep the page up forever but I’m gonna link it. https://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/noah-davis
Got to visit my favorite statue, Diana who used to stand atop a ball on the old Madison Square Garden.
Then we walked from the museum to the train station and got our ride home. We had so much fun on the train, talking, meeting people, getting little glimpses into lives we will never know anything about ever again. These ladies, we are just a good group of yin and yangs, a lot alike and a lot not and it is the best smashup. I 1000000000% forgot to say Today is my peaceful day when I woke up today – I did remember it much later but my first thought when I woke up was “Where is Caroline?” hahahahaha today (the day I’m typing this) is my peaceful day and my trip to Philly was OMG just what I needed – my phone was on Do Not Disturb the whole time. I loved that, I’m going to do that more often. Bye For Now!!!
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