Philadelphia

We drove into Philadelphia late Sunday night.  I wanted to get an early start on this historic town!  The kids were excited to go see the Liberty Bell.  Unfortunately, it was a rainy Monday in Philadelphia!  The first stop was getting tickets and ponchos!!
I was nervous about getting tickets for Independence Hall because they were sold out online.  When I walked up to the ticket booth, 5 tickets were available for the next tour.  We dashed over to wait in line!

After the Independence Hall tour, we waited in line to go see the Liberty Bell.  

Up next was the Money In Motion Exhibit at the Federal Reserve Bank.  It was full of money trivia and games.  We had so much fun, and they gave you $100 when you left!  Well, it was a bag of shredded money but it was $100 at one time!

We walked on down to Franklin Square to ride the Carousel.  Tyler and Corynne also played a round of putt-putt in the park.

We ate at Square Burger which came up on my Google searches of places to eat in downtown Philly.  Burgers and Shakes in the park...nobody can complain about that!!!  They were also having a Milk exhibit at the park so the girls participated in a few activities.

After lunch, we walked down to the Betsy Ross house.  The girls were excited about this stop also since we read many books about Betsy Ross last year.

Betsy taught us how to cut the one snip-5 point star.  She made it look so easy!  I can not tell you how many sheets of paper we cut up trying to follow the directions and cut this star in homeschool!

We had to take a carriage ride tour of Philadelphia!

We ended the afternoon with a colonial dinner at City Tavern.  I thought it was so cool because George Washington and many other men from our American history ate here.  The kids...not so much.  They just wanted chicken tenders not colonial food!

After dinner we walked down to Penn's Landing.  I wasn't sure if anything would be down there (and there wasn't), but we did enjoy just playing around the water fountains and looking at the Delaware River.

We enjoyed our day in Philadelphia. The kids were all very patient with the historical stuff and the rain!