Robnik's Adventures

August 05, 2005

Tippler Tour (AKA Pub Crawl)

We had a fabulous evening with boomer friends John and Betsy Crawford in Philly. We took a 90 min walking tour with a costumed guide of four historic taverns in Philly. At each tavern we were treated to a special beverage. It was a blast!! My favorite tavern was BookBinders, where we were give a sample of snapper soup (turtle soup) not my favorite, the ale was good but, what I was most interested in was the Presidents Room each President had their picture on the wall, but, the most interesting fact was that every president had actually visited this tavern . I thought that was pretty amazing!!

Trying to top this fantastic evening, as if we could, but we did manage …. we did the Light of Liberty Show!! This is an outdoor light show telling the story of the American Revolution. Images were projected onto the buildings where events actually took place we put on headsets and it was all done in 3D and we walked to the historic places like the site of Benjamin Franklins house, Carpenters Hall, The Second Bank of the US and of course ended up at Independence Hall. This was soooo coooool!!!!

We got home around 1 am!!

Our next trip next week is to Washington DC.

I hope you all are having the best summer ever!!!!

Us at Society Hill Tavern our first watering hole

John, John C and Betsy toasting in Society Hill Tavern

Tour in front of City Tavern

Bookbinders Tavern our tour guide

Well deserved rest, very hard afternoon of tasting ales John, Betsy and John C

Getting ready to start our walking tour

2nd Bank of the US

Independence Hall

Final scene at Independence Hall

July 28, 2005

Valley Forge National Historic Park

Today we took a day trip to Valley Forge we had wonderful weather today as well as some very beautiful scenery. Valley Forge was PA first state park until President Ford made it a national park on July 4, 1976. We were able to tour the camp headquarters were George Washington lived during the encampment in 1777-78. Actually saw where Geo Washington slept!!

We also toured the QVC studios. Very interesting and informative tour. We have a good understanding of the behind the scenes of live TV.

We finished the day in South Philly with dinner at Pats King of Cheesesteaks- there is a long time feud with Genos who is across the street about who has the best cheesesteak, we choose Pats for no particular reason. We don't think you can get a bad cheesesteak in Philly, so as far as we are concerned they are all good!!!