All things considered, I enjoyed Philadelphia far more than I expected to!
We arrived about noon, ending our multi-day trek north from Atlanta. Our hotel was right across the street from our event location: the King of Prussia Mall. It's apparently the largest retail mall in America (the Mall of America is the largest mall, but doesn't count as a retail mall because it has a rollercoaster... or something like that), and having seen roughly half of it, ohmygosh it's huge. We wound up using the mall for it's Rite Aid (in a mall!) and food court and air conditioning, but that place was pretty high class and absolutely huge. It was basically two different two-story indoor malls, both huge, connected to each other by a walkway crosswalk. Seriously, the mall had city streets running through the parking lots, it was that big.
Anyways, we arrived and settled in nicely, because our event was the very next day in the afternoon. We still went out early in the morning to set everything up, and finished in time to run into the mall for lunch and an air-conditioned reprieve from the 97% humidity of the day. Eek, is all I have to say to that!
The event ran fairly smoothly, though S had to leave to catch his flight back home halfway through things. We managed to do the take-down one man short, and then the on-site agents in Philadelphia offered to take us out to dinner. So we spent dinner having really great burgers and discussing all the different places we should see while we were in Philadelphia! It was great to have the local advice on everything, and we plotted out the next day and half to take advantage of everything we had available to us. R flew home that night, so it would be just D and J and I exploring the city!
We had an absolute blast - so much so that our day and half of exploring deserves two whole posts of their own! So stay tuned... more to come!
-Beth
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