Cole's Graduation Weekendback

Hi!

Alex's cousin Cole, who lives in Philadelphia, graduated from Penn this month!  Alex's parents flew to Baltimore and we drove to Philly with them and had a great time!



On Sunday, Alex's aunt and uncle had a nice brunch at their house.  A lot of Cole's friends and their families from out of town came.







It was perfect weather to eat outside in their pretty backyard!





That evening we went to the ceremony for his specific college.





We took some pics with Cole after the ceremony.



The next morning we went to the school-wide ceremony, which was also really nice!  The speaker was Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.  She gave such a great speech!  





After the ceremony we had lunch with Cole, his girlfriend Jackie, Alex's parents, and his aunt and uncle at a cool restaurant called Fork.





I had chicken bites and Alex had pasta.  We split the chocolate bark dessert....so yummy!



We drove back to Baltimore with Alex's parents and they stayed with us that night, so they got to spend a little bit of time here with us before flying back to Tucson!

That night we went to Tavern on the Hill for dinner.  It POURED.  We joked that there were record-breaking storms whenever they come (when they were here to help us move in last August, we had the second-rainiest day in Baltimore ever!).  It turns out we were right!  This time it broke the rain record for that specific day.  Crazy!  We got soaked walking to dinner and home, but it was fun :)  We got frozen yogurt at Tutti Frutti across the street for dessert.

The next morning we went to Jimmy's for breakfast and walked around Fells Point.  We found some stores that Alex and I didn't even know existed down there!  It was really fun.  After that Alex gave us a tour of the School of Public Health!  It's really nice!  It was fun seeing where he spends his days at school.  It has a really big balcony with a great view, so we spent a little while up there!







We had lunch in Hampden at Golden West Cafe, and then Alex's parents drove to the airport to fly home!

We had such a fun few days with them and with Cole and his family, too!

Thanks for reading!

Our Weekend in Philly

Hi!

Alex's aunt, uncle, and cousin live in Philadelphia, PA, and we went to visit them this weekend!  We had such a great time.  I had never been there before and Alex hadn't been there for a long time.

When we first got there, we went to a farm with a pumpkin patch, apple picking, etc.  It was really nice out (all weekend) and we ate lunch there and got apple cider donuts.  So yummy!

  

They had SO many different types of pumpkins.  I think the fairytale pumpkins were my fave!

After the pumpkin patch, we went to the Brandywine River Museum of Art.  It was really cool!  We walked along the river that's behind the museum afterwards and that was really nice.  

We ate dinner at a place called Goat Hollow and the food was delish.  I got the Chicken Relleno Sandwich which had chorizo in the chicken breast with manchego cheese on top.  YUM.  After dinner we picked up some salted caramel gelato at their Co-Op grocery store and ate that at home with some of the apple cider donuts.  It was sooo good!  We watched the movie Philomena, which is really interesting and really sad!

Today we got to eat brunch with Alex's cousin, too, and he showed us around the Penn campus.  We ate at the White Dog Cafe.  I got shrimp and grits which was amazing.

We walked around downtown Philadelphia, too, which was really fun!  We got to see Betsy Ross's house, the Carpenters Company, and lots of other historic places.  Everything was so cute and old.  I loved it!

We're home now!  I have a bunch of new elastic so I'm going to work on hairties like crazy tomorrow!

Thanks for reading!