If You Were Here I'd Be Home Now - A Philly Adventure

Hello readers!

If we're friends on Facebook or you follow me on Instagram, you probably know that David took me on a weekend trip to Philadelphia, and it was the best.

We're kind of a spontaneous couple, so it was weird to have a packed itinerary for an entire day. After arriving late Friday night to my grandma's in Malvern, And early next morning we were off to the Home of the Eagles, sorry, City of Brotherly Love.

Although I'm a proud Pennsylvanian and diehard Eagles fan (obviously), I've only been to the City three times in my life. And it's always been in the Center City region. David has a knack for being adventurous (and romantic), so our first stop was the El to go outside of the Philly I was familiar with and into West Philly.

We went as part of the Love Letter tour, which took the El out to the edges of Philadelphia to view murals painted on the sides of row houses as part of "love letter" to the City (or from lovers to each other). They range from sweet ("meet me on 52nd if only for fifty seconds") to flirtatious ("and it's a definite must-see if you're going to Philly. It's also amazing to see the City, any city really, from its outer rim. As David remarked in his Insta post "Sometimes what makes a city's character is not the center but the neighborhoods outside of it." In this case, it's true. Philadelphia is called "City of Brotherly Love" but you don't really see signs of it in Center City. Taking the El to the outskirts and seeing these murals really put a new meaning to Philadelphia.

After going on a non-touristy tour of the western edge, we did all the touristy things one does in Philly:

Kissed under The Kiss

Explored Reading Market and ate Philly cheese steaks

Got chased by dinosaurs at the Franklin Institute

Posed under every LOVE statue we could find

and tried out ice skating at waterfront (and decided ice skating in the sleet wasn't our thing)

It was an amazing adventure, and I can't wait for our next one, which will be a little closer to home: Washington DC. (More on that soon!)

xx,
Victoria