Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Philadelphia Day 3

TIMELINE
  • 7:00 a.m. Awake (5.5 hours sleep)
  • 7:45 a.m. Walked with Dawn to the American Control Conference (ACC) 2019 morning plenary (full session) talk
  • 8:15 a.m. Reading Terminal Market - The Dutch Eating Place
    • Scrapple with scrambled egg omelet and buttered wheat toast
  • 8:30 a.m. Reading Terminal Market - Beiler’s Bakery
    • Pistachio muffin
    • Cinnamon roll with walnuts
    • Purchased a loaf of bread for a hungry homeless woman
  • 8:45 a.m. Reading Terminal Market - Sweet as Fudge Candy Shoppe
    • Three dark chocolate cashew turtles
    • Penuchi fudge square (I've only read about it)
    • Brownie fudge square
  • 9:00 a.m. Back at hotel; tried to sleep but couldn't
  • 11:30 a.m. Meet with Dawn after her talk which went well; walk down to her Women in Control lunch session
  • 12:15 p.m.: SEPTA 11th Street station
    • Purchased Key Card with incorrect weekly TransPass for next week
    • Loaded the Key Card wallet and was able to ride the subway to the Independence Center exit
    • Long underground tunnels connecting the various stations ... probably very helpful in the winter
  • 12:30 p.m. Selfie with Philly Phanatic statue at Independence Visitor Center
  • 1:00 p.m. National Constitution Center - We The People performance (mediocre script, but clever use of technology)
  • 2:30 p.m. National Constitution Center - "Fourteenth" performance (wonderful)
  • 3:15 p.m. SEPTA customer service to submit service request to remove Weekly TransPass charge which I don't need (customer service was wonderful)
  • 4:20 p.m. Elfreth's Alley
  • 4:45 p.m. Cherry Street Pier - wonderful creative space, but nobody was there
  • 4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. walking along waterfront
    • Blue Cross RiverRink (roller skates)
    • Great Plaza at Penn's Landing
    • Spruce Street Harbor Park (hammocks :) )
    • Rentals of peddle-powered swans, kayaks
    • Mini amusement park
  • 5:40 p.m. Cool off at CVS; purchased contact lens solution
  • 6:00 p.m. Geno's Steaks - 
    • wit', with 'wiz
    • Birch beer
    • Fries
    • Passyunk Avenue
  • 6:15 p.m. Pat's King of Steaks - wit', with 'wiz
    • Honestly, I can't tell only that the bread differs
    • Both great
  • 6:30-7:15 p.m. - walked back to hotel, seeing a few things:
  • 7:15 p.m. Wawa #8112 - mixed fruit and a salted pretzel
  • 7:20 p.m. Back at hotel
  • ??? p.m. Asleep
NOTES
  • 90 F with 63% humidity : S
  • Dragging today; didn't get to sleep as much as I preferred
  • Felt ok walking around though
  • Elfreth's Alley was peaceful and in order; Bladen's Court was a neat sheltered retreat
Route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7390166

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