Philly To-Do List

I've been making a mental list of things that I want to do while living in Philadelphia. While I don't know how long I'll be here (1 year? 3? 8? For-e-ver?) I don't want to do everything all at once, but I don't want to leave without having checked most of these things off, like I did in Nashville and I feel like I missed out a little bit. Rather than keep my list mental, I'll leave it on here so all you lovely people can a) comment and tell me one of the things listed is really not that fun, or is dumb, or not worth it; b) comment and add things to my list; and c) pick out things you want to do when you come visit meeee!

In no particular order, other than Christmassy things first because that just happened:
1. Watch the Comcast Center Christmas light show - done!
2. Go to the Christmas Village in Love Park - done!
3. Watch the Christmas light show at Macy's - done!
4. See the Wanamaker organ concert at Macy's - done!
5. See the Christmas light show in Franklin Square - done!
6. See Elfreth's Alley all lit up and open for Christmas
7. Watch the Christmas boat parade on the Delaware from the Independence Seaport Museum - done!
8. Watch the Christmas tree lighting in Rittenhouse Square
9. Go see the festival and phoenix bonfire in Phoenixville
10. Go to every farmers market within walking distance
11. See the Liberty Bell - done!
12. See the Constitution Center - done!
13. See Independence Hall - done!
14. Go to Valley Forge - done!
15. Philadelphia Magic Gardens
16. Find all of the sculptures around City Hall
17. Take a selfie with William Penn - done!
18. Tour City Hall - half done!
19. Eat dim sum in Chinatown - done!
20. Visit State College and the Penn State campus
21. Eat a Federal Donut - done!
22. Eat a Philly cheesesteak. Because I never have. - done!
23. Eat some water ice (I've had Rita's at home, does that count?) - done! and it was perfect.
24. Call a sub sandwich a hoagie without having to think about it first - actually, yes, done.
25. Not fall down my terrifying stairs - already missed that one...
26. See a show in the Wilma Theatre, or the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, or Walnut Street Theatre, or some other theatre
27. See a concert at the Curtis Institute of Music
28. Go to a Temple basketball game
29. Go snow tubing on a mountain. Snow tubing!
30. Eat at every restaurant within a 2 block radius of my house
31. Go across every bridge from the city
32. Go to Amish country/Lancaster County if "Amish country" is not PC. I'm not from here, I don't know the rules.
33. Go to Hershey - done!
34. Visit the library - done!
35. And do the Rocky thing at the Museum of Art, of course - done!
36. Watch Rocky for the first time ever...
37. Watch the Mummer's Parade on New Years Day - done!
38. Watch the New Years Eve fireworks over the Delaware - done!
39. Visit the Battleship New Jersey - done!
40. Sing O Little Town of Bethlehem in the Church of the Holy Trinity where it was written
41. Go inside the First National Bank - like, the first national bank of the United States.
42. Tour the Mint - done!
43. Go to a Phillies game - done!
44. Go to a Flyers game
45. Go to an Eagles game
46. Visit the Betsy Ross House - done!
47. Go to a casino in Jersey
48. Go to the Franklin Institute - done!
49. Visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art - done!
50. Go to the Penn Museum - done!
51. Go to the Mutter Museum of medical oddities - done!
52. Go to Christmas Eve service at Christ Church
53. Visit the Eastern State Penitentiary - done!
54. Visit the Germantown White House
55. Glencairn Museum
56. Mercer Museum
57. The Please Touch Museum
58. Go to Christmas at Longwood Gardens
59. Take a run around Fairmount Park
60. Eat a pierogi, whatever that is - done! and it was delicious
61. Eat a cannoli from an authentic Italian bakery - done! 
62. Go shopping in the Italian Market - done!
63. Go shopping in the Reading Terminal Market - done! and it's awesome. $2 pastries on Saturday evenings, hello.
64. Say /rEd/ in my head instead of /rid/ when saying "Reading" - done! it took a while...
65. Go on the Annual Center City House Tour
66. Drive around when all the leaves change color in the fall - done!
67. Go to as many surrounding states as I can to make my list of States I've Visited longer (at 27 currently)
68. Go to the Army-Navy game. If it's not snowing.
69. Go to the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll. It's like Dollar Tree, but outside.
70. Eat basically everything. And then walk around a lot... - done!
71. Do the Broad Street Run someday, if I'm able
72. Eat more of everything during Restaurant Week - done!
73. Go to a concert in Rittenhouse Square during the Summer Concert Series
74. East Passyunk Car Show
75. Be able to walk around Passyunk without getting hopelessly turned around
76. Fete Day in Elfreth's Alley
77. Go to a concert in that square in NoLibs
78. Harry Potter Festival in Cherry Hill. Imagine the people watching!
79. Watch the Independence Day Parade. Because they care about patriotism and stuff like that here. - done!
80. Watch the nation's oldest Thanksgiving Day Parade - done!
81. Watch Rocky at the Museum of Art. Nice tie-in, folks.
82. Summer Movie Series at Penn's Landing
83. Watch the St. Patrick's Day Parade. This place has a lot of parades. - done! But honestly, this parade was kind of lame compared to the others.
84. Go to a corn maze up here in rural land where they have a lot of corn and stuff
85. Eat ice cream from a real dairy farm type deal - done!
86. Walk the Mural Mile - done! and it was a great time.
87. Pick pears, apples, and blueberries at a farm in the summer and fall. - done!
88. Go to a 76ers game - done!
89. Go to the Philadelphia Science Festival.
90. Go apple picking with a friend - done!
91. Walk across the Ben Franklin bridge
92. Meet someone I will spend the rest of my life with - done!!
93. Play mini golf in Franklin Square
94. Visit the National Constitution Center - done!
95. Visit Independence Hall - done!
96. See the Liberty Bell - done!
97. Go to One Liberty observation deck - done!
98. Go on a covered bridge tour through Bucks county - done!
99. Ride bikes around Gettysburg
100. Take a picture with the "Welcome to Scranton" sign from The Office
101. Go to a Temple football game - done!
102.  Explore the Becuna, Olympia, and USS New Jersey - done!
103. Take a day trip to New York City - done!
104. Go to the Philadelphia Zoo
105. Go to the Civil War museum
106. Visit Fort Mifflin




That's what I've got right now. Looks like I'd better get busy!

So I moved to Philadelphia. Whoops.

Hello blogland. It's been a short forever since I've written. That's because I up and moved 1,500 miles away to good ol' Philadelphia, PA.

It snows here.

I moved the week of Thanksgiving, after packing up all my stuff at home and driving it in a giant truck

And driving it to lovely Tennessee

Driving by my beloved Vandy

And loading up the rest of my stuff that was chilling in storage in Nashville

with a lot of help

And then driving some more in things like... mountains and junk.

And then discovered Pennsylvania in all its rural glory, where they actually have cows that look like cows.

And moved into my new place

On my new street

And unpacked all of my stuff into my new home's kitchen

And living room

where my strangely colored couch actually works really well!

and I got to use one of my summer projects

as well as one of my spring projects and Christmas gifts

and a bunch of free and really cheap stuff to pull it all together. thrifting ftw.

And my new bedroom space

And my new living space of my very own

and just a leeeetle bit of Christmas decorations because I didn't feel like unpacking another box

I've made it down my crazy stairs safely so far

Through the streets of Philadelphia

To my new office and my new dream job that was worth waiting for

All the way to Christmas in Philadelphia

where I'll be wishing I was home but very grateful I am here.

Now, if anyone wants to invent a super high speech train from Philly to Dallas, that would be great.