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Today was our first real day in Philadelphia and unforunately the
first day of the conference. Thankfully, Terry wasn't feeling up to
attending the conference, which was great, because I was in way too
much of a lethargic mood for doing so. Now before you start thinking
'tsk tsk tsk ... they should do work stuff on a work holiday', you
should know that there wasn't anything relevant to our work at the
conference that day, so bludging wasn't really such a naughty thing to
do.
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Exploring Philadelphia

K.thambi
2006-01-06 15:46:25

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Today was our first real day in Philadelphia and unforunately the
first day of the conference. Thankfully, Terry wasn't feeling up to
attending the conference, which was great, because I was in way too
much of a lethargic mood for doing so. Now before you start thinking
'tsk tsk tsk ... they should do work stuff on a work holiday', you
should know that there wasn't anything relevant to our work at the
conference that day, so bludging wasn't really such a naughty thing to
do.

Anyway, I digress. We headed off to the historical part of Phili
which pretty much encompasses the entirity of Phili's tourist circuit.
Philadelphia is actually a fairly signifcant city in the US, because
this is where the constitution was formulated by Thomas Jefferson and
his friends and was also where the Declaration of Independence was
written.

First stop was the information centre to discover exactly what was
worth seeing. After being cut-off by three separate times by rude
americans who didn't understand the rules of queuing, I finally
managed to get served my a very friendly old information desk man. He
was actually very frank and told me that the majority of the
historical sights would basically be quite boring to an Australian,
since they all dealt with events in American history which I'd
probably find rather drole. His attititude was rather unexpected
since typically I think of Americans as thinking that the whole world
revolves around them and that everybody should know everything about
them. Nevertheless, we decided that seeing we'd broaden our limited
Australian minds and go see stuff anyway, so he recommended seeing
Liberty Bell - the most treasured American icon according to him.

Liberty Bell was basically - a bell. A small bell in fact. With a
big crack down the ...