ME: 8/4/07 Philly Phinale

We got in line after getting out of our tour of Congress Hall. It wasn't too long. But it sure got longer behind us.





One group went ahead of us and then it was our turn. We saw where the judicial branch held court.

(the young girl next to Marty was in line with her parents next to us. Turns out they're from Canada. We ran into them in several other places besides here.)


And we saw the room where the Declaration of Independence was written and voted on. :-)

We each had our picture taken with George afterwards.

Then we found Franklin Court which is the location where Ben Franklin lived and had his printing business. Many of the buildings are no longer there, but they've done some good stuff to explain what was where and what it was like. Unlike the Old Stone Fort in Tennessee that didn't explain anything well, these people had less to work with and did a better job of explaining. And the part we went to was out in the open. We didn't get to the museum underground.

Then it was back to the National Park Service Building to hit the gift shop and back to the car. We saw where Franklin's grave was located but the cemetery was already closed, so we just looked in through the gate and we actually saw it from the top of the parking structure.