on the flip side, i asked my better half to marry me on a carriage ride that slowed to a crawl in front of independence hall for the moment. he could not stop entirely or a bunch of guys with ar-15's would swarm the street and tell him to keep moving, and he said he could lose his license.
we stayed in five star hotel with view of independence hall and about midnight guys started working on a roof on the building next door, hammering, yelling orders, ect. so i called the front desk, and they sent up a key to a deluxe suite for us to stay in, as long as we were out by 11am, no charge and apologies all around.
i had promised my dad that if it ever got that far with me, i would go to the philly diamond district to shop for a ring, and we had a ball doing it. safest i ever felt in philly as heavily armed police walked the streets. got diamond from some 70 year old family business, and they made us feel like family. spent entire day looking at 5 or 6 shops, lots of stories and characters, like the one shop's saleswomen with the adams apple. anyway, fun memories, much better than when i lived there and worked 10-16 hour days, on salary.
we married on a plantation where one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had lived, middleton place, and had carriage rides at the wedding to keep with theme.
overall not real "emotional" type person, but independence hall was pretty special......cradle of modern democracy.
wasn't philly our first capital for a while??????
i need to retake civics class, if they even teach it anymore.....ha
take care.
AI
