Day 10

Today we went to Amish stores. We saw lots of quilts (including little church bags and quillows), crafts, and baking. At one of the Amish stores, we had a soft pretzel. We saw quite a few Amish buggies and we went by a school with the children playing outside and staring at us. In one of the stores, there was a little sign about the Quilt Pox. It is in the picture below.
We went to Valley Forge and saw lots of houses that soldiers slept in during the cold winter during the Revolutionary war. We saw General Washington’s house where he stayed – which was much more deluxe than what the soldiers had to live in.
Then we had a long drive and parked near the subway system of Philadelphia. We boarded the subway and took it to 8th & Market Street. We arrived at the Independence Hall Visitor Centre. We had a tour of Independence Hall and saw the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed and a court room. Then we walked to the Liberty Bell and saw where the big crack was. After, we walked to Benjamin Franklin’s printing press and saw an old printing press that was used. We would have seen it in use but we arrived too late.
It was dinner time so we went to the Old City Tavern. There we had turkey pot pie and drank water out of pewter goblets. This food was the same type of food that they ate in the 1770s. Our waiter was dressed in clothes from the 1770s. We then started our way back to the subway and just barely made it. We arrived back at our van and had a long drive to our hotel in New Jersey. We are VERY close to New York City and will be going there tomorrow.
Allison (typed by SV)


A little bonnet for our author today...

The warning in a quilt shop we visited...

The cabins for the soldiers at Valley Forge.

Independence Hall

Hiding one of the cracks of the Liberty Bell.

Some 1770 style grub at the Old City Tavern in Philadelphia.