Hockey Road Trip, Fall 2004

Week One - Southwest Sat, 10/16 - Fri, 10/22

Saturday, 11/27

We spent the day visiting Philadelphia and then to a 14th birthday party dinner for John's niece, Marissa.

Week Two - Texas Sat, 10/23 - Fri, 10/29

We had lunch at the City Tavern, then walked up to Elfreth's Alley, then on to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.

Week Three - Southeast Sat, 10/30 - Fri, 11/5

We stopped at the Visitor's Center first to get our bearings, a map, and tickets to see Independence Hall.  Since we were both quite hungry, we decided to head to City Tavern for lunch first, then do the sight seeing.

Week Four - Southeast Sat, 11/6 - Fri, 11/12

Week Five - Mid Atlantic 11/13 - Fri, 11/19

Week Six - Long Island Sat, 11/20 - Fri, 11/26

Week Seven - Midwest Sat, 11/27 - Fri, 12/3

Week Eight - Midwest Sat, 12/4 - Fri, 12/10

Week Nine - Las Vegas Sat, 12/11 - Fri, 12/17

Week Ten - California Sat, 12/18 - Fri, 12/24

The City Tavern, above, is a restaurant and a reconstruction of the tavern John Adams called the 'most genteel' in America.  Waiters and waitresses were dressed in period attire.  The food served was made from ingredients of the time period.  In other words, they didn't have avacados or italian sausages.  They boasted being America's first gourmet restaurant.  I'm thinking Laura would have liked it here.

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We walked down towards Elfreth's Alley.  On the way we stopped and visited Christ Church.  This was a little freaky because they had graves both outside and inside the church.  I tried hard not to step on any but it was difficult.

Elfreth's Alley is America's oldest, continuous residental street.  We took a tour of one of the houses and walked through a garden that used to house the public water supply and out-house. I'm thinking automatic plumbing and the flush toilet bowl has to be one of the better inventions of the nineteenth century.

Posted:  10/20/04 Updated:  12/1/04