Philadelphia - Citizens Bank Park

On Saturday we headed back to the Cherry Hill Diner for a late breakfast/early lunch before starting our day in Philadelphia.  We drove towards downtown and toured a few of Philadelphia's historical places, including Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.  Later, we realized we had only taken one picture of this historic area and that was Kevin with a statue of the Philly Phanatic.

We then drove to the Philadelphia Art Museum, made most famous by the Rocky movies.  We took a picture of the Rocky statue at the base of the stairs and Tina took pictures of Kevin running up the stairs "Rocky" style.

It was now about time to head to Citizens Bank Park for the Saturday night game, but we decided to give the cheese steaks another shot.  We went to a place, Jim's Steaks, which seems to be more touted by the locals than Geno's or Pat's.  Jim's is located in the very eclectic South Street area that we plan to revisit in future travels to Philadelphia.  There was a very long line at Jim's, which seemed like a good sign.  The line moved extremely slow, but the meat and sandwiches looked pretty good, so we waited for nearly an hour to get our cheese steaks.  We took the cheese steaks to the stadium parking lot and were once again extremely disappointed.  The meat was dry and flavorless.  Zero for two for cheese steaks this Philly trip, but I'm sure we will give them another shot the next time we visit.

It was raining as we ate our cheese steaks in our car at the Citizen Bank Park's parking lot and we really feared a rain-out.   We ate our sandwiches and then proceeded into the stadium.  The rain had stopped as we walked to the stadium and it turned out to be a nice evening.  The stadium is very nice and the Philadelphia fans, especially in the upper levels where we had seats, were very boisterous and energetic.  It is a quite an enjoyable experience watching a Phillie's game, if only to see the antics of the Philly Phanatic.  The Phillies crushed the Washington Nationals 11-3.

Once the game ended we made our way back to our car.  The sports complex in South Philadelphia is massive as the football stadium and basketball/hockey arenas are located nearby.  The parking lots are also massive and we (Kevin) got a little disoriented and we ended up taking the long way to car, much to Tina's dismay.  We eventually made it back to the car and on the freeway back to New Jersey.  We had to stop at the Cherry Hill Diner for a third time in two days for a box full of deserts to take back to the room.