My summer holiday is half over and I realized that I have not updated my blog at all since leaving Kazakhstan. So I give you a monster of a few of my favorite photos from the places I have been thus far.
First: an ominous warning from Philadelphia:
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| "Warning No [sane] person allowed beyond this point" |
My trip began in Philadelphia where I took a week-long course at Villanova, saw some Independence Day festivities, and caught up with old friends.
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| The Independence Day Parade in front of Independence Hall |
My next stop was two conversation filled nights with LB in New York which also featured trips to the Botanical Gardens, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and some wonderful Gelato.
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| A fountain (People of Mer-ville, BEWARE) in the Botanical Gardens |
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| A magical back staircase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Cloud City (unfortunatly sans Lando Calrissian) atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Finally, my travels took me to DC where I made the obligatory pilgrimage to the Lincoln Memorial and met up with my friend Ruth.
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| A boy reading the Gettysburg Address at the Lincoln Memorial |
I feel as though I have not really done justice to the trip in this post. Perhaps I will have to add a postscript later (don't feel obligated to laugh at the pun. No pun-laughing required here).
