7-8-2010

On my way to my sissy office job this morning, I witnessed what a real man's job entails.

I give this man all together too much of my money.

Continuing the trend of places I eat at too often, we went to the Happy Dog for dinner to see this man make everyone angry. The reactions were incredibly underwhelming.

We also got this little toy to take on the road next week.

7-7-2010

Preparing for departure.

7-6-2010

Fun with double exposures.

7-5-2010

Breakfast with Eric, Tiffany, and the baby before spending the rest of the day on the highway. I already feel like I put in as many miles as some truckers, but things are about to get even wilder next week...

7-4-2010

All I could eat veggie dim sum for breakfast (I don't mean to keep talking about vegetarian things, but there's just so much good stuff here). Then I got to fulfill a lifelong goal of being eaten by a colossal squid at the Academy of Natural Sciences. They had a whole show about squids and other deep sea creatures in addition to their other cool stuff. This display initiated a facts-of life conversation between a three year old girl and her father which was one of the best conversations I've ever heard in my whole life. Rahh. It was so super hot outside (97 degrees I think) that people made an awesome water park out of a public fountain. HI!.

We walked around the festivities/sea of people/cops where the firetrucks were making sprinklers so people didn't melt. We hid out in the shade (hopefully this pretty makes up for the dinosaur picture, Nicole).

I saw a little bit of The Roots concert, then parked amid the sea of people and listened to the Goo Goo Dolls play until it got really dark for fireworks (really, what kind of photo blog would this be without the manditory pictures of fireworks). Lily didn't make it that far. Then it was a fun ride home.

7-3-2010

Steve's for (vegetarian) cheesesteaks and Rita's for water ice on South street. This scooter rally reminded me that I want a Vespa.

Shopping at the giant four floor flagship of Nicole's favorite store. I was more focused on local tags.

Then back to South street for dinner at Horizons, the best all vegetarian restaurant I've ever eaten at. The food was so good I was too busy eating it to take pictures of anything, but I did take a picture of Eric's boot drink.

7-2-2010

Woke up and went to Zern's flea market outside of Philadelphia. Beyond the standard flea market awesome, we found candy, corndogs, cameras, and cheap thrills. She was there, he was there, and they had some Pez.

Then it was downtown for (amazing) dinner at one of Tiffany and Eric's favorite spots. Then gelato on the street for a pretty perfect night.

7-1-2010

After work, we spent the evening on the highway headed out to Philadelphia Pennsylvania, just the two of us. Roadtrip symmetry. We journeyed through tunnels and toll booths.

We finally reached our destination and Nicole got her very first look at baby Lily. Then they chatted and caught up over drinks.

6-30-2010

Lunch and a fine art experience (these paintings encircle the perimeter of the restaurant).

6-29-2010

Creeper in the corner.
Going places.

6-28-2010

I finished my film.

Flowers.
Farm.
Where I get my film developed.

Then Nicole made a blog worthy dinner.

6-27-2010

Recently I was gifted a bunch of fancy slide film that I've been really excited to try shooting and cross processing. This film is like a rare delicacy compaired to the cheap expired stuff I bought in bulk a while ago, so I was really excited to load some Elite Chrome 160T and take pictures of weird colorful stuff like this. I then went out of town to hangout with friends. I don't really know what to say about this.

I feel like I'm always on the highway between various cities.

6-26-2010

We went to the park, found wild berries, pretty but broken cameras at antique stores (twice), and got cup cakes from a Food Network featured place.

6-25-2010

This may look like a very important and serious business meeting, but really it's a kick ball game strategy session. My company was invited to the Indians' stadium to play kick ball on their field for a charity event. We got to do stupid stuff in the actual dugout the player sit in. We also went exploring in the stadium and found where where the players pee during games. Our team even progressed far enough to play the kid that started the charity organization's team. We didn't actually win the tournament, but this is my blog so I can pretend we did.

The after party felt very much like a fraternity, followed by even more drinks at another bar and a very dynamic walk back to the car.