Mass Mayhem and a Little Philly

So Spencer said he was going to work on the shed and then crazy little things started happening. Like these red boxes started appearing all over the back of the house. Translation: more expensive, necessary (up to interpretation haha) tool buying.

And the back room started looking like this (okay actually it was already looking pretty crazy and getting a giant dog crate didn't help but now it's even crazier!!).


And then I left for Philly and the came back to this!! Half the roof off the shed and our yard looking like it got hit by a tornado! I think we were just read to see some more mass destruction at the "Hell" House! It'd been clean and tidy (ha what an exaggeration) for too long! So here we go, round too of reno here we come. Except this one we are actually doing ourselves!

Okay so confession, so far it's been Spencer and David doing all the work, I've just been asking much all the beams and roofing materials are going to cost. I know I'm so helpful ;). But I promised I'd do the one the ground clean up. I am waaay to clumsy to get up on that roof! So looks like I've got a few days of shingle clean up coming up :).


So on another note: PHILLY!!

Hahah so this was our first stop thanks to the iPhone GPS which told us to get off the train . . . and then back on the same train . .. forty five minutes later! So first I fell on my butt after trying to sit on my suitcase and then we spent forty five minutes talking to a Conoco refinery worker who told us all the good places to go in Philly.

After getting back on the train, we headed to our sweet hotel which happened to be across the street from City Hall. Ta Da! Thanks to hotwire this was the view from our suite! Complete with a little kitchen and a maid to load the dishwasher for us if we were feeling lazy for the day. Man I love vacation :).
The next day it was off to hit up the historical sites (sorry no pictures I've already been here twice haha) and then off to south street to see the crazy shops.

Case in point. No explanation needed. And no I did not go inside haha, but it was intriquing haha. Then it was off to the italian market and the other market that was inside the convention center where we got all the fixings for Mexican!! Gluten free for Alisha ;). Looks like we cook the same things in Tulsa, the StL and Philly. Yumm!

On that note we also get really good coffee everywhere we go. Or at least try to. We had some really bad starbucks while trying to hunt down good coffee. But we did manage to find some yummy coffee across the street from the haunted house! Oops getting out of order haha.

First we went to church at 10th pres! And heard Sinclair Ferguson about Christ being the worship leader in a pretty sweet old church!

Then we hit up the metro which put us waaaay far away from the art museum so we took a little scenic walk and saw our next home. HA. In case you can't read it, it says "A Community of Presby's Inspired Life." Umm yes who knows what that means but I feel like I'm leaving a pretty inspired life haha.

After a lovely walk and a lovely time reading by the scoocool river (okay wrong spelling but that's what it sounds like haha) we hiked back to our hotel and then hopped in a cab to the Eastern State Penitentiary for a haunted house! Woo Hoo :). Yes I like being spooked!!

The next morning it was off to the top of City Hall where we decided to be five and leave grafitti in the dust coating the walls at the top. Hope the building security isn't reading this haha.

We also got some lovely orange "I'm a tourist" sticker which was our badge to get through security to the top. We promptly removed them after taking our cheesy "I'm a tourist" picture at the top :).
I love girl vacations!