Weekend in Philly

Posted by Jen on Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 @ 12:56 am

I spent this past weekend in Philadelphia with a group of friends that I guess you would call my internet friends. I don’t really view them that way, however, because while I did meet them on the internet, they are “real” friends to me. We drive and fly to meet, we hang out, we share stories, we karaoke, we have lots of laugh. I talk to them every day even if it is just online, and they are some of the best people I’ve ever met.

That being said, this was the best trip we’ve had together yet. It was a complete riot. The adventures never stopped even up to the last minute on the train ride back. One of my favorite moments was on the way from the train station in Trenton to Philadelphia in my friend Cab’s car. We discovered we had a flat and pulled into a gas station parking lot. We must have looked like damsels in distress pulling all our luggage out of the trunk, searching for a spare and then trying to put our luggage back into the trunk because we didn’t know what to do. Right about the time when Cab began calling AAA, a man with a cane barreled up to us.

“Flat?” he yelled. We barely nodded before he was ordering us to empty the truck of all our luggage and insisting that we did indeed have a jack in the trunk. He ripped the car jack out of the trunk and proceeded to crank the car up and replace the flat tire with the spare. He finished changing the tire in record time and threw the flat, the jack and all our luggage back into the car. Then, he stormed off. He was the grumpiest good samaritan I have ever encountered. We dubbed him House.

Two of my friends were also using the weekend to record an audition tape for The Amazing Race. All of us got involved in the video, and we came up with a really rocking audition tape. I had a lot of fun with it because they let me be the camera-girl.

The above picture was from our karaoke night which was TONS of fun. We had an entire room reserved to our group for three hours so we were able to get lots of songs in. We probably would have sung more, but 85% of the book was written in Korean and none of us A) could read it or B) knew any Korean songs.

On the way home from karaoke night, I snapped this picture of a bookstore that I am definitely visiting if I’m ever in Philadelphia again.