Eastern State

I made it through finals! I haven't gotten all my grades back yet but so far I've gotten two A's. I have also moved back home. It has been a busy past few days moving back and getting settled in and I am taking a few days off to rest my brain before I try finding a job for the summer.

I woke up to a nice cool breeze blowing my curtains open and the sun was high in the sky. My parents and I decided we wanted to go eat outside on this beautiful day so we went over to Philly and ate at this adorable restaurant facing the Eastern State Penitentiary (they gave us complementary cookies at the end. Complementary. Cookies.). I've been wanting to visit the Eastern State Penitentiary again for quite some time because it's been years since I've last been there so my parents and I decided to head over after lunch.

For those of you who may not know, Eastern State is an old prison. It's been used in movies and music videos. Ghost Hunters also went there and supposedly saw a ghost. Al Capone was also locked up in here briefly. Pretty much: it's got a lot of history (and ghosts, if you believe in them).

I tried to take as many pictures as possible but my camera is pretty terrible and most of them turned out blurry. Here is a few of the ones that didn't seem too bad.

I kept asking my mom to take my picture because I really liked my outfit today and wanted to look chic against the crumbling building. She started to get annoyed with me!

I don't know why they chose to put this chair in the empty cell but I liked how it looked!

If you're ever in Philly, there's plenty of things you should check out (I mean, duh, the city is filled with history). But if you've already done the typical liberty bell/betsy ross house/etc. sort of things, you should definitely stop by Eastern State. They have really done a great job with restoring it throughout the years. I was impressed by how much more of it is open to the public now and it's very well maintained. It's also eery and historic, aka the best combination of things to be!