Crew and Philly

Philadelphia was the home to the first congressional state house, was the first capitol and is also the home to the liberty bell. We went into the building used as the first congressional state house and the first capitol building. We saw the place in the congressional state house where Washington saw sworn into a second term and also peacefully gave power to Jefferson at the end of his second term. We also went into the room where the independence was read and signed. Who signed the largest? When John Hancock made the largest and most stylish signature saying “Now the king of England can see for himself!” years later while Jefferson in Paris, Washington got a group together to write a constitution. During the talks no press was allowed so, the group could talk without fear of reading the post the next day and finding the insults that had said to another congressman repeated. Not all of the congressmen chose to sign the constitution these people were called deserters. Benjamin Franklin was present during these heated debates. He also observed the half sun on Gorge Washington’s chair wondering if the sun was setting or rising on the new country. At the end of the debates when what would be included in the constitution was decided, Franklin was happy to say that the sun was a rising one.

the court room washingtons inaguration

The chair!

ben meets Zoe the author of his least favorite blog. 

We also drove to New Jersey to meet an old friend named Debbie and her Portuguese water dog named Crew. The first day we played with Crew and took her mini cooper (Convertible, lots of begging for the top down every time we got in. I succeeded a fair amount of the time! Boyah!) Out to take mom to her 52^nd birthday celebration. The next day I broke out her X- box connect which she quote-on-quote “Got for research.” I don’t believe her but if she did I wouldn’t mind being one of her test subjects. Then we went to the twin lights tower which are two lighthouses at the top of a small mountain next to the ocean. Then we drove back to Debbie’s house and exchange my grandmother for a dog. (Sorry! I just had to say that!) Anyways then we took Crew top downing to a small strip of sand next to a pier and the dumping ground of many of the boats that had been washed in to the middle of the bay or onto the beach by Sandy. The next day I played with the X-box connect until about 12:00 when we took Crew out to the huge beach on the ocean. Crew was having the time of his life running into the wakes and laying down in puddles. We spent a long time having fun at the beach and then went back to Debbie’s and left early the next day.

at the beach with Debbie and the Crewster

crew being funny

Zoe,
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