Started off in Chinatown and walked past this on the way to the PA convention center for the race expo
My mission was to eat a cheese steak during some point of my trip. I found a place right next to the convention center that had them. This was really good, I loved the fresh diced bell peppers.
This little place had a wall mural. Not too sure what it is but it's interesting
I am not a "city person" ... I would rather live in the country than in a crowded area, but I can appreciate occasional trips to big cities. I like looking at all the different types of buildings.. such as this church
Next I headed to my hotel which was in a nice area, alot of high end shopping and popular restaurants around. Before checking in at my hotel I had to stop by Insomnia Cookies and get one of these
This was a Smores cookie. It was amazing. They serve their cookies warm, so by the time I walked to my hotel, got checked in, spent awhile getting to the 7th floor due to a broken elevator, then waiting another 30 minutes to eat the cookie ... it was still gooey in the center and it was perfect.
I got up at 5am this morning to make plenty of time for the 8am start. Checked out, went to the nearby Dunkin Donuts which had just opened, but they made me wait forever because they weren't ready yet. I walked to my bus stop and waited. The bus came and went. Didn't realize I needed to flag the driver down.. duh! Whatever, I don't know how to bus! Thank god for smartphones, found another bus nearby and got down to the race area. I'm so bad at getting around cities. Thankfully driving wasn't so bad, Philly is pretty simple to drive in unlike Baltimore which is just sloppy in my opinion.
I snapped this crappy picture of the area right before the race!
After the race I was on the hunt for some food. My car was parked near the hotel I stayed at, and to simplify things I looked for food around that same area. Found a place that serves wraps, and after finding a bus that goes there (detours were in place because of the race which made getting around a bit more difficult) I arrived at the wrap place and got a chicken fajita wrap. It's huge. Was really good, the beer in the picture was nasty so it was replaced with some good ole familiar Miller Light.
A few weeks ago I read an article about the best donut places around the country and it just so happened one of them was right near my hotel. Stopped by Federal Donuts!
They had deluxe donuts and hot donuts. As well as fried chicken - for a minute I felt like I was back in the south. A hot donut sounded good and I wanted something unique to this place that I couldn't get anywhere else, so strawberry lavender it was.
It was a warm cake-style donut. Pretty good!
Near the donut shop just so happened to be a running store! So I popped in to check it out. It sells alot of the same things my work sells, didn't buy anything because I can get it all much cheaper, but it was nice to pop in and look around. I like how their signs say PR
Finally I stopped at Starbucks on my way out to pick up an iced coffee for the road and also got the Philadelphia mug. I am starting a collection - the other mug I have is from Seoul, my husband got it for me while he was stationed over there
And that's pretty much it. Not in town to see any sights really, just there to run a race and check out some stuff along my way! I had fun, although I don't like cities that much it was exciting to be in one for a little bit. But now I'm glad to be back home!
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