My mom is doing a lot of genealogy right now. When we told her we were going to University of Pennsylvania the first thing she said was, "Oh, I can visit you and do family history." Yes that is right. We just happen to live in a city where my mom goes on family history trips. Actually, this works out great for us. We get to see my mom more this way. About a month ago my mom and my aunt Wendy came on one of these trips.
They did spend their first day with me. I convinced them that they should buy a Living Social deal with me for 1/2 off tickets to the
Philadelphia Museum of Art (#2), i.e. the one with the stairs Rocky climbs. They had a really cool exhibit called Rembrandt and the Face of Christ that I've been dying to go see. The exhibit of Rembrandt's paintings was amazing! And the rest of the museum was the coolest art museum I've ever been too. They had entire rooms made to reflect rooms from around the world. We visited China, Japan, India, England, France, and Spain, just to name a few, in a matter of hours. It was a little breathtaking to see all the detail that went into these rooms.
And any trip to the Art Museum wouldn't be complete without seeing Rocky (#10).
The rest of the trip was mostly spent on family history, eating good food including two Iron Chef restaurants (Garces' Distrito and Bobby Flay's Bobby's Burger Palace), and hanging out. We might let them back for another "family history" trip if they promise to have as much fun with us again.
