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Nov. 1st, 2008 10:25 pmA late Happy Halloween to all!
Yesterday morning I went to the Phillies parade. Two of my professors canceled class and I skipped the other two classes. I actually intended to go to my last class, thinking the parade would be done with plenty of time to get up to Temple, but no. Overall the whole thing was crowded and loud. And involved a lot of walking. The only Philly I saw and recognized was Victorino. I met up with my dad and his girlfriend and after the parade passed us we followed the the very large (and at that point, very drunken) crowd south towards the stadiums. Eventually I got bored with walking and figured I just would hop on the subway to head north again, but there was an insanely long line to get on the subway. I probably would have had to wait half and hour just to get on, so I walked back to City Hall instead.
I'm not a baseball fan so I didn't get much out of the whole thing. There was interesting thing I saw: I was going with the huge crowd through an area with lots of apartment building. On one corner there was a man at the 3d floor window and a group of women at the 2d floor window. The guys in the third floor is throwing random things out the window, spraying people with water and the crowd is cheering him on. Then he holds up a McCain sticker and the whole crowd starts booing. One of the women on the 2d floor leans out holding a large Obama sign and everyone cheers. The 3d floor guys disappears and returns with a pitcher of water that he dumps out the window onto the woman below him. She uses the Obama sign to shield herself. The 3d floor guys is now waiving a MaCain tshirt but someone throws a bottle at him (but doesn't actually hit him) and he retreats. It gave me a laugh.
Oh, and apparently the world's largest pinata is in Philadelphia right now. It's in this empty lot right on Broad Street. The parade went right past it and no one seemed to know why this 50 foot donkey pinata was there. I Googled and yeah, it's the world's largest pinata and tomorrow they're going to fill it with candy and bust it open.
I didn't do anything for Halloween night. I was super tired after the parade and just read ghost stories all night. I learned about wendigos and vowed never to go into the woods again. Hurray overactive imagination.
Now that Halloween's over I'm thinking about Christmas. Who needs Thanksgiving?
Yesterday morning I went to the Phillies parade. Two of my professors canceled class and I skipped the other two classes. I actually intended to go to my last class, thinking the parade would be done with plenty of time to get up to Temple, but no. Overall the whole thing was crowded and loud. And involved a lot of walking. The only Philly I saw and recognized was Victorino. I met up with my dad and his girlfriend and after the parade passed us we followed the the very large (and at that point, very drunken) crowd south towards the stadiums. Eventually I got bored with walking and figured I just would hop on the subway to head north again, but there was an insanely long line to get on the subway. I probably would have had to wait half and hour just to get on, so I walked back to City Hall instead.
I'm not a baseball fan so I didn't get much out of the whole thing. There was interesting thing I saw: I was going with the huge crowd through an area with lots of apartment building. On one corner there was a man at the 3d floor window and a group of women at the 2d floor window. The guys in the third floor is throwing random things out the window, spraying people with water and the crowd is cheering him on. Then he holds up a McCain sticker and the whole crowd starts booing. One of the women on the 2d floor leans out holding a large Obama sign and everyone cheers. The 3d floor guys disappears and returns with a pitcher of water that he dumps out the window onto the woman below him. She uses the Obama sign to shield herself. The 3d floor guys is now waiving a MaCain tshirt but someone throws a bottle at him (but doesn't actually hit him) and he retreats. It gave me a laugh.
Oh, and apparently the world's largest pinata is in Philadelphia right now. It's in this empty lot right on Broad Street. The parade went right past it and no one seemed to know why this 50 foot donkey pinata was there. I Googled and yeah, it's the world's largest pinata and tomorrow they're going to fill it with candy and bust it open.
I didn't do anything for Halloween night. I was super tired after the parade and just read ghost stories all night. I learned about wendigos and vowed never to go into the woods again. Hurray overactive imagination.
Now that Halloween's over I'm thinking about Christmas. Who needs Thanksgiving?
