Happy Birthday to....

ME!

My birthday was this past week and the kids and I decided we would go to Philadelphia to celebrate. They were bummed their Dad was away and wouldn't be coming so we decided to wait till Saturday to go. It turned out to be a wonderful day! We went to the Philadelphia Zoo and then for those "Famous Philly Cheese Steaks"

Unfortunately this would be our only picture of any elephants. The zoo had sent all of their elephants to live at other places because they did not have the proper space for them any longer. Elephants happen to be my favorite animal so I was sad not to see any.

The kids all enjoyed climbing on the statues.

GIRAFFES

More Statues!

My turtle talking to a sea turtle

All bear wanted to see was the cats! Lions, Tigers, Cheetahs, Leopards. He was fascinated with them all.

Then we did the touristy thing and went to Pat's AND Geno's to get our Cheese Steaks. We ordered a couple from each place and tried them all to see whose was best. The kids thought they were DELICIOUS!! We were all so stuffed we could barely walk to the car.

And The Winner Was.....Pat's! We were 'almost' positive! LOL
Either way it was a fun day. I love to take day trips like this one with the kids. It made for a wonderful birthday celebration. I hope ten years from now I can still convince them to spend a day like this me.

Thank You guys for a day filled with wonderful memories!