Philly Day 2: A trip down Benjamin Franklin Parkway

We didn't actually have an entire "day 2" to spend in Philly but we woke up early and decided we should try to see the Rocky Statue and Love Park before we got back on another train to head to NYC. We grabbed some coffee from a local coffee shop and made our way to Love Park where we noticed that the Rocky Statue was just down a little road called Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It looked really far away on the map but we figured we could see it so it couldn't be that far away.

Starting at Love Park (in the background you can see the tincy weency Philadelphia Museum of Art).

PS do you know what Landon loves? (correct answer: the Phillies)

Thank you Robert Indiana for such a beautiful piece!

After about 20 photos with the Love Statue from every angle, we started our venture down Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It looks farther away than it really was, plus the walk was beautiful!

Landon and I decided to play a game called pick out your favorite flag and tell each other why. There was a lot to chose from.

Luckily, all the flags had the name of the country they belong too My favorite flag was the Lebanon flag. Can you guess why?

DUH it looks like a Christmas Tree

At the end of the flags you are greeted by the large and beautiful Philadelphia Museum of Art. TADUHHHHH. At this point, Landon just spotted the Rocky statue and he wants to run towards it, but he contains himself.

Well he contained himself till he got to the statue, then it was pose like Rocky time....see I told you.

And of course I had to have my turn.

Next time we're in Philly we're doing a do over on this photo, Landon will be dressed in full Rocky get up, HE PROMISED.

PS he is fake running, kind of lame don't you think?

Spotted, the real Rocky. And by "real" I mean a young man from Italy (I suspect anyway) who had his friend film him doing the entire Rocky bit.  He looked pretty good, grey sweats, gym shoes and of course the black hat.

I keep watching for his video to be posted on YouTube, I've seen others but no such luck on this guys yet.

Conclusion: Rocky's foot is the average of my foot combined with my husbands. Do you agree?

Beautiful right? Well it was until we realizes we had about 20 minutes to walk all the way back!

And so we made the beautiful trek back, all so we could check out of our hotel, cab to the train station where we would board the train and head to Penn Station in NYC.