senior week / final days in philly.

so i finished my last exams on tuesday, and have really just been having a blast since. here is a quick update with some pictures.

philadelphia city hall.

cricket and i took a tour of philadelphia - taking in all the sights one last time before we leave the city. we started off at the liberty bell and independence hall and made our way to center city and city hall. mattH&co. took us down to the navy yard where we had lunch at the urban outfitters headquarters, which was super cool. afterwards, cricket and i made stops at the eastern state penitentiary and philadelphia zoo. first of all, i had no idea philadelphia had a zoo. and secondly, it is a pretty awesome zoo! (= the penitentiary was really cool but still a little eerie - i definitely would not want to go for their haunted house on halloween, or at night for that matter.

eastern state penitentiary.

al capone's cell in eastern state.

of course there was walnut walk, the annual senior bar crawl that starts at 2nd&chestnut at 2pm and ends at smoke's at 40th&walnut at 10pm. it was quite a crazy time, and i was introduced to a new drink, the dirty hoe : hoegaarden and framboise (raspberry beer). really tasty acutally. AND, chef robert irvine from the food network's dinner:impossible was at one of our stops : the black sheep.

me, cricket, tim and keith at irish pub.

jason and i at new deck.

friday night was making time at pure - probably my last making time ever! the night actually started off with me, liz and erica going to a penndesign party at mattK and rayD's, then we proceeded over to the gayborhood for everyone's favorite monthly dance party. i actually stayed until the very end this time - so proud - and i even remembered to bring earplugs so i can actually hear today.

joey, jared, jeeyun, aj @ making time.

liz and i being ridiculous as usual @ making time.

saturday i went with mattH to the 2nd annual kensington kinetic sculpture derby, which was so awesome. so many amazing and crazy pieces. i also got a really bad sunburn because i hadn't realized how long we were going to be out in the sun - at least i was wearing a sleeveless top so i don't have a farmer's tan. ;)

i met up with lily, her friends and her dad at lacroix in the rittenhouse hotel for her graduation dinner. it was a great time - the food was great, many a laugh - and the two of us even got little complimentary deserts since we're graduating. luckily, lily will be in LA for the next couple months so we will be able to hang out before she leaves for south africa again.

lily and i at lacroix.