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City of Brotherly Love

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Long time no see, and this time I have actual travel updates for you instead of just yarn! Over Memorial Day weekend Wil and I visited Philadelphia for the wedding of a grad school friend (congrats, Mary!!). My insane desire to read every sign was thwarted by the limited amount of time we had in Philly, but it was still pretty awesome. We arrived on Friday and wandered around the neighborhood until we found a local who pointed us to a Yemeni restaurant...it was an amazing choice. The food was incredible, and we got enough bread to make breakfast all weekend (along with a little meat, cheese, and jam from the grocery)! Our apartment was in this neighborhood, which is super old and super adorable. The building we stayed in was built in the 1850s. Counterclockwise from top: shakshuka, some kind of lamb stew served "volcano style", and so.much.bread. On Saturday my phone clocked us at about 10 miles of walking, though I'd say it's more - we did a lot of slo