Day of from work!

Like most people in America, Eric and I had off work on Monday. We had thrown around the idea of going swimming, and we were excited when Adam called us to see if we wanted to go to Devil's Pool.
None of us had been there, but we had heard about it. It's a swimming hole located in Wissahickon Valley. Eric and I actually went hiking there a few weeks ago, and had been wanting to go back.

Eric and I hopped on our bikes and rode over to Adam's were we were greeted with a few friends. It was about 23 miles roundtrip to Devil's Pool, kind of far, but it was a lot easier to ride bikes then drive.



We rode on the Kelly drive path for most of the way.






Then we hopped on the Wissahickon Trail, which took us to Forbidden Drive, then we rode that the entire way. Part of the trail is paved, the other part isn't, which sucked.





We weren't too sure of where we were going, but figured we could figure it out. Eventually we stumbled upon a bunch of people and we were in the right spot.

They had a small cliff you could climb up and jump off of. Of course I slipped while climbing up and have giant scrapes all over my body.





The guys we were with were a lot braver with jumping off.


It was great to find a swimming hole not too far from the city.


Eric and I rode home, quickly changed, then rode our bikes to South Philly for dinner. We were too lazy to go to the grocery store and figured heading to Royal Tavern was a better option.
This definitely made riding 23 miles worth it.

bits of the weekend

wow, we actually had a fairly busy weekend.
friday night was low key. eric and i went out to dinner. the weather has been pretty rainy, so we had to get suited up in our rain gear.





we stopped by the foodery and picked up a bottle of beer for dinner.



i love byob.



and that was really it. we went to sleep early which was awesome.

saturday we went to wiz and d.marie's wedding! luckily it didn't really rain at all, but it was still pretty hot outside.





adam and juli


me and eric


rachael and kevin


me and juli


eric and his friends


eric and ian


they just had a bunch of cupcakes instead of cake.


which ended up on a lot of people's faces.


and congrats to wiz and d.marie!


sunday morning we met rachael and kevin for brunch at silk city. the outdoor part was pretty cool and reminded us of spider house in austin.


rachael ordered french toast scrapple. i took a photo of it since scrapple really isn't found outside of philadelphia. read about scrapple here. side note, eric and i actually found vrapple (vegan scrapple) which we have yet to try.




after brunch we decided to go to atlantic city and go to the beach! i had been wanting to go to atlantic city, and to the beach, so this accomplished both.


it is sort of like a mini-vegas.






the water wasn't too cold, which was nice. i lost my sunglasses though.


after swimming and hanging out for a while we went to the tropicana casino and played a few slots and ate some dinner. i successfully won 85 cents.