Much brotherly love

What I learned in Philly:

* Melissa looks super cute as a soldier of the revolutionary War
* Steven Singer is a jeweler that has a keen sense for advertising
* Cosi Latte will scorch the skin right off your mouth for weeks
* Jim's cheesesteaks are giant and possibly a cause for childhood obesity (hey, everything is, so I figure it is too)
* You can't chew gum at independence hall.
* Some seemingly innocent pieces of road lead you to Jersey and then laugh as they charge you 3 dollars to make a U-turn to get back to Philly
* Melissa and I have a few too many things in common
* If I was strong enough I coulda stole a bag of quarters from the mint that was worth 50,000 smackers.
* Ben Franklin wasn't paying much attention during the debate of the constitution, he was day dreaming about suns and furntiture
* It stinks a rather lot
* Quakers don't evangelize but they can't figure out why they're numbers drop every year
* Betsy Ross fibbed a lot
* The Liberty bell was cast in Britain. Ok, we just stole ourselves away from them, my guess they were kinda mad...and we wonder why the bell was faulty...
* I could grow to like a mini-van
* While the story of Valley Forge is quite inspiring, the acutal site just really isn't. It's just a big pasture with a couple cabins scatered about, most of which aren't authentic
* William Penn can sure lay out a city, too bad he didn't settle in Lafayette.
* US Airways Pilots can acutally open the door to the jet and yell at some ground guy to get that hunk o' junk truck the bleep out of his way.
* US Airways telephone operators can sense eagerness to return home in a persons voice and thus relieve them of 150 of their dollars in exchange for the opportunity to ride in a mostly empty airplane 12 hours prior to the flight they actually should be on that's overbooked.
* Eik is a super fun travel buddy.