Philly 2

Moving on…we then went to the former home of Betsy Ross (she sewed the US flag). That was interesting. The stairs were narrow and seemed rather precarious, but I made it up and down them alive. After that, we walked by the US Mint and also by where Ben Franklin was buried. It is an interesting feeling standing by the grave of someone who has done so much for the United States. We didn’t stay there long, because we had to go to our tour of Independence Hall. That was pretty cool, but I was expecting a little more. We went into one room, and then went into the room where men committed treason by signing their name to the Declaration of Independence, which document started our freedom from “taxation without representation.” I remember hearing a story about the signing, that the men in the room would close the windows while they were discussing and arguing (and probably when they were signing the document too), so I thought it would be kind of interesting to take a picture looking out the window to see what they would have seen had they looked outside. It turns out, the picture I took looked nothing almost nothing like what they would have seen, because all I could see were tall buildings…oh well, the picture turned out nice (thanks Dal for the compliment).
After we saw the enjoyable Independence Hall, we went and saw the Liberty Bell. That was very interesting, the display had a long of significances about what a bell means, but I can’t recall why they call it the Liberty Bell. It was cool to see though.