So Sara, Daniel, and I were coming back from downtown one night and we stumbled upon a lot of people at the Falls Bridge...which is about a mile from our house. We quickly realized it was for the lighting of the bridge (which it has never been lit in its whole history so this was a momentous event), so we decided to stop and participate.
I should probably backtrack a moment. Daniel is another Lasallian Volunteer who serves in Albany, NY. He was down for the weekend visiting with another volunteer. Anyway we pulled over and got to be a part of quite an experience. The lighting of the bridge itself was kind of a let down...not that spectacular but at least we could say we were there....but we did get to see most of the major Philadelphia and Pennsylvania politicians while we there...and I don't just mean see. I was about five feet away from all of them...you can tell in the pics below how close we were.
You will see our newly elected Mayor Michael Nutter, Governor George Rendell, and Senator Arlen Specter. It was pretty sweet. I could have pretty much reached out and touched any of them at a given moment. We tried to shake Michael Nutter's hand but some crazy girl started complaining to him about parking in her neighborhood...I wanted to say, "Look I know you can't find a parking spot but go talk to your neighborhood rep or something...your wasting the Mayors time and stealing my handshake." Which she did...oh well we at least got to see all of them in person...
Check out the pics....
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