Philadelphia 2011

We didn’t get down to Philadelphia as much as we usually do in 2011, what with moving and baby stuff, but there were a few Phillies games we went down there for, basically in May and June.

We (or some of us at least) ate a Pork Scrapple slider at White Dog in University City:

Before we installed the toilet at Kawama, and before we even ordered the toilet on Amazon, we checked out toilets at the Lowe’s in South Philadelphia. They want you to know that it’s not too difficult to install them yourself:

Just across the parking lot at IKEA (where we bought pulls for the cabinets) you get a nice view of the S.S. United States from the Meatball Chamber:

At the Braves-Phillies game, we saw how much of the Spectrum was finally gone:

Later in May, I think I took this picture because I was surprised how expensive gas was. That seems reasonable today . . .

At the day game on the 21st against the Rangers, it was just after the end of the world and everyone was still a little anxious:

And at the game in June against the Cubs, expectations about the season were sky high:

Of course we know how that turned out:

Phoenix, Winter/Spring 2011

On the airplane (new page for Airplanes, by the way) . . . some strange things. Here, for example, is the way the Royal Jordanian in-flight magazine described Eat, Pray, Love:

And here is the way the Delta in-flight magazine described it:

We also marveled at the come-hither look the lady on the Delta fasten seat belt announcement had. Hubba hubba:

In Phoenix, we went back to Hance Park and saw the I-10 plaque installed there. Under Hance Park (aka Deck Park) is the final link in the transcontinental interstate, completed in 1992:

A new page for the Palm Tree Stealth Monopole at 15th Avenue and Camelback Road. I love these things:

In April, we had to fly through O’Hare and saw one of these old school Airfones. I almost forgot about these things:

We ate at Culver’s (nearest location to NYC is about 473 miles west in Reynoldsburg, Ohio).
We saw the D-Backs vs. Giants at Chase Field early in the season when no one — no one! — knew that the D-Backs would be that good:

That Poor Lifeguard House

Just saw the WABC 7 footage of the lifeguard house at Long Beach bobbing around against the boardwalk:

Here’s what the house used to look like when we were there a few years back:

Looks like Long Beach is getting hit very hard — sad to see . . .

Also, it seems that all the television crews are stationed at the Allegria Hotel, which used to be an old-age facility called King David Manor: