Philly MOA

As of today we are officially members of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (you know, where Rocky ran up the stairs). We get free admission to the museum for a year, and free admission to various events they have - all for a small donation, of course. It's nice to be supporting the arts now that we're out of school. We almost feel like contributing members of society! Anyway, I guess every Friday night they showcase a local jazz band at the MOA, so Alex is pretty excited about that.

We went to the Washington DC Temple for a Stake temple trip last weekend. The DC temple is the largest temple in the world, and there's a big visitors center which is nice to take new members to. After the session we were starving, so we headed into Silver Spring and ate at a Chinese restaurant. It was fun to be in Maryland, and I was telling Alex stories of my time living there with Dan and Ashley. We found a farmer's market on the side of the road near the temple and stopped to buy some tomatoes and peaches. I love that there are farmer's markets everywhere out here!

We decided to stop in Baltimore on the way back to Philly and drove around trying to find a German bakery that Alex read about on the internet. Amazingly we found it - Alex's directions were that it was on a street that started with a B and it was a diagonal road...Anyway, we bought a peach cake and a schmearkase, which apparently translates to cottage cheese in German, but it was more like a cheesecake. They were both great, but the schmearkase was amazing!