Last weekend, I got to spend time with my second family: Kristin’s! So let’s see what brought the sparkle with them! ✨

For starters, if you don’t know, Kristin was one of my best friends, and she passed away last September. As things neared the end, I spent a lot of time with her family. They are wonderful and have welcomed me with open arms! Anyway, Kristin’s sister and her family were in town last weekend, and they (and Kristin’s bf) invited me to go to Philly with them! 😭 How nice!

We started out at Fireman’s Hall Museum, which I didn’t even know existed, but is the perfect place to go when you have a firetruck-obsessed boy in tow, haha!

Look at this awesome stained glass window!

I asked Kristin’s bf Rod, who is a photographer, to take a picture of me in front of the window… not thinking about how he would have to change his fancy camera configuration to deal with the backlighting. What a rube! 🤦🏼‍♀️

Its rainbow glow was gorgeously reflecting all over the place! I couldn’t appropriately capture it (aside from this picture, sort of), but boy, did I try. 😂

Next, we walked down to Penn’s Landing, which included a stop at the rides at Spruce Street Harbor. I have been on a serious Mario music kick (like I’m legitimately thinking of getting a gaming console because I REALLY want to play!), so I was in my element!

In LOVE with this picture! Also, does anyone remember Wave Race 64?! 😂

Then we went to the Independence Seaport Museum to tour a submarine and a ship! (Again: peak boy entertainment, haha.) It was all pretty cool, even though I am not well-versed in seafaring vessels!

All of my yoga really came in handy on the sub!

Literally no idea what any of this stuff behind me is. 😂

Lastly, on our walk back to the car, we ended up at Race Street Pier, conveniently in time for golden hour—so I made Rod take a picture of me. I need to keep him on retainer for all blog pictures!