We visited the city of brotherly love for 4 days last week so I could attend the American Dietetic Association's Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. BYU sent me (well, they paid for some of the trip) to present my research at a poster session. The poster session went well, and we managed to squeeze in some site-seeing along with the educational sessions of the conference. Ben was a good sport and tolerated all of the "dietitian stuff" very well and kept Paige entertained while I tried to enjoy the meetings. Our hotel was in the historic district of Philadelphia so we were really close to some interesting sites. We visited and toured Independance Hall and the Betsy Ross house; and we saw the Liberty Bell and Benjamin Franklin's grave. We went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner one night and on our last night there two of my BYU professors watched Paige so that Ben and I could go out to dinner by ourselves! Ben chose McCormick & Schmick's - very tasty!
Paige was a very good girl on our flights and on the whole trip really. Just in the last week or so, she got her two bottom middle teeth and is mastering the army crawl! She has also finally decided that she likes to stand, no more wobbly legs :) Sadly, she also has her first ear infection.
4 comments:
I loved the pictures and seriously your hair looks SO great!! I'm amazed you were able to do all those things in just a few days. I hope everything went well.
i just blew up the picture of your research poster to check it out. you are a real dummy.
Isn't Philly a cool city! Its too bad you didn't have time to go to Valley Forge, its awe inspiring!
Definitely looks like fun- how nice to have some volunteer babysitting for a nice night out in a cool town!
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