July 31

After we left the hotel (by car since we were going home after the museum), we stopped at a local grocery to buy some fruit. It was an ACME store so Wily posed outside it (first image- note that they proudly have a sale on Coke)



Our final museum in Philadelphia was the National Liberty Museum (second image)

It is a new museum also (like the NMAJH).

It has an eclectic variety of exhibits, some of which have essentially nothing to do with liberty (e.g., there is a historic collection of stoneware used at the White House).

They do have a tribute to the firemen, police and other security and public safety officials who lost their lives in the 9-11 atrocity.

They also have a display of numerous medal of honor recipients and people who have battled tyranny.

Finally, they have their own Liberty Bell which actually works. The ticket official took a picture of Ann and me in front of the liberty bell but managed to block the bell (third image).

After the museum we drove through the University City on the other side of town and then home. 
 
On the way, along I-95 in Pennsylvania south of Philadelphia, there are a number of "I hate Steven Singer" billboards (see image). I had been on this interstate section before a few years ago and had seen the same signs. Apparently, Steven Singer is a jeweler and the sign grew out of an incident that resulted in a please wife, a new child and a husband exhausted from the care of the new child.

We went on and at the Fort McHenry tunnel toll plaza I got in the EZ pass lane by mistake, couldn't pay and thus went through without paying. I'll get a bill in the mail for the toll plus and administrative charge.