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| Bella |
Well I woke myself at 6:30 AM so I could eat breakfast and take care the animals. They were quite friendly this morning. I took care the upstairs
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| Gizmo |
cats change the litters and let the dogs out twice. 730 crawled
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| The Animals |
around and I decided I would just take Uber all the way in and play it safe. Instead of taking the
brought walking to the Broad Street line and then going to Walnut Locust. I would just take over as far in as
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| Securtiy |
I could go. That would be front and south so that's what I did. Well I got off at front and south and walk to a
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| Advertisement |
nice coffee shop and finish editing yesterday blog. After that I went to Larry's place and met up
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| Bizarre |
with their friend and the pope is just leaving New York as we speak. We walked from Larry's house to the security area. Larry picked the
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| I Chilled Here |
a good spot he found last night through a security chief. It's a straight
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| Coffee Shop |
head view and we're on a hill so even if people sit in front of us we can still see.It's now almost noon
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| Homeland Security |
and it's really starting to fill up here at Independence Mall. They've a simulcast the mass at Saint Peter and Paul Basilica at this time. I'm with Larry and
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| Add caption |
friends sitting on top of the grassy knoll next to a tree.
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| This Morning |
It's nice because the hill is slanted up so we can see even though people are in front of us.
We are really close to the Independence Visitor Center. It has food, charging stations,and nice clean bathrooms. It
was really easy to get in The secured area and it is pretty relaxed. It's not
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| Early in the day |
that mayhem that you heard
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| Nice View |
about in the news. They got things really under control anybody's friendly and chillin. I met people
from Mexico and Venezuela while I was here. It's a little bit overcast but it's not supposed to rain till tomorrow.
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| Fellow Attendies |
That is only a 30 or 40% chance of the rain. Bob called just now. He plans to come over and visit
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| The Gang |
tomorrow around 10
or 11am. It's now very packed. It was pretty easy for us to get in and find a spot. We staked a claim
as you can see from the video. This will be a bunch of speakers before the pope shows up to speak around 4:30 so We are going to
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| Chilling Waiting for Pope |
listen to about 12 speakers before the Pope shows up. It is now 1242 he has just reported to St. Charles seminary.
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| Nice Crowed |
We just heard from the park ranger telling us about the Park service.. Now the Jumbotron has a commercial
for the Park Service😁. I guess somebody has to pay for it all this, so it looks like we're
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| Another View |
to have a bunch of commercials!! Now we have the same commercial in Spanish.
the opening
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| New Friends |
crap is coming to an end and the Pope should be here in about 4:30.
Apparently all the famous
singers will be at the Parkway.When the sun does come out it's pretty hot! It's getting to the point now where people just walk right right in the middle of us
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| Mayor Nutter |
sitting here. I could tell the long sitting in getting to
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| Pope Arriving |
us here. Well, the pope showed up on time and arrive to the door of independence mall.
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| My Photo of the Pope |
He spoke about immigration religious freedom
and and the effects of globalization. He spoke in Spanish and it was translated on the job Jumbotron for us in the audience. He was
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| Nice Jumbotron |
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| Panoramic View |
warmly received by the audience who was in rapt attention. At the end he led the audience into into
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| 2nd Panoramic View |
the our father. He let in English and it was really a very moving event right there. His talk was about 20 minutes
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| Fun is Had! |
. It was brief but he got his points across that's for sure. Well when it ended the crowd easily dispersed
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| Add caption |
down market Street. Since there was no cars and that kind of problem it was easy for everybody to walk
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| A Great Time |
down market and go to the EL or walk to their destination or go to the
as you can see from the video. This will be a bunch of speakers before the pope shows up to speak around 4:30 so We are going to
for the Park Service😁. I guess somebody has to pay for it all this, so it looks like we're
singers will be at the Parkway.When the sun does come out it's pretty hot! It's getting to the point now where people just walk right right in the middle of us
and hummus dip. It was really good. We watched the eyewitness
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