City of Brotherly Lust
EDIT: Well, here sits this half-baked blog for which I never managed to click “publish”, written two years ago. I guess better late than never? I was logging in to see if I still remember how to use WordPress, and then I stumbled upon it:
Ted is a knowledgeable, funny, interesting, and just generally over-all awesome tour guide. I took the tour on the very busy Saturday before Halloween. I chose the Dark Philly Adult Night Tour (Vampires, Sex, & Ghosts). Even though it was probably the busiest night for tours, our group was small with just 15 people. I was so grateful I chose the 8:30 tour, as I saw the 8 PM tour pushing off, and there were probably about 60+ people on that one. There were split into two groups, but even just one of those groups had double the attendees as my small group had. I much preferred the smaller, intimate setting. Ted had finished another tour (I believe a pub crawl) right before ours, and there was a woman on that tour who was drunk and cackling. We could hear her carrying on well after her tour ended. I guess it’s safe to say she enjoyed the tour.
My favorite stories were the stories of Washington Square Park and “Leah”, Edgar Allan Poe, the “merkin” and beaver “wigs”, the City Tavern ghosts, and of course the story of how Martha and George Washington met. That would be through the obituaries, which I find to be a brilliant alternative to online dating…..seriously…..this means the previous spouse is dead, so no drama there….and also possibly gained some sort of inheritance. I am not sure why I didn’t ever think of this myself.
At any rate, it was a great night for a tour. It was lightly raining, and even though there were many people out and about, it didn’t ruin the ambiance of the dark side of Philly, I appreciated the raunch (we were forewarned that it was a very adult tour, which is what drew me to it in the first place!)
Also for good measure, earlier in the day I visited the Mütter Museum, which is a medical museum with strange specimens and oddities. (See photo below). Since it’s been over two years since I started this blog, I honestly don’t remember what else I wanted to say about it. It was way too crowded and very warm in there, but I appreciated the theme.
As for the tour, thanks guys, for a well-run show. I enjoyed every minute of it.
