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Bastille Day pictures
Jul. 11th, 2010 06:08 pmWe had a great time! (See where all my bitching gets me?) It ended up being just me and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rose_bertin (surprise, surprise), but the morning rain cleared out, and it was only about 80 degrees (except on the roof of the Penitentiary...), a temperature that the people in multiple layers appreciated!
The Bastille Day celebrations at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philly aren't very big at all - it's basically a street fair a couple blocks long, with food, French flags, and booze, and then at 5.30 they have a Monty Python-esque "reenactment" of the storming of the Bastille and they behead Marie Antoinette -- actually a watermelon. But it's all very silly and good fun, plus, hello, an excuse for me to dress up!
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There are a few more pics in the Photobucket album (you can take the ones you want from there, Katy, so they're not squished down to Facebook-size!)
Edit: Aha, link to the news clip where you can see us! Sort of. We're to the left of Marie Antoinette...okay, just look for the big hats. You can see me throwing an armful of cake to the masses, haha.
rose_bertin (surprise, surprise), but the morning rain cleared out, and it was only about 80 degrees (except on the roof of the Penitentiary...), a temperature that the people in multiple layers appreciated!The Bastille Day celebrations at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philly aren't very big at all - it's basically a street fair a couple blocks long, with food, French flags, and booze, and then at 5.30 they have a Monty Python-esque "reenactment" of the storming of the Bastille and they behead Marie Antoinette -- actually a watermelon. But it's all very silly and good fun, plus, hello, an excuse for me to dress up!
( Read more... )
There are a few more pics in the Photobucket album (you can take the ones you want from there, Katy, so they're not squished down to Facebook-size!)
Edit: Aha, link to the news clip where you can see us! Sort of. We're to the left of Marie Antoinette...okay, just look for the big hats. You can see me throwing an armful of cake to the masses, haha.
