Phillies Parade

It was a pretty exciting season for the Phillies! We only made it to one game this season, and since the cheapest playoff tickets were around $1,000 each we watched the World Series from home! It was a lot of fun to watch though. Philadelphia is a serious sports town, and after 25 years without a national championship from one of their major sports clubs it was definitely their time to shine.

A lot of people believed the city was cursed for building a structure in the early 1980's taller than City Hall, atop which stands a statue of William Penn, the state's founder. This past year the city constructed a new tallest building, the Comcast Center, and on top of this nearly 1,000 foot tall structure, is a small replica of the William Penn statue. Curse or coincidence? You make the call.

I walked down to the parade during my lunch hour at work to see what was going on. It was unbelievably packed with people all downtown! We got to see the team go by as they traveled to Citizens Bank Park to accept the trophy. I'm not big on crowds but this was a fun event!


This is the view south on Broad Street, after the parade passed through the crowds flooded the streets. There were an estimated 2-3 million people who traveled in to witness the parade, which essentially doubled the size of the city. When I went in to work that morning there were Phillies fans traveling down town on my train, and they kept pouring in all day. It was Halloween, and I think a lot of people didn't make it home to trick or treat that night because it was so difficult to get home. My commute is normally about an hour door to door but that night it took me over four hours to get home! I wasn't happy about that but it was a lot of fun to witness the parade and be a part of a team that won the World Series, so it was probably worth the delay!