Friday In Sizzling Philadelphia

Images from Dad's walk around Downtown Philadelphia Friday:

This fountain was a popular spot. A wedding party even stopped by later in the evening to take a few pictures by this sign.
The Toyota-United team rides Fujis. But they look better than this one!
I thought the "Please Touch Museum" looked funny.
These little outdoor stands are everywhere and sell everything. The vendors even have their own (secured) WiFi network.
This guy was sleeping on an air duct to stay cool in the park.
These guys used a duct to imitate Marilyn Monroe's famous pose.
So we reached a record high today in Philadelphia - 95 degrees. The "feel like" temperature (or heat index) was 110. It was more of a "dry heat" though, because I wasn't dripping in sweat after walking a couple miles around town. I ran a few errands (to Fed-Ex Kinko's and to Staples) and made the following observations:

> There is a lot going on in the City Center section of Philadelphia: Preachers, people selling all kinds of stuff, beggars, TV crews shooting video of I-don't-know-what, lots of traffic, sirens and not as much horn honking as in New York or Chicago.

> Have you ever been in a Staples store with an upstairs to it? This one was in a converted high-rise so there were two levels. Interesting.

> Coming soon to a street near you - a truck with sidepanels that switch advertisers. You may have seen the ones that are moving billboards being pulled around Omaha. Well, these are actual trucks that are delivering things and they have advertising on the sides that switches. Very impressive (and likely expensive to manufacture).

You won't see it here, but there is a building that flashes all kinds of neon-like colors over about 25 of its floors. Very cool. But my camera phone couldn't quite capture it.