When traveling around, I highly advise searching ahead for recommended 
places to eat (google for a type of food in that place). The two places 
we've gone to, Chubby's Hoagies in Philly, and Good Fortune in DC, have 
both been solidly good food (across an audience of at least 5). If we
don't plan ahead, we tend to get fast food. And I don't want to be in 
some big city and get McDonald's. 

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We didn't reserve tickets to 'Degas and the Dance', so we didn't get to 
see that exhibit, but the Chicago Institute of Design photography exhibit 
(which we originally were going there to see) was a blast. Art Sinsabaugh's
panoramas and Yasuhiro Ishimoto's child pics were intriguing. The only bad
thing about the show was that a bunch of the works felt fairly contrived, 
but they were some of the first to do this stuff, so I can't complain (I 
don't think I could have done what they did, given their times). 

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But other than that, it was a bleak, rain-soaked day interrupted only by 
peals of laughter and awe. Today was the first time I understood what 
people mean when they've written that a sword spoke to them. In the 
armor section of the <a href="http://www.philamuseum.org">PMoA</a>, there was
a great sword that I had an equally great impulse to pick up, heft, and then lay 
waste to a bunch of armor. I'm sure any Europeans watching were thinking, "And 
the fate of the world is in this society's hands? sigh."

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