Seva's first subway ride

Yesterday (Sunday, August 24th) was Seva's first ride on a subway.  Seva loved it.  Jeannie and I picked up the Broad Street Line at Walnut-Locust station, then transferred at City Hall to the Market-Frankford Line, which we took to the Spring Garden station.  Especially during the longer ride on the MFL, with Seva sitting on my lap in a window seat, she looked intently out of the window at the lights periodically spaced out between the stations and then she looked curiously at the station whenever we were stopped.  For only being four and a half months old, she certainly seemed to enjoy it.

Once we got off at the Spring Garden station we walked down to Delaware Avenue and then over to Morgan's Pier, for an "event" or better yet evening of Polido Social Club.  The Morgan's Pier website calls it:

The Polido Social Club is a weekly hang out of sunset riverside explorations curated by a revolving cast of tropical taste makers. Polido is a term Portuguese folks use for polite, polished, sleek, and smooth ~ which is exactly the type of evening vibe the social club wants you to feel.

It was a very nice evening.  We sat on high chairs facing the marina on the Delaware River.  The sun was out for most of the time.  And there was a cool breeze coming off the river.  There was a speaker on the floor just below our chairs, so we could hear the music playing.  There was a pretty good crowed, but it wasn't crowded.  I drank a lemonade, Jeannie drank a cranberry juice mixed with lemonade, and we shared french fries with garlic aioli sauce.  Seva did a great job hanging out.  And we had a really good time as a family, along the Delaware River, just north of the Ben Franklin Bridge.

Tonight we had a big dinner.  We hosted my mom, Jeannie's dad, and our friends Katy and Andrew (and their 6 month-old daughter Grace).  I cooked chicken seasoned with Adobo, black beans with Goya Recaito sauce, and white rice in boiled chicken bouillon cubes.  I received good reviews all around.  Jeannie made some homemade lime fizz by squeezing lime juice into sparkling water and a teaspoon of turbinado sugar.  For an unplanned, impromptu get-together, I think we did a great job.