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Taylor Mac and Photo Pop Philly

Cheryl was able to get us three tickets to Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at the Kimmel Center this Saturday. We did not plan to stay for the entire 12 hour duration of the show, but we wanted to go for as long as Zoe was in to it and then hang out in Center City. We started the night by going to Reading Terminal Market to get some food. Zoe picked out a simple sugar donut, while scoffing at our cream-filled confections.



She truly is the least gluttonous child we know. It is amazing that even her sweet tooth has its limits. After that, it was off to the theater to watch the show. As we made our way in, she was quick to point out to Cheryl that she could see someone's butt, which will happen when you're wearing chaps. She really enjoyed the costumes and signs, and even got to hold one as the show progressed in to the 1860s.



After a while we decided to head out. We made a quick stop by El Vez to pop in to the photobooth. I mean, we were already there, so why not, right? We also went past the Photo Pop Philly exhibit and decided to go in. We took a bunch of pictures while we were there. Here's some of them.



Of all of the rooms and displays, Zoe's favorite was the 99 Red Balloons room. It was difficult to get a good picture in there, but I think he love of the space is fairly clear.



And, just for good measure, here are some more pictures.



It was around this point in the night that someone was getting very grumpy about the fact that we couldn't stay at the fun photo place forever, so we decided to head back to the train station and call it a night. You can see all of the pictures from this pop up on Flickr. You may get to see more, soon, since we had to promise Zoe we would recreate the red balloon room back in our house.

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