The wild things were in the form of myself and visiting Cali-Boi, who is a longtime reader of the Mistress, and we met for the first time this summer in Provincetown. He has been planning a trip for two years now to come to Philly and finally did. He spent most of the week in town, as the Mistress had work duties, but we did have dinner Wednesday night at the fabulous Palomar Hotel, followed by Mimi Imfurst's Dollhouse Revue at the Voyeur Nightclub. I took Friday off to play tour guide in Philadelphia, and the weather was just beautiful, sunny and much warmer. After a city tour and stop at Giovanni's Room , he really wanted to see the Philadelphia Zoo, so it was off to see the wild things, excluding Cali Boi, who is quite the charmer. Upon entering I saw a peacock that came at me. It couldn't be Penelope, from the Bronx Zoo on my visit with good friend and sister Mame could it? As old as the zoo is, it is kept very beautiful, and we were lucky, as some of the animals are getting ready to be transferred to other locations for the winter.
It's like they were posing.....
We were going to go into the Memorial Hall, which is now the Please Touch Museum, but I worried someone might get confused.
The beautiful statues in front of the Museum....
After the zoo it was time for a late lunch and some afternoon happy hour, so we headed to the Continental, a Steven Starr establishment for lunch. But it isn't your typical diner.....its swanky.....with cock-a-tails.......
After a late lunch it was back to the Casa du Borhgese so I could show Cali-Boi, upon his request, my fair hamlet of New Hope. We had many cock-a-tails at the Raven after walking the streets of New Hope and Lambertville. Then more cock-a-tails at the Casa before passing out, err, I mean, going to sleep. The next day was a wonderful brunch at the ever fabulous Marsha Browns, before Cali-Boi headed back in town in the townecar to catch his flight back to West Hollywood. It was a very nice weekend and much needed from the follow up of Sandy and a huge work load now done. I will say though, the Weho boys sure do know how to have fun. There like Energizer batteries, they keep going, and going ,and going.........
