Friday would be the start of Wrestlemania weekend as we would wake up to snow in Scranton this morning. The temperature was a roasting 45 degrees outside.
After breakfast we checked out of our hotel and headed east for a 2.5 hour drive to Philadelphia.
It was a smooth ride down as the temps climbed once we were at a lower altitude. We stopped off half way to fill up on gas and so Jill could get a coffee. I then took over the driving, a nice straight road for an hour to get used to the car and general driving on the wrong side of the road.
It got a bit busier as we entered Philadelphia. We were headed to the Pennsylvania conference Center for WWE world, a pop up exhibition to ramp up the hype for Wrestlemania. Getting parked was tricky as there were fans everywhere and hardly any spaces available. We eventually parked up in Chinatown, just a short walk away. Once we were in the exhibition there didn’t seem a whole lot of exhibits but there was a nice display of old title belts, a display of old costumes and lots of places to get photo opportunities. There was even a popup tattoo shop!
One of the coolest interactive pieces was the opportunity for fans to create their own entrance where you could perform a walk out to one of your favourite superstars entrance music. Sam was up for this, there was quite a queue but we had time. Sam convinced me to do the entrance with him so we walked out to Roman Reigns entrance!
Next was the superstore to get some merchandise. The queue to get in to this was absolutely insane. Easily 200 people waiting in line. However, Jill managed to pull a few strings for us and we were allowed to skip the queue!
The store looked like chaos, hangers, clothes and people everywhere. Very disorganised. I managed to grab a T-shirt and a cap, Sam and Jill got a few things and we got out of there.
Then we stopped a Trader Joes supermarket to get some fruit and other supplies before heading back to the car to go and find our hotel.
Hotel was only about 20 mins away so not far, Jill went and checked in and was there for a long time. She came out fuming because they had given her and Sam an upstairs room and they had no elevator! This obviously was no good so we couldn’t have the room and they had no other availability. So then we were faced with having to find a hotel on Wrestlemania weekend that had vacancies! After looking on booking.com Jill found another place not far away and luckily they had 2 rooms free for the weekend, a little more expensive but we couldn’t be choosy.
The hotel was really nice. Once checked in we headed over the road to a nice restaurant for a meal and a well earned drink!
Now we’re ready for wrestlemania night 1 on Saturday!
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