Hmmmmmm.....you got a good impression from Philly? Interesting because it isn't known to be the best of towns. Don't get me wrong it just like your typical city and does have some neat old buildings/houses and of course the "Liberty Bell" but some parts of Philly are just downright bad! Like near Temple University. Not a good area. Guns and violence. My 12 year old son has some infactuation with Temple and claims he wants to go there for college and I just cringe when he says that. I say, how bout a nice Catholic College in Allentown just close to our house I have 6 or 7 years to change his mind
I have a friend who lived in Indiana but did end up moving back to PA where her family is. My neighbor is also from Indiana. I wanna say South Bend? Is that a place there? It's funny how you use other words for things. Like "pop" for what we call soda here and you call sneakers "tennis shoes". I think she refers to bags as "sacks". We laugh and tell her that only santa has a sack. Each state though has their own form of slang words. It's interesting to hear them though. It's funny though because she says that PA reminds her a lot of Indiana as far as where she came from. She said it's not too much different. I think you get much more snow than we get which is fine by me! I HATE snow and winter with a passion!
I'll have to check into the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon. I didn't know it was even there!