Rear Window

Ben and I have the week off (yay!), but our plans of an epic Philly staycation have been hampered by the fact that both of us are sick (boo!). We've spent the last four days cooped up at home, eating soup and feeling generally cruddy, but the one somewhat cool thing to come out of it is that we have front row seats to the demolition of the old building behind our building.

That building has been abandoned for as long as we have lived here, and they are knocking it down to build a 40-story luxury condo/hotel complex - we aren't thrilled about the rapid gentrification, but it has been interesting to watch the demolition process. The white thing is spraying everything with water to keep the dust down, while the yellow claw thing just smashes at the building and pulls it apart. I would have thought the process would be more sophisticated than that, and probably there's some science to the order in which they smash the various parts of the building, but from our vantage point it really does look basically like a toddler destroying a house they built out of blocks.