{"id":190278,"date":"2025-08-31T23:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190278\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T23:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:45:17","slug":"families-pack-in-a-little-more-summer-fun-at-penns-landing-in-philadelphia-before-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/190278\/","title":{"rendered":"Families pack in a little more summer fun at Penn&#8217;s Landing in Philadelphia before Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lap around the roller rink, a ride on the Ferris wheel or merry-go-round, or even a game of mini golf was the perfect way to spend part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/labor-day-2025-whats-open-and-closed\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labor Day weekend<\/a> for the last day of Summerfest at Penn&#8217;s Landing in Philadelphia. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We figured this is a good place to do lots of summery things. They&#8217;ve got carnival games, fried foods and just fun stuff,&#8221; said Rachel Saks from Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/weather-philadelphia-august-31-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunny skies<\/a> were an ideal send-off before school starts for kids like Claire, who begins kindergarten on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ted McLaughlin from Queen Village brought his family, including 5-year-old Patrick, who jumped at the chance to pack in just a little more fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s had quite a great summer, lots of beach, vacations, swimming,&#8221; McLaughlin said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a great summer with him.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was a chance to soak up the last rays of summer, and many said they&#8217;re not ready for it to end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not one of those apple cider people or pumpkin spice people or sweater people. I want it summer all year round,&#8221; James Goodwin, of Francisville, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While she&#8217;s not looking forward to the cold weather, Katie Boula said sending the kids back to class isn&#8217;t all bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just started working, so this was my first summer where they were all home, and it was a stressful summer for me if I&#8217;m being honest, so I&#8217;m really excited for all the kids to get back to school,&#8221; Boula said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The end of summer also means one thing is back: Eagles football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s something we can all cheer about.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/search\/author\/alicia-roberts\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alicia  Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Emmy-award winning Reporter and Anchor Alicia Roberts joined the CBS News Philadelphia team in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lap around the roller rink, a ride on the Ferris wheel or merry-go-round, or even a game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":190279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,22073,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-190278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-penns-landing","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115126044716091154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}