Philadelphia weekend guide: Flag Day, balloons and pickles
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🇺🇲 Flagging this for you: Friday is Flag Day. The Betsy Ross House continues to celebrate this weekend with flag-raising ceremonies, flag-making workshops plus a courtyard concert and naturalization ceremony.
- Philadelphia's Stripes and Stars Festival includes plenty of free special events on Friday, including a parade on the lawn of the National Constitution Center and a patriotic skydiving demo at Independence Mall at 11:15am.
🎈The Chester County Balloon Fiesta is blowing up the spot. Look for dozens of colorful hot-air balloons, a beer and wine garden, plus live music. Friday-Sunday. Tickets: $22 adults; $10 older children; free for kids 6 and under.
- Need a last-minute Father's Day gift? Maybe dad's into high-flying excursions. Separate tickets required for balloon rides.
🎛️ Thousands of people are expected to turn out for this year's Philly Carnival, a celebration of Caribbean culture that includes a parade, music and dancing. The festivities kick off Saturday in Fairmount Park from 10am-6pm. Tickets: $20; free for kids 12 and under.
🚛 You have a license to eat all you can at this free food truck festival at Linvilla Orchards in Media. Dozens of trucks take over the 300-acre family farm, offering everything from pizza to bacon on a stick.
- There's a beer garden for adults to throw back cold ones while kids hitch a ride on a train, pony or hay ride. Saturday, 11am-5pm.
😎 Summer, summer, summertime in South Philly means another annual B[l]ok Party! Bok Bar has everything your heart desires: food, drinks, music, dance performances, a bounce house and kids' activities. Saturday, noon-4pm.
🥒 It's a big dill! Check out Phila-dill-phia, the world's largest pickle party, at Xfinity Live! Peter Piper is impressed by the variety with over 100 kinds of pickles to sample.
- Plus, live bands, a pickle-eating contest, a pickleball court and other pickle-phernalia. Tickets: $24.99-$109.99, depending on pickle package. Saturday, 12-7pm.
⚽ Bicycle kick-on over to Subaru Park for the team's "Unity Night." They take on No. 1 Inter Miami on Saturday, 7:30pm. Tickets: $44+