I Survived Pittsburgh

We decided to give Phipps a try yesterday.

A few things.

1. After 10 years its hard to remember, the second turn off in Schneley Park is for Phipps. Note...read the banner signs they help. Yeah..that took a half hour to get back and find parking, as I said, with graduation and the gorgeous day it was makes for NO FREAKING PARKING

2. Phipps is getting way expensive and though Van Gogh In Bloom was beautiful, they were more creative in using their themes when I was a little girl. It's $17.95 there and it only takes about an hour or 2 of your time. If you drive to Philly and go to Longwood Gardens it's $23, but you'll need most of the day to appreciate the beauty.

3. I still think the Cathedral of Learning is one of the best buildings in Pittsburgh

4. How did I forget that the Panther Hollow Bridge is a "lock" bridge

5.  I totally want to eat at The Porch one day when I have some spare cash.

6. Chulily Glass is still amusing

An Interesting Dinner

My friend Jen and I went to Pittsburgh today, and that always involves eating. It has been awhile since either of us had been to a Hard Rock Cafe, so that's where we decided to eat.

The food was good, as it usually is. We both had burgers and a nice alcoholic bevy to take the edge off the freezing cold temperatures outside.

However, the next table, was obviously a hooker convention.

No joke...

13 women, very inappropriately dressed for the weather....most of them looking like they didn't regularly consume food.

It didn't do much for the self esteem that's for sure, however it made for many jokes about the Hookers at the Hard Rock!

Oye Vey!

A Flowery Day

I spent the better part of this afternoon at the Spring Flower Show at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh today. I'm seriously a flower show freak. I don't know why. I suppose it was from all those shows I was dragged to when I was small. There was a long gap where we never went, but now that I have a digital camera, I want to go again and again.

I haven't a green thumb. My only talents are writing and making mix cds...oh and annoying people. So I can't explain my enjoyment of these floral escapades.

So if you'd like to view some of my snapshots from today...including the pictures of the Oakland area of Pittsburgh, go here.

There's also a picture of a Mini Cooper in the album, cos I had to snap a shot so I could send it to Erin, as she has the biggest Mini fetish of anyone I know. The building in the pictures is the Cathedral of Learning...aka the big penis in the sky.

If you look at it for awhile, you'll understand why I (and others) call it that.

Enjoy!