So, as I am writing this, I am looking out the window of my hotel room at lovely Downtown Pittsburgh. Okay, at some office buildings. But still.
I will try to blog as much as I can from here. I feel that way you can experience the joy of being in Pittsburgh. (Although, you'd probably have to be as big a Steelers fan as I am to experience joy).
The wife and I got in last night and made it to our hotel. Jen is working here for a couple of days, most of the time, I am on my own. So we decided to go out to eat at someplace kind of fancy.
Jerome "The Bus" Bettis has a restaurant in the shadow of Heinz Field called, as you can see, Grille 36. It is almost directly across the river from the hotel, so we decided to walk. Unfortunately, there is a lot of construction in the city, and even though there is a bridge that leads almost directly to the restaurant, the pedestrian walkway was closed for repairs. So we had to walk about two blocks down to the next bridge. In the cold. With the wind. We look like we have been in the sun all day because of the wind burn we both got.
It took a while to get there and find the place. But we got to walk past PNC Park, where the Pirates play. It looked very cool.
The food at Grille 36 was good, but be warned--the portions are big. Huge. Grand.
I took pictures along the way. I would have shown them to you, but my laptop swallowed my memory card. It has a slot for SanDisk memory cards, but it was too deep for the one from my camera and now I can't get it out. Yes, I am incredibly stupid sometimes.
Today, Jen had a little work today, but we had a couple of hours to spend together. We decided to do what is has become a tradition when we go a new town--go to a comic shop. We went to a place called Eide's Entertainment. I had doubts about the store, because it also had "music and DVD's". Newbury Comics up in Boston has comics in their name but it is mainly a record store. I feared the same here.
I was wrong to fear. The building was three levels and had one whole level devoted to comics. I picked up a lot of books I needed.
That's all for tonight. I'll blog more tomorrow.
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