The Neuner Times: Pittsburgh in May!!

Pittsburgh in May was absolutely wonderful. Arrived Friday afternoon and experienced a Pittsburgh sandwich for lunch - Very good! - Went back to the airport and picked up Alison, who flew in from Boston. Jess took us all to a Beerindipity restaurant with 16 beers on tap and over 400 bottles in the beer library, called Bock Town Bar and Grill, it was a fun time.

Saturday we picked up our Marathon packets, shirts and bib numbers.

Then headed out to Falling Waters http://www.fallingwater.org/ A house that was built by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufman family in 1939 over a water fall - Yes the water is flowing through the house.

We asked lots of questions - The final cost to build was $155,000

Once back in town, Jessica took us to another interesting restaurant - The Church Brew Works -

This was a old church turned into a restaurant. Great food and atmosphere. You can see the stain glass windows are still intact and the seats are the original pews.

The next morning was race day. 16,000 signed up and we heard only 11,000 turned out for the actual race.

Alison and Leo checking out the course, scoping out an exit plan in case of severe thunderstorms....Alison is not worried....:0) Lots of people - Took us 10 minutes to get to the starting line after the horn went off. All these people were ahead of us and the actual starting line was under that bridge, way in the background....

Rained the whole walk - But the finish line was totally rearranged due to a bomb scare! Someone left their lunch at the finish line in a microwave and someone else thought it was suspicious and called the Pittsburgh Bomb Squad. Yes, this little activity totally messed up everything, but we made our way through the crowd and received our medal.

The next thing we remember is eating crepes and waffles at Pamela's, great breakfast place. Decorated in the 1950s.

Headed home after that.

I forgot to add our Girls Weekend pics to the March blog, so I'll add them here.

Aunt Debbie, Jane and Millie (Uncle Jim too) hosted a great weekend in Kansas City, a total of 14 in attendance. We took a tour of the Toy Museum and had lunch at The Nelson Atkins Museum in the Rozzelle Court Restaurant. Very Cool!