Back for 3 days!
I'm back from my trip(for 3 whole days anyway). It was a great time. My friend Jessica and I just took off and drove with no real destination in mind past the first night. We stopped in Chicago the first night, and of course went to Gino's East pizza in Rolling Meadow's, IL for lunch. We were going to try to make the King Tut exibit on Monday too but got there a little late, so we decided to just head out on the road and come back on Friday for the Tut exibit.
We drove through Indiana, and made an impromptu stop at Notre Dame University. I hadn't even known that Notre Dame was in Indiana(shows how much I know). It was an AMAZING campus, I was extremely jealous that I hadn't attended a college of this magnitude! It reminded me how growing up, this was what I thought all college campuses were like.. :)
We ended up just outside of Clevelend on Tuesday night. The next day we went to the Rock and Roll hall of fame, which I must say was fairly disappointing. It was way too comercialized, expensive for what you got($20 each) and they didn't allow any pictures. The only thing I really enjoyed were some of the letters or personal effects they had on display from some of the musicians. Unfortunately there were far less of those sorts of things, and quite a few articles of clothing or other items worn or owned by the musicians. The movies they showed were also fairly lame. I'm glad I can say I've been there, but I don't think I'd return.
We headed out to Pittsburgh that night. Got there about 11pm and stayed there the next couple days. Had a good time out there. We went to this sandwich shop called Primanti Brothers that I'd seen on the Food network. They're famous for their style of sandwich, which is similar to a philly cheesesteak sandwich, with french fries and coleslaw on it! Was definitely interesting, and pretty good too. After that we walked around the "Strip District" of Pittsburgh where the original Primanti Brothers is located. I thought it was a pretty cool little area. Kind of an old industrial area turned wholesale shops/entertainment district. There were a few restraunts, some bars and clubs, and a bunch of shops and that sort of thing.
After hanging out around there we went on a boat ride on the "Three Rivers" of pittsburgh, where where the Allegheny River and the Mongahela River come together to form the Ohio River. That was definitely very fun, they talked about all the buildings and architecture, and some history on the city. There were a lot of unique things about the city for sure.(an example is the railroad bridge that at one time allowed for up to 4 trains at once to cross, 2 on the top, 2 on the bottom.) After the boat ride we decided to go see a movie at the Lowe's theater. Wow! What an amazing theater that was. They have an upstairs area that has a bar and restraunt, and you are even allowed to bring a beer into the movie. Inside the movie room itself they had all leather chairs upstairs. Definitely worth the price of a ticket(which was no more than any other movie theater) . We liked it so much we saw 2 movies, Nacho Libre and The Breakup.
The next day(Thursday), we started heading back. We bought tickets to see the King Tut exibit at the Field Museum in Chicago for Friday, which was absolutly awesome.
It was amazing actually seeing these ancient artifacts right up close(behind protective glass of course!) They were in amazing shape really for being THOUSANDS of years old. Well worth the price of admission! After the museum we headed back for home, and got home about 4:00am.
So, I'm home for 3 days, and taking yet another vacation. This time up to Canada with my friend Marty to meet some friends we met in the game World of Warcraft(yeah yeah, its nerdy, but honestly, I'll take any excuse for a vacation! :)
We drove through Indiana, and made an impromptu stop at Notre Dame University. I hadn't even known that Notre Dame was in Indiana(shows how much I know). It was an AMAZING campus, I was extremely jealous that I hadn't attended a college of this magnitude! It reminded me how growing up, this was what I thought all college campuses were like.. :)
We ended up just outside of Clevelend on Tuesday night. The next day we went to the Rock and Roll hall of fame, which I must say was fairly disappointing. It was way too comercialized, expensive for what you got($20 each) and they didn't allow any pictures. The only thing I really enjoyed were some of the letters or personal effects they had on display from some of the musicians. Unfortunately there were far less of those sorts of things, and quite a few articles of clothing or other items worn or owned by the musicians. The movies they showed were also fairly lame. I'm glad I can say I've been there, but I don't think I'd return.
We headed out to Pittsburgh that night. Got there about 11pm and stayed there the next couple days. Had a good time out there. We went to this sandwich shop called Primanti Brothers that I'd seen on the Food network. They're famous for their style of sandwich, which is similar to a philly cheesesteak sandwich, with french fries and coleslaw on it! Was definitely interesting, and pretty good too. After that we walked around the "Strip District" of Pittsburgh where the original Primanti Brothers is located. I thought it was a pretty cool little area. Kind of an old industrial area turned wholesale shops/entertainment district. There were a few restraunts, some bars and clubs, and a bunch of shops and that sort of thing.
After hanging out around there we went on a boat ride on the "Three Rivers" of pittsburgh, where where the Allegheny River and the Mongahela River come together to form the Ohio River. That was definitely very fun, they talked about all the buildings and architecture, and some history on the city. There were a lot of unique things about the city for sure.(an example is the railroad bridge that at one time allowed for up to 4 trains at once to cross, 2 on the top, 2 on the bottom.) After the boat ride we decided to go see a movie at the Lowe's theater. Wow! What an amazing theater that was. They have an upstairs area that has a bar and restraunt, and you are even allowed to bring a beer into the movie. Inside the movie room itself they had all leather chairs upstairs. Definitely worth the price of a ticket(which was no more than any other movie theater) . We liked it so much we saw 2 movies, Nacho Libre and The Breakup.
The next day(Thursday), we started heading back. We bought tickets to see the King Tut exibit at the Field Museum in Chicago for Friday, which was absolutly awesome.
It was amazing actually seeing these ancient artifacts right up close(behind protective glass of course!) They were in amazing shape really for being THOUSANDS of years old. Well worth the price of admission! After the museum we headed back for home, and got home about 4:00am.
So, I'm home for 3 days, and taking yet another vacation. This time up to Canada with my friend Marty to meet some friends we met in the game World of Warcraft(yeah yeah, its nerdy, but honestly, I'll take any excuse for a vacation! :)
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