It's the PiTTs!!!

You know what you miss out on when you live in Hawaii your whole life? The rolling hills throughout the country, the wind on your hand driving down the freeway for hours at a time, and the road kill! Yup, we hit the road again, next stop Pittsburgh to visit Erik's lil sis, Alicia. He hasn't seen her in about 4.5 years now so needless to say this visit was long overdue. We only have a day to spend with her so we did what any other good tourist would do. We ate at a true local fave called Fuel and Fuddly, scrumdidliumptious!!! Then we had Alicia give us a short tour of her thumping grounds. Little did we know that we would see the tallest school in the world, we won't count the one that beats it by a beam or whatever they put on there. The view was magnificent from way up there. It reminded me of Harry Potter's school, Hogwart's. It was that kind of great, it was castle-ish. And I also experienced a first: the school had a 13th floor! I was a little weirded out by that but we didn't stop on it so all was well. We stood on the exact street where the riots took place when Pittsburgh won the Super Bowl, pretty sweet. Then we went back to the house for some drinks and good catching up. Not to mention midnight takeaway from the nearby chinese was a Godsend! I was afraid to go in the basement because the house reminded me of Kevin Bacon's house in Stir of Echoes. What's with the movie connections you ask, I don't know, it was probably the atmosphere. However, it was so great to see Alicia, I see her a lot more than Erik does and he was just in heaven getting to spend time with her and see how she lived her oh so exotic city life. I can't wait until she comes to visit us in Georgia, its definitely not going to be soon or long enough.


Sadly though we had to leave early the next morning to make good time while stopping back in D.C. for our camcorder that Erik left in the hotel. On our way we stopped off for some gas and a potty break, inside a convenience store we found a jewel. A tiny diner that served home cooked meals, so we had to indulge. Had we known it was going to take nearly two hours to leave there we may have thought twice. At least it was some good grub! We recovered the camera and made it back to Tiari's house in just enough time to chat a little and say our goodbye's since we are making our way to South Carolina to see Dustin, Stephanie, and the kiddos. I'm going to miss hanging out with my sisters but I know I'll get to see them again soon. Hopefully they can make it down to Georgia before T and David are stuck across the world again.