Pittsburgh!

Our flight to Pittsburgh was super quick, only 1.5 hours, but all the airport stuff and waiting took way more time than the flight itself, and a delay on the tarmac, but once landed we were off to fetch our rental car and driving into the city! The driving was blessedly tame, but finding a parking spot on these skinny streets which all look like one-ways was quite the challenge! They have an interesting parking permitting system here that requires you to register your car, license plates and dates of stay, but then all street parking is free. So we pulled off into a Rite Aid parking lot to take care of all that and to call my Mama and let her know we got in ok. We contacted the AirBnB buy to see if we could check in early (the normal check in time is 4pm!) and then walked around the neighborhood for a bit to wait and hear back. Thankfully we barely have any baggage and having the car we were able to just lock our stuff in the trunk.  Finally around 2pm we could check in and relax a bit. We had barely eaten anything and had been up since 3am so it was nice to just have the evening to grab some groceries and hang out in the a/c of our very cute and comfy digs!

We slept really well, although I got many times throughout the night, but still feel well-rested. We are in Pittsburg for two nights in a bit of a whirlwind stay to catch a baseball game and meet up for lunch with my friend Molly and her kids, who just moved here at the end of June. So we are heading out shortly to take the bus downtown and see some sites. We are planning to check out the Duquesne Incline, Point State Park, Carnegie Science Center and PNC Park. I’ll try to post photos later today!