Grandma Teri and Grandpa Jim came to visit this last week and I think it was the busiest and most fun week we have ever had! We also lucked out with the weather, so we got to do everything we planned. This will be like a log of everything we did, so it might be a little boring, but I want to record it for posterity;)
The first day I took Dad and Teri down to the Strip District where we have a top ten bakery in the country, the best Italian grocery store in the world, and many other shops with fun and interesting things. Worth mentioning are the macaroons at Enrico's and the incredible selection of spices at Penzey's. You have to go there to experience it all. In the evening we went to the Bodies Exhibition which was really cool. The "skin only" body grossed Teri out and we thought $22 was a little steep for admission, but it was a must-see.
The next day we went to the Zoo and miraculously most of the animals were up, awake, and walking around. The best was the giant Kodiak bear with only his gigantic mammoth sized head poking out of his pond getting a drink. His head was seriously huge and he sure was thirsty! The aquarium at the zoo is fabulous and Henry ran around the entire time screaming "fish, fish!" In the evening we went to Andy Warhol Museum. Wa-heird. I hope Henry didn't see all the homosexual neon signs. lol! If you didn't know, Andy Warhol grew up here so there's a pretty decent sized museum here in Pittsburgh. Henry's favorite piece was a room filled with silver rectangular helium balloons that were blown all around the room by a fan. That was probably my favorite one also. I think I'll do that for his next Birthday party:)
We were supposed to go to to Ohiopyle (state park), but it looked like inclement weather, so we decided to go shopping at REI and H&M instead at the South Side works where there's also a fun in ground water fountain that the kids can run through. We took all of Henry's clothes off and let him run in the water and he was attracting a pretty good crowd. We then went to Jimmy Tsang's for dinner and ate some really great Chinese food in honor of the Birthday girls (Teri and Me).
The day they went home we went to the Strip one last time to get some bread and macaroons and then spent a few hours at the Phipps Conservatory where Chihuly has a spectacular exhibit. We absolutely loved it. Wow! We ate yummy Panera sandwiches for lunch while Henry slept in the car and then drove to the airport. Our little adventure had to come to an end even though there was so much more I wanted to show them. I suppose we have quite a few years to show them all that Pittsburgh has to offer.
We had such a fun time hanging out with them. Henry was so excited to have them around and even a couple days after they left he kept looking for them in our guest room. Poor little guy:(
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