Let it be known that we totally owned Memorial Day Weekend. While half of DC stayed in, and the other half went to Duck, Trish (ever the champ) met us in Pittsburgh where we played Tourist to the best of our abilities. We had cameras dangling from our wrists at all times and took about a million photos. (And yes, I finally figured out how to make collages in GIMP, thanks to this very thorough tutorial.) We visited Falling Waters, Frank Lloyd Wright's amazing piece of architecture built atop some lovely falls.
Our constant camera clicking included many obligatory action shots, as well as the waning-in-popularity back2back poses favored by tween girls in the late 80s and early 90s. We are actively working on bringing this pose back, though we frown upon Charlie's Angels arms, preferring instead the original It-gals Blossom and Six's jaunty folded arms. If you're having trouble picturing this, worry no more:
I wish we had that sweet backdrop (remember grade school photo day?)! Anyway, we took a few pointers from them--minus the awesome hats--at the Big Mac Museum (famous mostly for housing the largest model of a Big Mac and an assortment of old Happy Meal toy collections) below:
It cropped up again at Pitt's Cathedral of Learning (where Trish would study 24 hours a day, if she had been able to study there in college)...
We swapped out the back2back pose with the much more fitting high fives and action shots on our way to the Pirate's game (we took the ferry to the stadium!).
And no trip to the Pitt is complete without a ride up the Duquesne Incline and lovely views from the top.
A lot of Warren's family lives in Pittsburgh so we were excited to see them, and we were especially excited to meet his cousin's precious new baby, Charlotte (even though she looks kind of terrified). Ava, on the other hand, rallied in true ginger spirit, and used Warren mostly as a jungle gym. We polished the trip off by eating a Klondike bar on Grandma's porch swing (did you know Klondikes were invented in Pittsburgh? Neither did I). And that my friends, is how you totally knock Memorial Day Weekend out of the park! Though Memorial Day is old hat now, I hope yours was lovely!
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