Weekends

Weekends have really become a lifeline of getting through the week at work, except for the weekends I give to drill. But in the last handful of months i haven't been to concerned about giving them up. Well back to the point, this weekend was a great time, good food, a visit from an old friend, and doing something I have never done before. On saturday morning, I was able to read part of a book, eat a wonderful breakfast and relax. Around 1pm Justin and I decided to go out for lunch, we got in the car planing to head over to Shadeyside, well as soon as we get on liberty st. there is a band playing! We park and decide to go to the pleasure bar and sit outside. We hangout, have a nice lunch and enjoy the band playing called the armodillos, a pittsburgh band. They are a four piece band consisting of a guitar player, a mandolin player, an accordian player, and an upright bass player. We enjoyed them so much we bought the cd!

About 20 minutes after the band quit playing, my friend Brant and his girlfriend Ann, showed up to visit, this was planned! Justin and I showed the both of them two interesting places in the Alleghany cemetery, the winter crypt, and the Jaws shark grave stone, for Lester C. Madden.

. Then we stopped a cool store in Lawrenceville called Wild Card, and looked around! I found an awesome print of the state of PA, this store is so dangerous because I always spend 30-50 bucks on cool things, that I probably do not need. They had an amazing Pittsburgh T-shirt, it was a type writer, that said "Dear Pittsburgh, I love you." They didn't have a small or medium so I could pick one up.

Next stop was the Strip district-we stopped a book store, where I found the second and third book to the Hunger Games, score!

Then we found a distillery, called Wigle, that just opened. We were able to try their Rye and Wheat types of whiskey. Both Whiskeys are not aged in wood, so they are a bit smoother. The place was beautiful, and I walked away with a bottle of whiskey and a cool sign, that will have to eventually get framed.

Wigle let us look at the still equipment to-it was beautiful:

Then onto Primanti Brothers:

The we took a ride on the Incline to MT Washington and saw the view from every overlook:

Then we ended the day with the Duquesne Incline: