Day 11 – Dahn Tahn Pittsburgh
This was our last full day at the
@Mad Dog resort and the plan was to head down and see dahn tahn Pittsburg, simple breakfast this morning allowed us a relatively early start as we wanted to get in and aht before rush hour traffic.
The drive in was pretty quick but we had at the top of the garage as it was pretty full, flip side of this was that it gave some stunning views of the Pittsburgh skyline. Once parked we made our way across the historic Smithfield Street bridge and headed into city. John was on top form again today and was soon pointing out the landmarks as well as the history of the area. The old prison was far too nice to have been housing inmates and seems more fitting in its current use as a court house.
As we wandered around some more we could feel the temperature dropping and see the skies getting dark, before long the wind was whipping up and it was time to find shelter. The rain came and it came heavy we also got some huge claps of thunder, the skies were angry today, after 10 straight days of hot sunshine this was the first bad weather of the trip so we couldn’t complain, after half an hour or so it was all over, the rain had stopped, the sky was blue again and the sun was soon warming us back up.
We walked through the theater district and saw the Heinz Hall, another of the city’s historic landmarks. Just up the road and across the Roberto Clement Bridge is the PNC Park stadium home of the Pittsburg Pirates baseball team. From here we made the short walk to another stadium, this one home of the famous Pittsburgh Steelers. The Heinz stadium sits on the river Ohio and we had to cross yet another bridge to get there, Pittsburgh has a lot of bridges to cross its 3 rivers.
We were viewing the stadium from across the river in the Point State Park alongside the view of the stadium is the massive water fountain which marks the point of the golden triangle, so called as 3 rivers meet here. The park has a lot of history, you can see the layout in the ground of where the old fort built by the British during the seven years war used to be, the Forts Blockhouse still stands though amazing as it dates back to 1764.
It was now getting close to lunch time so headed back into town to find somewhere to eat, we tried the food court in the big glass this was closed so we headed a little further down the road and low and behold we walked right by a Primanti Brothers, our very own
@Disneyhead at recommended we try their sandwiches whilst in Pittsburgh, so we were all through the door without even asking if this is where we should eat.
We sat at the counter and I ordered the steak and cheese. It was neat watching the young line cook preparing our sandwiches, First the meat, then the slaw followed by fries on top and not forgetting the all important squish to hold it all in place. I wasn’t sure where to start with as it was so big, I really enjoyed it and we all managed to finish. All the time we sat there eating and watching the cooking, this girl had orders coming out of her ear but she really had it down and never once looked like getting flustered. Bellies full we headed back to the car for the ride back to the
@Mad Dog resort.
We were having so much fun that this last day had really snuck up on us, we had laundry and packing to organize ready for leaving in the morning, but not before our last supper. John and Alene had been so good the least we could do was to cook up one last feast, we kept it simple with a platter of anti pasti, zucchini pasta and garlic bread. We cracked open the wine and we all enjoyed our final evening together.
Note to
@Mad Dog, please correct me if my facts are incorrect.