Take Me Out To The Ballgame

Hi Yinz all!! 

Happy Monday!!! 

I am going to update you on the weekend backwards - just for fun! HA! 

I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and my siblings all grew up here until college and then one by one they all moved away (including my parents) and left me. I am still here representing in "The Burgh"!! They all still love the city and love to visit so we gather here whenever possible!

Since everyone was in town for the REO Concert on Saturday night (post to come later in the week) we decided to go to a Pirates game on Sunday! It was my brothers idea and I was not all in but I love spending time with my family! HA! I am not really a baseball fan - it is hard for me to follow. My favorites are Hockey and Football but I wont ever pass up family time. I told my nieces I was there for a hotdog, peanuts and them! HA HA!

As soon as we got downtown and parked, my niece and myself needed a restroom - LOL! We took the potty people and ducked into the Renaissance Hotel across from the parking garage. On the way out we decided to get a cute selfie while we waited for the walk signal to change so we could cross the street and catch up with the rest of our peeps. So cute...

 They saw us getting a selfie and decided to get one of their group..not nearly as cute - LOL!!! These are the strong bladder people in our family! HA!

 

As we walked to PNC Park (The Home of the Pittsburgh Pirates) we encountered the Cookie Cruiser!!! My oldest sister is obsessed with Eat n Park restaurant!   She loves their salad bar and cookies and the do not have Eat n Park restaurants in her town in PA. Every time she comes to town we have to eat here. HA! So here is the obligatory pose with the Cookie Cruiser!!!

And just the boys!! They were giving out free smiley cookies from the cruiser!!!  See how cute -the boys and the cookies are - they make them look a pirate for the Pirates games! Super cute!

Close up of the Eat n Park fan! Eat n Park: hear me now: Do yourselves a favor and open a franchise location in Harrisburg...my sister alone will keep it in business! HA HA HA

We decided to each lunch on the way to the game so we stopped at McFadden's - we go here a lot on Steelers game days! On days when the Steelers play, it is  packed with fans in their black and gold...not so much on Pirates game days but the food is great!  Picture of the whole crew waiting on food!!!

Finally we made it to the game!!! This is my niece and myself in the stands...

 And some of the crew during the game!!!

 

Toward the end of the game...my niece and myself moved up to the very top row of the stadium. It was so breezy and cool up there and EMPTY!! We had a little foot rest too! So we spent the rest of the game up there! LOL!!! So comfy away from the crowds~~

It was such a great weekend!! Cram packed with family and fun! I love these people to pieces and cherish all the time we spend together! We have little spats and annoyances with each other but we get over it and move on - we are truly family and I could not have picked a better group of people to have in my life FOREVER and ALWAYS!! PS - We lost the game 1 to 0 in favor of the NY Mets.

I hope you all had an amazing weekend filled with you forever people!! I am looking forward to going to bed early tonight! LOL! Thanks all for stopping by and for caring enough to read my babbling!

Do you schedule extended family time? Are you close with siblings or nieces and nephews? Do you like baseball? What did you do this weekend?

Pittsburgh Rules!

I REALLY love my city! It is so pretty and there is so much to do here! i Love Pittsburgh!

 I had an early date night last night this week (We normally make date night on Wednesday) since my sweetie got tickets to the Pittsburgh Pirates Game (baseball). Here is my ticket...we had pretty awesome seats and it was a pretty awesome game (even though in the end we lost - great game though!!!) Any Milwaukee bloggers out there?? You guys won last night!!!!! CONGRATS

This is a view of my beautiful city from PNC Park. It is from my cell phone so it is pretty crappy picture quality. Just one of our many bridges!

Another view from PNC Park. The building with the big blue stick on top (HA HA) is the Highmark Building and the one to the right of that with the four light on top is the glass building of PPG. Beautiful buildings!!! Again, sorry for the crappy quality picture.

This is the pierogi race. They do this every home game. YUMMO. Chester Cheese won last night.

 This is a selfie of me and my sweetie! Love this guy lots!

Never ceases to make me smile!

And, yes, I have officially agreed that it is fall and have switched over to my favorite fall handbag! Makes me sad but with this lovely rainy and chilly weather; it is hard to deny it! Fall is here in Pittsburgh!

Hope you all have an awesome hump day! I get another date night tonight and we are going on a river cruise. I promise to take my real camera so I can actually get some nice and clear pictures of my beautiful city - HA HA!

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Useful Information

Nothing exciting to report so I will just spew a bunch of useful (and useless) knowledge I gained at lunch.

1.  Never be friends with your ex-husbands mother...it can only come back to harm you in the end.

2. The cork factory in Pittsburgh was turned into a Marina and loft housing.

3. Female mosquito are the only ones that bite you.  Never knew this! Here are the facts about it....I googled it after lunch.   http://topics.info.com/Do-all-mosquitoes-bite

4. Red Robin now has sweet potato fries...never knew this substitution existed however, their regular fries are the BOMB and I have no need to substitute! Red Robin....YUM!!!! http://www.redrobin.com/  PS - They have the sweetest and cutest waitresses ever (my niece is a waitress there when she is home from college - ha!)

5. It feels GREAT to cheat on your healthy eating every now and then. Just really WANTED a burger today-got a turkey burger so it was not a TOTAL cheat!!!!!! YUMMO

6. Friends at work are sooo important!! My friends at work anchor me throughout the day...make it so much more enjoyable to have to work for a living.....thanks guys! You know who you are~~~~~~~

That's it....YOU ARE WELCOME!  HA

Tonight is date night with my baby! He is taking me to a Pirates Game (pray for no rain) and I am sooo excited!!! I feel like I have not seen him in weeks...it really have been about a week....our schedules are not meshing at the present time.

Oh well, just makes tonight even better! I promise to post pics of our exciting evening at the ballpark! Go Pirates!!!!!!

Hope everyone has a great day!