Pittsburgh Day 1

Good Morning,

'Brrrrrr', man is it cold here. But contrary to popular belief the people are incredibly nice. We got in about 4pm, I had heard from someone on the plane that the biggest storm of the century was coming on Mon or Tues. When we got the the rental car counter I insisted on a four wheel drive. (fear here). I haven't driven in snow in 21 years. Yikes!!! (My name is on the donation account so I have to be the driver). It was double the price. I didn't care. We get in the Nissan Xterra, and Aunt Judy has a navigation tool, that we can't get to work in Pittsburgh. So, luckily, Tammi has one on her phone. We got to the family house with little problem. (little doesn't mean none). Then we went to a parking garage, that didn't belong to the family house. We got stuck inside, Tammi had to get out and push the button on the in side so we could go out the wrong way. This may have been the first time we all almost wet our pants. Then we got to the house and heard all of the 'RULES' many, many rules. We finally get up to our room and we all decided that the house had a hospice feel. None of us like this. The emotion of it all came flooding in. We decided to go out to dinner. So, again we are navigating through the town to find a Italian place. We didn't go to far and found Alexanders. the food was pretty good, wait was really long. Service was excellent. We told them we were staying at the Family House and immediately they got even friendlier. Invited us back to watch the Superbowl. Some guy in the next booth, was willing to leave his date and talk to us about the night life. I think if Tammi would have wanted to go, he would have left his date there and taken us to the bar. Whew!! Then we came back to the dorm and went to bed. We want to see a little of Pittsburgh today, we are starting with Church. I have a facebook connection for church about 6 miles from here. We'll keep in touch.