Pennsylvania Vacation - Day 5

We began the day with a tour of PNC Park, the Pittsburgh Pirates ball park - beautiful stadium, great tour guide, tons of team history throughout the stadium, makes you sad the team hasn't been so good for awhile!(yes, the boys thought it was hilarious that they were standing between the statues legs.)

Every player touches this sign every day as they walk down the stairs to the dugout:

The view from the press box:

After that we ate at a yummy sandwich place next to the stadium and we were on the the Inclines, a small car that is pulled up the side of Mt. Washington as another car comes down. The boys loved watching out the windows as we rode up and it was a great view of downtown Pittsburgh from the top. We also got to look at the giant pulleys and cables that make the system work!

Going up!

The view from the top:

Heading back down:

Then we stopped at Sarris' (where we met up with Teri's and Mike's Little Mike who in fact is not little but is taller than Daddy!) ice cream parlor and candy factory - WOW! The four of us split a Strawberry Fields: vanilla and strawberry ice cream with fresh strawberries and whipped cream, and a Chocoholic, chocolate, double chocolate, and chocolate chip ice cream drowned in hot fudge with whipped cream and cherries. They were INCREDIBLE!!!!

Then back to Teri and Mike's and a little football practice:

Then dinner, a fire, and off to bed!