Saturday was AC Storage Locker Day!

[giza]

I spent the weekend out in Pittsburgh to do inventory of the Anthrocon storage locker. I had originally expected this to take most of Saturday afternoon, it ended up only taking about an hour and a half, thanks to our hard working volunteers: swift_fox, silaria, cadpigjr, firefoxbc, and sinha_lion.

This then left us with the rest of Saturday to spend as we like. We walked around downtown Pittsburgh and visited the art festival that was in town. Afterward, Swift Fox thought it would be a good idea if we uh, "stress tested" some fire equipment. Here's me trying not to get knocked off my feet:



Back at the station, Swift Fox shows us that Firefighters have a sense of humor:



Also, Taz was apparently a new hire in the department:


Later in the evening we went to one of the many observation points on the side of a hill in Pittsburgh and I was able to get some nice night-exposure pictures of downtown Pittsburgh:



On Sunday morning, we visited The Pittsburgh Strip for breakfast. The strip is within a reasonable walk of the Westin, and is not unlike Philadelphia's Italian Market. Since I had less than 4 cups of coffee, I wasn't awake enough to take pictures from there. :-P

I then hopped in my rental car (yay AVIS!) and drove back home.

From my stay there, I gotta say that Aspinwall was a really nice town. It reminded me of Emmaus, PA, a town which I visited frequently in my youth (and was also on the side of a mountain).

The rest of my Pittsburgh at night pictures can be found here and additional pictures of testing the fire equipment can be found here.

Comments

[doco.livejournal.com]

Judging from your pictures, bigbluefox was right after all - it is America's Duisburg. :P

[omnibahumut.livejournal.com]

wow, thats an awesome picture of pitt

[baconcoyote.livejournal.com]

Looks like an awesome time man. That last picture is just beautiful! I LOVE cityscapes!

Lookin' forward to sayin hi at AC!

[duncandahusky.livejournal.com]

Good gods - where did these fries come from? That's American excess at its finest!

I do hope to swing by The Strip on Wednesday evening, maybe. I've heard so many good things about Primanti Bros. I'm looking forward to trying the place out.

[gizmo-nine.livejournal.com]

Regarding the fire hose picture…
all I could think was that I should respond by saying “your doing it wrong! don’t you know your supposed to have a couple big, burley, sweaty fireman grabbing you from behind to help you with your hose?”
And then I thought “hmm.. Maybe that would sound too gay”

I’m glad you had fun ^_^

[swift-fox.livejournal.com]

I offered, but he said he wanted to handle his hose on his own for the first time. :)

*winks*

Swift Fox

[simbab.livejournal.com]

I was at that place when I was there with boomeroo back in January. I didn't go much for the sandwich--it had a crapload of...something I didn't like (cole slaw?--**continues downing his coffee**)--but those fries were awesome.

[silaria.livejournal.com]

The fries are from The Original Hotdog, or the "O" as it is lovingly called. The O is the greasy food joint of Pitt campus in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh.

That large pile of fries is meant to be shared with 3 - 5 people.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Talking smack about cole slaw is a hanging offense in this state.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Duisburg?

[doco.livejournal.com]

:}

[giza.livejournal.com]

Uh, no. :-P

[miami-pony.livejournal.com]

I've always said that Pittsburgh is a pretty city, as long as it's nighttime and you're not actually on the ground.