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03/23/2014 23:02 #58828

Whole Foods - Maybe Just Halffoods
Category: food

We went to the wholefoods in Pittsburgh on the way home. If you remember I loved wholefoods in Orlando and (e:yesthatcasey) and I ate there everyday on our trip. Coming back from that trip I wanted one here so bad. Then I went to the Pittsburgh one. Its was so totally different. The prepared foods section seemed like so lame compared to the Orlando. If we got a wholefoods but its was a half rate one like that I would be so sad.

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tinypliny - 04/04/14 03:31
Those oranges look pretty good. You are spoilt.
YesThatCasey - 03/24/14 12:12
Awww, it all looks so sad. I guess getting fresh, local, organic produce might be a tad easier in wetlands over blizzard counties. I plan on checking out a SoCal location while I'm there next week.

03/23/2014 22:57 #58827

The Pittsburgh Botanical Gardens
Category: pittsburgh

The trip was to visit (e:joe)'s sister for her 20th birthday today. After the walk around the city, we met up the with family for a trip to the botanical gardens. The botanical gardens are similar to ours but its just so much more refined plus they have a cafe. I wonder if ours would make more money with a cafe attached.

With our membership to the Buffalo Botanical Gardens we get reciprocal deals at ~300 botanical organizations in the US. So (e:joe) asked at the desk if we would get a discount and they were like "pfft - NO" as though we were asking something totally ridiculous.

Anyways the $15 entrance was totally worth it. The temperature, humidity and smells were amazing. I loved the banana scented flower bush in the Indian Forest exhibit. I would go back again in the summer. They have a new sustainable green section that has net 0 energy consumption.

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tinypliny - 04/04/14 03:33
(e:joe) you have the warmest eyes when you smile! :-)
tinypliny - 04/04/14 03:32
Love these pictures! So vibrant! :)

The one of (e:Joe) with "Smell me. I am fragrant!" <--- HILARIOUS. hahaha
metalpeter - 03/24/14 19:53
Again Nice Pictures

03/23/2014 22:49 #58826

Morning Walk Around Pittsburgh
Category: pittsburgh

We had so much fun touring around the city in the morning. I kind of wish I lived there now. We tried to go up in the Carnegie Castle but the desk clerk said they don't have any observation decks areas since 9/11.

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tinypliny - 04/04/14 03:34
Whoa I did the whole slowly-scrolling down thing once more. So trippy!! I guess I am now commenting on all your posts four times.
tinypliny - 03/27/14 13:14
Its so cool to scroll slowly down this post. It's a strangely awesome effect. All those tall building seem to raise themselves up out of the ground into sky, up up up.
metalpeter - 03/24/14 19:51
Again Great Photos .....

03/23/2014 22:40 #58825

Pittsburgh At Night - Dancing at Luckys
Category: pittsburgh
It was hard to get good photos at night but we had so much fun running around the city in the middle of the night. The architecture was hard to photograph at night but Pittsburgh looks awesome at night. Everyone awesome building we have, they have ten of the same at higher quality. It makes me think no one will really ever travel here for the architecture of downtown even if we restored every historical building that exists.

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After a late start, we traveled all over the city looking for a cool place to hang out. We ended up at Lucky's which was one of the best gay bars I have ever been to. If you are in Pittsburgh and like divey gay bars packed with tons of people, I say check it out. The vibe kind of reminded me of the old buddies in Buffalo and also kind of like the barn in Toronto.

The downstairs looks kind of like a diner with booths and a round bar. We sat and had a drink and I honestly thought that was the whole bar till I saw a sign on a door that said something about nude dancers upstairs. Needless to say, we went in the door and up the stairs of what looks like an old row house. There are still marble fireplaces upstairs and the stairwell looked pretty residential from another era.

The disco lighting, mirror walls and dark interior, mixed with marble fireplaces and totally nude male strippers really set the mood. It was kind of funny how the strippers, who were wearing nothing would just stand up and flop their junk back and and then bend forward to talk to people at the bar, only to pretty much shove their open butt crack in the bar tenders face.

At the very end of the night everyone sang, "Last Dance" by Donna Summers with linked arms dancing in a circle. It was probably the gayest moment of my life.





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tinypliny - 04/04/14 03:35
It does look like a very cool and historic city. Maybe I will get to go there on some conference someday.
metalpeter - 03/24/14 19:50
Just wanted to let you know if you didn't there was this show Queer As Folk (US Version) That was supposed to take place in Pittsburgh but they filmed it in Toronto.... I assume they tried to get the scene from Pittsburgh I know nothing about the bars but guessing those two seeming the same might be why it was used on the show ???

In any event Nice Pictures.....

03/23/2014 22:15 #58824

William Penn Omni - Statler
Category: hotels
It was awesome. So glad we stayed there. I wish we could have drank or eaten at the bar but we were so busy the whole time hiking around the city. I would totally go back there. Its a perfectly central location.

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tinypliny - 04/04/14 03:37
30 seconds! I meant 30 seconds.

30 minutes is reserved for status:comatose. not statu: pathetic. :)
tinypliny - 04/04/14 03:36
hahaha, It took me a whole 30 minutes to realize that the orange and ice bottle was not some modern art sculpture thing and something to drink from. pathetic.