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I put a few of the pictures that I took (that I had time to edit) on Facebook, but anyone can check them out here

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2085604&l=e17a1&id=48602799

So the trip is over and we are all back home.

The last few days were good, when we got to Pittsburgh we chilled in the hotel room that night trying to figure out what the hell we were going to do for an entire day in Pittsburgh before the Pirates game... We ended up going to get some food at the original pancake house, then Pat wanted to check out this Mt. Washington or something. It was basically just a cable car thing that pulled you up the side of a mountain while checking out the live Turkey's running around the hillside. Once we got to the top, we looked around a bit and took some pictures, then went back down, it killed all of an hour at the very very most. The only other thing we could think of to do was to head to the movie theater... again. So we ended up seeing "What Happens in Vegas", it was alright, but either way it helped kill some time before the Pirates/Brewers game.

The game was pretty good, the stadium is pretty cool, but obviously the Pirates are not that popular of a team. Grand total for paid attendance was just over 7,000 people. I'd say the stadium could hold about 42,000, it was empty.

After the game we drove straight to Cleveland and got some sleep. The next day (yesterday) we went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the day. They wouldn't get us bring our cameras in so there are no pictures, besides the 2 or 3 that Pat snuck. It was interesting although I enjoyed the Baseball Hall of Fame more. And that was it, after that we jumped in the car and started making our way back to Chicago. We got into town around 9PM last night.

Overall a great trip, personally I wouldn't change anything about what we did... Well maybe wouldn't have booked the NY hotel room so early, but we really had no choice, nor did we know that the game in Boston would get rained out, causing us to stay in Boston another day and have to drive straight through to New York. But all in all it was a great trip.

We stopped in Philly yesterday just to get some Philly cheese steaks at Pat's Steaks. They were decent, I don't know if they were the best I've ever had, but at least I can say I've had a cheese steak in Philly. That was pretty much it in Philadelphia, we headed straight to Washington DC. When we got there it was about 6PM and the Nationals were playing the Philly's at 7. We walked up to the ticket window and bought $60 tickets.

It turns out those seats were pretty good. We were 3 rows from the field, just past third base. The Nationals stadium was very cool, probably has the coolest scoreboard I've ever seen. But I guess that's what you get when the stadium is brand new. So the game was good, Nationals won, then it was time to look for a hotel.

We couldn't find anything in the city that was either not sold out or not less than $300 a night, so we ended up finding a Budget Inn, which was in ghetto. I seriously thought the car was going to get broken into while we were asleep, but everything turned out fine. We toured all of DC today, saw all the monuments, the white house, our car on the grass... Yeah, apparently we parked in a bad spot on the street and didnt see the sign that said we had to move it at 4PM, we got a parking ticket and to get our car off the busy road, they towed it up onto the grass... it was kind of odd, but whatever at least they didn't tow it away.

So that was that, no we are in Pittsburgh, going to see the Pirates play tomorrow night, then drive to Cleveland to sleep, then wake up, check out the rock and roll hall of fame and then head home. So we will be home Thursday night at some point.

So we are done with the games we had planned and are starting the
drive back towards home. Currently we are on our way to Philadelphia
to check out a few things for a bit then on to Washington dc. I think
were going to try to catch the nationals game tonight and tour dc
tomorrow.

Yesterday it poured in the morning in new York but we still walked
through central park and got pizza. The rain stopped and it turned out
to be really nice for the game last night which is good because
apparently abby melts if it rains. The game was cool, wish it would
have been a little closer instead of the mets absolutely destroying
the Yankees, but its always nice to see the Yankees lose.

At the very end of the game we witnessed the most insane thing we've
ever seen at a baseball game. Picture the nosebleed seats and how
steep they are, now imagine a guy trying to step over seats to get
down faster instead of using the stairs... And then picture him
slipping, trying to grab onto a girl to stop himself from falling but
instead they both go tumbling head over heals through the seats until
they hit the railing at the bottom!! There was still a section in
front of them so they wouldn't have fallen over to the lower level,
but had they gone into the next section it could have hapened. The
girl was ok, she stopped before the railing and walked away, the guy
was messed up. He was laying on the ground with ems all around him. It
was absolutely insane. He fell from the same row we were sitting in,
which was about 6 rows from the top and 12 or so rows to where he
stopped.

So after the game we just went back and went to sleep and are now
almost in Philly.

We had to stay in Boston another day, as the red sox game got rained
out on Friday and it was rescheduled for last night. So we didn't have
anything to do in Boston so we went to the movie theater paid to see
forgetting Sarah Marshall then walked into ironman, so 2 movies for
the price of 1, not bad. Once the movies were over it was closer to
gametime and we met jon and done at a bar near Fenway. We chilled for
few hours and then went to the game. It was a pretty close game.

We made it out of the game around midnight and drove jon back to his
car so we got on the road to new York around 1 am, and got in to
manhattan at 5 and went to sleep. Its about 130 here now and were
getting ready to head out for the day, not sure exactly what were
going to do though. The mets Yankees game isn't until 805 so well see
what we can find. Of course its supposed to rain here so hopefully
that doesn't happen.

Oh and for the amount of money you spend on a hotel room in times
square, they could at least put a door knob on the inside of the
bathroom, just a suggestion.