A long, fun weekend in Pittsburgh

We just got back from Pittsburgh last night. It was a fun trip. We had a cookout on Sunday with the family at Rebecca & Paul's awesome new house. Emma is getting so tall! I decided that whenever we visit Pittsburgh I must take a trip over to "Groovy". I think this store was made for me. For those of you not familiar with "Groovy", they have toys and collectables from the 70's & 80's--basically everything we grew up with!! Then, after checking out all the shops in Southside on Saturday afternoon (I got some really cool beads too so I can make some new jewelry!), we ate at Fatheads with Eric & Deana. I got the Sweet MB, which is layers of Polish sausage, then Italian salami, then sauerkraut, then tomato--you get the point. Now, on Monday morning, I actually ate the other HUGE half of this for BREAKFAST. No lie. I was good to go for Hagerstown Outlet shopping for HOURS & HOURS. Now, we also saw two great horror movies from Eric & Deana's fine collection on our trip. "Ringu" had a better "coming-out-of-the-TV scene" than "The Ring", but I actually thought "The Ring" had a more interesting story and more lead-up time (lead-up time is normally more exciting to me than any climax). On Sunday night, we watched "The Eye", which was a great movie. Very freaky. Much better than most of the American horror films. And, one of the best parts of the weekend was when Deana actually GAVE me her tacky, hot pink, 1980's seashell hair clip to add to my collection!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was in heaven...(her friend loves cheap plastic shit too so she understands).