Well, we are back safe and sound.

Our trip started on Friday afternoon around 2:30. With a short stop in Buffalo and then dinner in Erie following a walk in Grove City, we reached out skirts of Pittsburgh around 10:30pm.

Saturday we visited the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. This was an excellent place and kids had a blast, I would highly recommend it. Following the museum, we took a walk on Strip district and had dinner at a local eatery.

Sunday was a dedicated shopping day and we visited the Tanger outlet mall in Washington PA. We also were able to find a local baseball stadium to watch the fireworks from. The fireworks show itself was nothing to write about, but the proximity to the show was amazing. We could see the parking lot where the stuff was flying from, just amazing. We found a hotel in a small town Bentleyville, PA just outside Washington, PA.

Monday was Pittsburgh Zoo. Since we are member of Toronto Zoo, this was a free visit and a very nice one too. Pittsburgh zoo is in a very nice setting and quite different then Toronto zoo. Since it was very hot that day, we had to cut our visit short and had to find refuge indoors. Indoor would off course be a mall :) Monday night we found a hotel on the border of PA and OH in small town West Middlesex. At the recommendation of the hotel stuff, we tried a local bar and grill 'Hickroy Grill' which was excellent.

Tuesday was yet another shopping day and we spent few hours at the outlet mall in Grove City before heading home around 2:30. With a dinner stop outside buffalo, we made home around 9:30 to a sweltering 86 degree (inside temp) home.

Thank you for the help with planing of the trip.

Driving around the Pittsburgh area was really fun with all the hills and greenery. I can't image the winter driving there tough.