{"id":1053,"date":"2016-03-29T19:27:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/thegirls\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2016-03-29T19:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:31:32","slug":"adventures-in-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/thegirls\/2016\/03\/29\/adventures-in-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in PA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, we have one adventure from Wisconsin that I didn’t post about. On March 11th, we took the girls to The Riverside Theater in Milwaukee to see The Piano Guys in concert. These guys are 4 dads from Utah who are amazingly talented musicians (a pianist, a singer\/composer, a cellist, and an all around tech and music guy). They achieved fame via YouTube posting videos where they blend classical tunes with pop and movie themes. You can watch their videos one their website, www.thepianoguys.com. The concert was a little over 2 hours, and we could have all stayed longer! It was a neat thing to do as a family, and it was a little strange to attend a concert where people were clutching books of sheet music!<\/p>\n

On to our Pitt adventure! The girls and I left on a Sunday morning and drove to PA. We arrived in time to have a Burgatory dinner, milkshakes (Kayla had Thin Mint and Ashley had S’mores with a giant toasted marshmallow floating in it), and a trip to Barnes & Noble, where we found Kevin’s birthday gift – Star Wars A New Hope as told by Shakespeare. We also arrived in time for SNOW!!!!! Enough to put 1\/4 inch of icy stuff on my car that night. On Monday, we spent some time just hanging with cousins. The girls also worked on some art for Shannon. They painted on the walls of her basement!<\/p>\n

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The boys had school and Shannon had work on Tuesday, so we did some swimming in our hotel pool. The hotel was not super classy or expensive, nothing special, but it did have a fairly nice pool! I snapped this picture one evening when we were swimming. It had a 9ft deep end!<\/p>\n

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We met up with Shannon and the boys at lunch, then went to the zoo! The weather warmed up to the 60’s, so it was a perfect day to be at the zoo. The girls and I walked to the zoo and Shannon took my car and the boys and drove over. Here are some pix from that adventure.<\/p>\n

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Having lunch one of the days.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, the boys and Shannon and Jon had to work all day. The girls and I spent the day at the science center and SportsWorks, then came back for dinner with the family.<\/p>\n

The girls tried a nifty Zero-g simulator.<\/p>\n

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