Catching up, part 2

Before I continue my recapping, I must tell you that I went to the dentist this morning and she discovered a cavity on the back of one of my FRONT teeth. How gross is that? Can't you just envision some redneck with rotten and falling out teeth? Nice. After I got my braces off way back in junior high, my teeth started moving back into their crooked state so the orthodontist bonded my 4 front teeth with wires on the back of them. At some point, one of the wires popped off and junk got in behind the glue that was used to attach the wire and apparently began eating away at my tooth. So, I'm getting a filling next Friday. The hygienist said that numbing the area would probably be the worst part. Excellent. I about passed out the last time I had novocaine because the dentist left the needle in the roof of my mouth for so long.

Maggie slept until 9 each day that we were in Pittsburgh which was a lovely treat, let me tell you! We spent Saturday at ReRe's brother Fran's house. Fran's girlfriend Lucia was there and Maggie was quite taken with her (and her collection of high heels, flip flops and jewelry). So, David and I were bad parents and completely let Maggie play with ReRe, Fran and Lucia while we watched about 10 hours of movies. I forgot to add that before we left for Pittsburgh, I slept wrong on my neck or something and I was in agonizing pain for most of the weekend. Maggie heard me telling someone that I had a crick in my neck, which she took to mean that a cricket was in my throat. Hee. We had lots of time for visiting family and eating lots of YUMMY food. There are some awesome foods that are native to the Pittsburgh area, like fold over cookies. And pizzelles! Well, I just looked on the Giant Eagle website and they call fold over cookies cream cheese cookies. But whatever. Here's a picture of them. They're the ones at the bottom with the red and orange fillings.
Oh, yummers. Look at that picture. I might need to print it out and hang it on the wall in my classroom. I wish Giant Eagle delivered down here. All that is to say that we ate a lot of food. Then the thousand Aleve that I had taken that day quit working and I needed to leave very quickly so David, Maggie and I headed back to the hotel. Grandma Grace and ReRe stuck around Fran's for a little longer because they weren't ready to call it a night.

On Sunday, ReRe and Grandma Grace needed to recover from their wild evening so the 3 of us went over to the outlets in Washington, PA. We also went by the new casino that is there and if Maggie hadn't been with us, maybe we would have gone in! Oh yeah, it was also Father's Day and I was LAME and didn't get David anything other than a card. He had said that the Wii Fit was a present for both of us and not to feel bad but I know I was lame. We went to Red Robin for lunch and then we went to David's Aunt Annie's (David's dad's sister) house. She lives in her parents' house (David's grandparents) and it is SUPER cool. I love it.

This is the bridge you drive over to get into Elizabeth and it is named for David's grandfather! How cool is that? The pantry door in Aunt Annie's kitchen is where everybody gets measured so we let Maggie have her inaugural measurement on it. David and I got measured too.

David's dad's measurement is way up at the top of the door with an arrow pointing up because he is 6'8". We had dinner while we were there: wings, calzone, pizza and something else that I cannot remember. It was all VERY tasty. Like I said before, there are some yummy foods from Pittsburgh.

Maggie and Uncle Neil had on matching Penguins t shirts!

The bathroom at Aunt Annie's house is upstairs and of course, the Bathroom Inspector had to pay it a visit about 10 times. I swear that gets old. Does it improve, veteran moms? Do kids always want to check out the bathrooms? Aunt Annie has a little dog (A Bichon, maybe? I can't remember) named Maytag and Maggie was quite entranced with him. We sat around and talked for a long time and then we needed to head for the hotel so we could be ready to leave in the morning!

The next day, we were up bright and early and hit the road. I read The Help the entire way home which was OMG so good. Go and buy it or check it out from the library and then block out about a day because you will not want to put it down once you start reading it.

And thus endeth the recap of our very quick trip to Pittsburgh. Up next, I attempt crafts with Maggie (and kind of fail) and the BEACH!