LSU - WV Friday

We have finally recovered from our trip.  Here is a quick recap and a few photos.  Friday morning we departed Baton Rouge on an Air Tram charter flight to Pittsburgh Pa.  It was a rough start as I had a slight panic attack once we were all on board.  The rows of seat on this plane were very close to each other and it was hot inside the plane.  This plane had three seat on each side, I had the window seat.  All of a sudden I had this panic attack and had to get everyone out of the row and stand up.  The door was still open and my thought was to get the heck out of the plane.  Once I stood up and calmed down I tried again.  This time in the center seat.  I was able to keep the panic feelings under control and made it to Pittsburgh without incident.  As is custom with these flights we unloaded from the plane and boarded directly onto a bus.  They unloaded the luggage into a Ryder type box truck and off we went.  We arrived in downtown Pittsburgh at the William Penn Omni Hotel.  WOW what a nice place and with top of the line service !!  Rooms were not ready so we had lunch and walked around downtown for a bit.  The Conciser arranged for a one hour sight seeing river tour and dinner at the Grand Concourse.  It was a bit cloudy with little sprinkles of rain.

Waiting for out sightseeing river tour

They had eight nice paddlewheel boats at this dock.
One was being used to ferry passengers to the Baseball game .
Pirates vs the Reds (We think)

Down town Pittsburg

Our scheduled departure was 7:30.
Landry had a 5 hour drive from Ann Arbor
He arrived at 7 PM

Good looking LSU Fans

Touring Pittsburg 

The Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers join to form
the Ohio River - Three Rivers

Heniz Stadium was built near the site of the old
Three Rivers Stadium.

Down town Pittsburg from the Ohio River

Lights from PNC Park

PNC Park

PNC Park

PNC Park

PNC Park

Those blue lights are from the Incline cable car.  There are two along the shore of the Ohio River.  They were built to haul coal either from or to the river.  Now they haul people up and down the Mountain.  Last Friday they hauled LSU fans up for a view of Downtown.

Three Rivers and Pittsburg

Pittsburg