Well, we enjoyed our trip to Pittsburgh. Unfortunately the Steelers didn't win. You always want to see your team win when you are there in person. We went to the Hall of Fame area before the game and took a few photos of Art's favorite things. One of him standing in front of the Superbowl trophy from 2005, one of His favorite player's locker, Jack Lambert. Also a photo of the last coach, Bill "The Jaw" Cower holding the trophy. And last, a picture of Art and I just before the game all "jerseyed up".
We had one "fun" time while we were there. The hotel we stayed in had a nice big room. We even had a fridge and microwave we didn't expect to have. The fridge came in very handy and everything was nice about the room. The elevator situation was however on life support. Literally! When we arrived there was only one of the two that were working. When we stepped into the only working elevator, I noticed that several of the floor buttons were taped over with red tape. The ground floor button was hanging from a spring. All this did not instill great confidence in this elevator working up to par. It made funny noises the door was slow to open a few times. The card posted in the elevator stated only 10 persons allowed. This wouldn't have been such an issue on an elevator that was in good working order. We were on the top, 7th, floor of the hotel. On our the ride down on Sunday morning we had 8 people on by the time we reached the 6th floor. Two people got on, and we said that's it. It stopped again on the 5th floor and a couple of people besides me wanted the one lady, who wanted to get in, to wait for the next elevator. She didn't seem to want to wait and got in. It was more than just me that wasn't thrilled with this. You could see they understood the fragility of the elevator too. This was one of the times it was slow to start and stop and the door took it's time opening. I was glad to get out of there. I never have been a real fan of elevator rides anyway, this elevator didn't help my opinion at all. We found out when we came back to the hotel to change for the game that the only elevator left was not working either. Not only that, I met a lady in the stairway, (on my way up to the 7th floor!), who said her husband had been trapped on the elevator between floors. Ok, I knew something like that would happen. It was no joy to walk up and down 7 floors and we let the front desk know it. It was fixed by the time we came back from the game, but I wasn't convinced it would work, so I walked up the stairs again. Art can tell you, I was not pleased with the whole elevator situation.
Elevator aside, we enjoyed our visit to Pittsburgh.
