Pittsburgh!!!

In January Leo randomly decided to go to a class in Pittsburgh for work and we had enough points on our credit card for me to fly out with him!!! YAY!!!!  So I sneakily planned and executed an awesome plan to surprise my sister Kayli.  And she was so surprised, she said it didn't even register in her brain for a while that it was us on her doorstep.  Then we spent three days together while Leo went to class. It was so fun!!  We had grand plans to go to Falling Water and to Meadowcroft, but it was cold so instead we went to Goodwill and Target and Joann's.  We did go to the Frick Museum and the Cathedral of Learning at the Univ. of Pittsburgh to see the Nationality rooms, which were very cool.  And one night Kayli and Brett and Leo and I went to an escape room, which we escaped and that was really fun.


 
So lots of cars from the Frick museum.  This was my favorite carriage.


My favorite car because it matched my shirt. Plus 60+ miles to the gallon. Sweet. Wish I got that in my van.   Also cars were so much cooler looking and fun colored back then. They're all boring now.
   This was one of three Rolls Royces the Frick family ordered at the same time (one for Dad, Mom and big sister) all custom made (colors, dash gauges, interior colors etc).  Crazy.


Then we went to the Frick greenhouse, right next to the kids' play house--and it was a REAL house.  Seriously.


 And I tried to take photos of one dress that was gorgeous to remember the details, but the glass was not cooperative with my phone camera. Also I wanted to actually go through  the Frick residence but I didn't think our kids would be good for the hours long guided tour.  :(  And the Underclothes touring exhibit from the Victoria and Albert was all boxed up ready to ship out.  So disappointing.

But we got to have lunch with our husbands at Luke Wholey's and even met Robert Wholey.  Sweet, eh.  They liked us at the beginning but not after our kids *cough* trashed the place.  Yummy swordfish though.  Then we went to the Nationality Rooms. I loved all the carved wood!!! Lucky my phone was dying or there'd be oodles more pictures on here.

I think I should recreate this tapestry with appliqué on a quilt for my boys.  It would be awesome!

Hungary.

Czech

The actual church next door.


And Japan.

Also we dressed Efraim up as a rabbit twice. He didn't like it either time.

Kayli missed out on these sweet boots from Goodwill.

















Leo and I got a call from our babysitters, a young couple in our ward, asking about what to do about Lando's split head.  I gave awesome directions on supergluing over the phone.  They sent us this photo to reassure us.




When I found out about Leo's class I decided to make Kayli a quilt--I actually saw the pattern in December and bought it then for some unknown later time but I couldn't pass up actually bringing it to her. So I quilted very quickly.

After our awesome escape.  We made a good team--every one chipped in.  And then we went out for yummy Thai.  Leo and I also ate at Gauchos and The Milkshake Factory, I highly recommend both.  Kayli and Brett were sweet and took Efraim for a night too.  Oh, and Leo and I ate at our favorite gyro place in the O'Hare airport and then he took me out for steak again in Ft. Collins where he went to the temple and I went to Joanns again.  All in all, it was a marvelous time.  So much fun to see Kayli!!!

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