Birthday Celebrations Begin

Today the birthday celebrations began... I went to dinner with Nat and my dad. We went to McCormick and Schmick's ... which by the below copy of the menu you can see it is a seafood restaurant -- if you look close, under the seafood restaurant line is the date (they print the menus every day depending on which fresh fish they get that day) ok so under the date - it says HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICOLE -- and since my name was on the menu -- well I got free dessert :) ha ha...

So Nat only went to dinner, she didn't want to go to the Pirates/White Sox game... Which come on - it was bobble head night... ha ha

Nat is a hockey fan and that is about it... While I do LOVE football - I can also sit and watch baseball -- err let me rephrase that - I can sit and watch it while I am at the park - on TV - well that is another thing...

OK, so we were sitting in the middle of the row, there were 5 guys to the left and about 9 people to the right... the 5 guys on the left were 40+ and apparently this is a Father's Day Tradition of theirs. They never shut up - if the one wasn't talking to his friends or ribbing the Sox fans in front of us - he was on his cell - YOU ARE AT A BALL GAME!!! YOU CANT HEAR THE PERSON - HANG UP!!! Oh and then the guy did a dance that, well no one should have to witness.

Sadly, the Pirates_Lost, but hey, do you see how cute that bobble head is?!

I think that Pittsburgh might not have one of the best baseball teams, but I think we have one of the best baseball stadiums. Have a look see for yourself -- here are just some shots that I took from my seat...

So the top Left picture is just from the first inning, the Sox were up to bat - the picture on the Right is a shot of Downtown Pittsburgh, the view from PNC Park...

And a shot of the scoreboard at PNC Park...

Now, as you may (or may not know), there are Pierogie races during the game... Yes you are reading that correctly -- I tried to get a picture of it - but it was a little difficult... but here it is... you can see the pierogies and the Pirate Parrot and the Pirate mascots in the bottom right side of the photo.

Well I am exhausted - so I am going to go to bed now...

More tomorrow - I will have more pictures to share tomorrow :)