I have the Cathedral of Learning interior pics but Maria is putting me to work in the kitchen. I've barely been able to escape her salt mines this last week but she has promised me 5 minutes of sunlight tomorrow so long as I cook a chili*.
So I'll be uploading some pics later from the cathedral, I have to apologise though as I was wandering around taking pics of every special room I could, some of them aren't the best but it should give you a good flavour of what its like. What is really cool is that they are actually used as classrooms, but this does mean you can't alwas get in to see them. As a result I missed a couple, but I'll cover that later. I was most put out to discover that there was an Irish, Scottish and English room but no Welsh room. According to the pamphlet there is one planned though so it has escaped any Meirion Glyndwr style reprisals. Pics soon.
*All Matt stories should be served with pinches of salt to taste.
Showing posts with label cathedral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cathedral. Show all posts
Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Cathedral
You've seen pics of the outside, the inside is awesome. I went there yesterday, they have 'Nationaloty Rooms'. They ran out of money before finishing the lower 3 doors so they asked different communities to donate money, in return they got to desigh a room of their own (or something like that). Pics later today I am off to a diner then gonna try and work out a way to get to the Mattress Factory. I realy will do pics to I promise! I know this is becoming just a stream of text!
Monday, 22 January 2007
Sleepless in Pittsburgh
So we went to Philly this weekend, arrived at the hotel around midnight so I stopped for some drinks at the bar, the barman was an arse and pretty sure he over charged us in between complaining about how he should have made a billion dollars inn tips that night.
Anyway, I chose this point in my trip to sleep past noon, I have no idea why this is the case - Bushmills Whiskey not withstanding. Anyway, we went into Philadelphia in the afternoon and drove around to get ur bearings. We managed to spend some time in the Independence centre which was actually quite cool. I have some pics of an area we later found out we weren't meant to take pictures of, it was actually pretty cool inside but will pro do a post on it or just fail to bore you with it entirely. Obviously we swung by the Rocky steps too!
I managed to prop up the hotel bar with a few more bar flys and a far cooler bar tender for the duration of the evening. We would have gone out somewhere in Philly but 'Hotel in Philadelphia' can mean anything up to hour out of the city!
Next day, I managed once again to sleep in thought considering the quantities of Bushmills I was consuming this is less surprising. The barman hardly charged me for any of my drinks and the measures he wsa giving me were ludicrous, I don't normaqlly drink whiskey striaght but Bushmills is really nice.
Anyway we went back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art which is mind blowing, they had so much cool stuff there. I don't know how many of you saw my picture of 'Boy with Duck' in my Carnegie Museum of Art adventure,but here they had 'Boy with Rooster'. I am now convinced they is one of these in every American museum. On top of that they had Picasso (Sunflowers and others), Degas, Constable, Pollack, Turner and hundreds of others. We were there most of the afternoon, I didn't get to see it all. I have lots of pics but a lot are rubbish. Again there was a section where I was inexplicably not alowed to take photos 'Hey! No photos sir! this is a special exhibition!'. 'Are you quite sure? It looks like some has just dropped a neon sign here'.
Don't worry, I was able to keep my mouth shut when yelled at by the uniformed troglodyte! I only got pissed off because there was no explanation as to why or indeed any signs explaining that photos weren't allowed in the Bar Sign room. It would appear that I am back tp my waking up at the crack of dawn self. Philadelphia, along with being the City of Brotherly love, would also appear to be a sedative.
Anyways pics later.
Anyway, I chose this point in my trip to sleep past noon, I have no idea why this is the case - Bushmills Whiskey not withstanding. Anyway, we went into Philadelphia in the afternoon and drove around to get ur bearings. We managed to spend some time in the Independence centre which was actually quite cool. I have some pics of an area we later found out we weren't meant to take pictures of, it was actually pretty cool inside but will pro do a post on it or just fail to bore you with it entirely. Obviously we swung by the Rocky steps too!
I managed to prop up the hotel bar with a few more bar flys and a far cooler bar tender for the duration of the evening. We would have gone out somewhere in Philly but 'Hotel in Philadelphia' can mean anything up to hour out of the city!
Next day, I managed once again to sleep in thought considering the quantities of Bushmills I was consuming this is less surprising. The barman hardly charged me for any of my drinks and the measures he wsa giving me were ludicrous, I don't normaqlly drink whiskey striaght but Bushmills is really nice.
Anyway we went back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art which is mind blowing, they had so much cool stuff there. I don't know how many of you saw my picture of 'Boy with Duck' in my Carnegie Museum of Art adventure,but here they had 'Boy with Rooster'. I am now convinced they is one of these in every American museum. On top of that they had Picasso (Sunflowers and others), Degas, Constable, Pollack, Turner and hundreds of others. We were there most of the afternoon, I didn't get to see it all. I have lots of pics but a lot are rubbish. Again there was a section where I was inexplicably not alowed to take photos 'Hey! No photos sir! this is a special exhibition!'. 'Are you quite sure? It looks like some has just dropped a neon sign here'.
Don't worry, I was able to keep my mouth shut when yelled at by the uniformed troglodyte! I only got pissed off because there was no explanation as to why or indeed any signs explaining that photos weren't allowed in the Bar Sign room. It would appear that I am back tp my waking up at the crack of dawn self. Philadelphia, along with being the City of Brotherly love, would also appear to be a sedative.
Anyways pics later.
Friday, 19 January 2007
Update
OK, so what have bee up to? I can tell you are all on the edge of your seats.
So Wednesday I did absolutely nothing, which in one respect is bad but in another that's what I see the point of a 2 week holiday is. You pretty much do the stuff you'd do in a one week hooilday only you do it at a more leisurely pace. Anyway, I went to the Hookah Bar with Maria, later joined by Stefan. It was a relly cool place, something really different. I have a couple pics on Maria's camera but she is still snoozin after last night's festivities - more on that later ;)
That's pretty much all i did on Wednesday, unless you ount losing at Uno all night. In fact, statiscally, I had more chance of contracting leprosy than losing Uno so many times at the Hookah bar. I managed to lose every single game. I was very proud.
Yesterday i wen tto the Phipps Conservatory which was quite pleasant, then a bit of a stroll then I went to the Fuel and Fettle bar. I had a pint or two reading USA Today then Maria came a little later. I got quite drunk and ate bacon and pankcakes with syrup. Just a quick note on American Beer - as has been reported by a few of my friends, it's pretty good so long as you avoid the name brand shit that tastes of soda water.
Some of it is really weird like a cross between lager and ale, as a result in many ways it is more flavourful than European lagers. Granted sometimes it tastes like crap, but that's true of European beers too. Anyway I ha d acouple pints of some local beer called Rude Brew which was pretty tasty, then made the mistake of moving on to Jack Daniels.
Most of my pics are up on Ringo now, I am going to be uploading some to the blog too but it takes an age for some reason so here are a couple of the outside of the Cathedral of Learning and a few shots from the Art Museum.
The last one is my favourite, I've not explored the place yet, next week Bilal and I will be havoing a mooch around an dhopefully getting right up the top. It'll be interesting cos i am terrified of heights.
I'll update this post later with some pics from the gallery, just thought I would publish it 'as is' for the time being. Off to Philly later, so may not be here for a few days - thouhgt Maja is tempting me to take the lappy with me. My inner geek is crying at me to do so.
So Wednesday I did absolutely nothing, which in one respect is bad but in another that's what I see the point of a 2 week holiday is. You pretty much do the stuff you'd do in a one week hooilday only you do it at a more leisurely pace. Anyway, I went to the Hookah Bar with Maria, later joined by Stefan. It was a relly cool place, something really different. I have a couple pics on Maria's camera but she is still snoozin after last night's festivities - more on that later ;)
That's pretty much all i did on Wednesday, unless you ount losing at Uno all night. In fact, statiscally, I had more chance of contracting leprosy than losing Uno so many times at the Hookah bar. I managed to lose every single game. I was very proud.
Yesterday i wen tto the Phipps Conservatory which was quite pleasant, then a bit of a stroll then I went to the Fuel and Fettle bar. I had a pint or two reading USA Today then Maria came a little later. I got quite drunk and ate bacon and pankcakes with syrup. Just a quick note on American Beer - as has been reported by a few of my friends, it's pretty good so long as you avoid the name brand shit that tastes of soda water.
Some of it is really weird like a cross between lager and ale, as a result in many ways it is more flavourful than European lagers. Granted sometimes it tastes like crap, but that's true of European beers too. Anyway I ha d acouple pints of some local beer called Rude Brew which was pretty tasty, then made the mistake of moving on to Jack Daniels.
Most of my pics are up on Ringo now, I am going to be uploading some to the blog too but it takes an age for some reason so here are a couple of the outside of the Cathedral of Learning and a few shots from the Art Museum.
The last one is my favourite, I've not explored the place yet, next week Bilal and I will be havoing a mooch around an dhopefully getting right up the top. It'll be interesting cos i am terrified of heights.
I'll update this post later with some pics from the gallery, just thought I would publish it 'as is' for the time being. Off to Philly later, so may not be here for a few days - thouhgt Maja is tempting me to take the lappy with me. My inner geek is crying at me to do so.
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