Pittsburgh Travels.

We had fall break this week, and I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Pittsburgh and stay with a friends’ family. I was accompanied by many other friends, making this trip even more delightful. Besides enjoying superb hospitality and delicious food, we were able to spend a day in downtown Pittsburgh, which was awesome. The University of Pittsburgh has this incredible and incredibly huge building called the Cathedral of Learning. It is full of classrooms, but these are not your everyday college classrooms. Each room is designed for a different country so that you feel like you’re in Disney world every time you step into one– but a touch more realistic. It was an incredible building, which made me want to learn more just by being in it. It also caused an annoying little thought to be bouncing around my head called, “Why am I at Bethel?” I tried to stifle the classroom envy.

We also visited their huge library where they have an entire wall full of foreign films. Lovely. Their library also has big windows overlooking the natural history museum right next door. On one of the windows, we discovered a small blue post-it, which read, “All those children down there are so little and so young. I wonder if they will even remember visiting here.” That was enjoyable.

We finished up the evening by visiting all seven floors of the Andy Warhol museum, which I particularly enjoyed because I don’t think I’ve ever been to a full-fledged art museum before. We saw a large painting which had been covered in  copper. Mr. Warhol then recruited five of his artist friends to pee on the copper so that it would oxidize and create some brilliant art. According to what was in their diets, the copper oxidized differently. It created a very interesting piece of art. I was immediately drawn to it from across the room, and upon reading the small sign beside it and discovering the above information, I had to laugh and enjoy it even more. There was also a magical room that made me feel like I was in the middle of a scene from Willy Wonka. Rectangular silver balloons filled this room and floated whimsically about it. A sign said, “You may play with the silver pillows,” which I most certainly did. They were filled with a mixture of helium and oxygen, causing them to float continual up and down and all around. It was a splendid time.

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~ by lavendertomatoes on 17 October, 2011.