Erika's Pittsburgh Wedding

This weekend I took a quick trip to Pittsburgh. My cousin was getting married. I literally was in Pittsburgh for 40 hours, and didn’t see much of anything but the hotel. I flew out with my brother and his fiancé. The wedding was great and it was fun to have all my family in one place….something that is becoming rare. The wedding was at a church right downtown Pittsburgh and in the heart of University of Pittsburgh campus. PITT was ranked #1 in the college brackets, but failed to make the final four. I can only imagine how crazy it would have been downtown PITT if they had made it….given the wedding was on the Sat. of the final four. Here are some pictures we took during the wedding.

I think my other favorite part of the trip was the plane ride home. When I boarded the plane, I thought I was on the wrong flight because the first 20 rows were taken by all guys who were HUGE! Most of them were African American and built! You know how Southwest has pick your own seats? Well, I was last to board and the only seats left were the middle seats between two people. As I was walking down the isle to find a seat two of these guys yelled out “Hey, NO Illini fans allowed in this seat.” I was wearing an ILLINI sweatshirt. He was definitely joking and in fact the guy next to him said that he just said that so I would sit there….. It was tempting….maybe I would have if I was in a flirtatious mood and didn’t have a 1000 papers to grade. Later I found out that it was the Chicago Slaughters Arena Football league that was on the flight. I sure wasn’t complaining…..I mean a flight with 50 very built and athletic football players…..I can handle that

My grandparents and I