Pittsburgh at Christmas

We took an afternoon & evening to see Pittsburgh all decked out for Christmas. We love this trip. It's nice family time. Two years ago, Scott & I took Dave & Carissa, last year we took Sarah & John, this year we took the boys. We always come into the downtown via the North shore & past PNC Park stadium.














It was so neat coming across the bridge & see that even the pots were wrapped in Christmas!












On our way to PPG Plaza we past the Horne's Christmas tree.














We had some difficulties getting in, so we looped around again & as we did we stopped at the Manger scene at the USX building.










Across the street is a church squeezed between 2 big buildings.
















We finally made it in to Market Square to park. PPG Plaza is always so beautifully decorated for Christmas! Here are a few pictures.
















Of course we have to stop at the ginger bread house display.













Look Sarah what we found... a ginger bread pyramid!

















Here's a view of the ice skating rink at the center of the plaza as we went in to see the Winter Gardens.














Inside the gardens.

Looking up!

The train display around the giant tree.

Heading back to the car.

Then we drove around for awhile & ended up on Mt. Washington. It was sooo windy up there, but the view was fabulous!
















This is the church we were parked across.






Afterward we headed up to Squirrel Hill to eat at Uncle Sam's Submarines. It was a nice way to end the day.


















On the way back to the car to go home, we came across a shop called The Chocolate Moose. For those of you who don't know, Andrew has been dubbed "Moose" by the youth group. So it seemed fitting to take this picture.