peter boy

About a month ago my brother called me to tell me he was going to Philadelphia to meet up with some friends he met on his recent trip to Brazil for the M.O.R. E. Project and was hoping that he could come visit us too. Um, duh! Of course we wanted him to come and boy did we have a fun time while he was here!

Immediately after picking Peter up from the airport we headed straight to the Children's Museum per request of Braden. We love coming to the museum and it was fun to show off all the fun things to do there with Uncle Peter. We even got to experience the new exhibit all about air, Whooosh, where we made rockets and parachutes, blew bubbles and piloted an airplane!

 {making parachutes}

 

{making the parachute fly}

 

 {blowing bubbles}

 After going to the museum we headed back to the house, 

picked up Kam and headed to Primanti Brothers for a Pittsburgh Original.

 

The next day, Braden had a special Thanksgiving program and Feast at his school. All the classes sang songs they had each learned during the year followed by a huge Thanksgiving Feast provided by the parents.

 After the feast we headed into Pittsburgh to explore the city. 

Peter wanted to visit the Andy Worhol Museum so we headed there first.

 We were only allowed to take pictures in the lobby as cameras were restricted from every other area of the museum. It wouldn't have mattered too much though because a good chunk of what was in the museum were "nudie pics." Several times I had to cover Braden's eyes and focus his attention elsewhere. There was this really cool room called "silver clouds" where there were these rectangle, silver balloons that you could play with. They boys loved it! Braden also liked the Campbell Soup and Mickey Mouse prints.

 {just outside of the museum}

 {the view looking down the street from the museum}

 {it wasn't raining, but Carter just had to have his umbrella with him}

You really can't visit this city and not visit Heinz field so we headed there next. I can't believe that it has taken us over a year to come walk around the field. I guess this is why we love having visitors.

 {throwing leaves}

 {a little history}

{Peter with Art Rooney}

 {on the south side of the field}

{looking toward the city from the north shore...Peter, are you falling?}

 As we were walking around the field we found several other fun things to see like this tribute to Mr. Rogers...

 

 

{Peter tried climbing to the top}

 {and then fell down}

 {not really}

 ...and this is part of a police force memorial.

After checking out the Steelers stomping grounds we went across the river to the south side and went on the Duquesne Incline.

{taking in the view}

 {I love the view from the top}

Our last day with Peter was spent driving to Philadelphia.
Luckily we had some movies to make the ride go by faster.

As well as a stop to Hershey, PA.

The boys got to experience what it would be like to work in the factory by working the kiss packaging line...

 

...and riding the interactive factory tour ride!

We had so much fun with Peter and were sad to drop him off with his friends. Luckily we had some other fun things planned to do in Philly. 

*Thanks for coming to visit Peter Boy, we love you!