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Didn't do a heck of a lot yesterday. Despite going to sleep around 10pm local time, still woke up around 5.30am as my body clock hasn't adjusted yet. As it was a sunday, the only place we could find which was doing breakfast was McDonald's. I had a bacon, egg and cheese "biscuit" (American for scone) but found it was tiny so gorged on 2 helpings of Hot Cakes. Found the pancakes to be very nice but that was probably to do with the high fat and sugar content. Washed it all down with some Barq's root beer, my first taste of root beer so far on this trip :).

After getting back to the hotel, we got a taxi and went to The Mall at Robinson. Which is a largish mall near the town of Robinson, which is around 3/4 of the way back to the airport from downtown Pittsburgh. As we got there, it seemed that most of the shops were closed but they all opened shortly after we arrived as it appears they open at 11am on Sunday. Got me a new Gir t-shirt from Hot Topic, some trainers from Vans and Animaniacs Volume 3 from FYE (which I hope to get Robert Paulson to sign). Also took the oppertunity to get some swimming trunks in Sears as I had forgot to pack the ones I bought during FC last year :P One thing we noticed is that everyone is so friendly and polite. Not just in the shops where they're trying to sell you stuff, but people opening doors for others and saying "Thank you" and "you're welcome". I guess I'm not used to that coming from the UK, kinda suprising that we're so much worse than the Americans for politeness.

After shopping, I called the taxi company to pick us up but they were permanently busy. Which was quite worrying for what appears to be the only taxi company in Pittsburgh. Fortunately we got a card off the guy who dropped us off and called him. He picked right up and said he'd be there in 15 mins which we were really greatful for. True to his word, he picked us up and dropped us off at the hotel. We had planned to go to a sit down restaurant at this time and finally decided on pizza. I did a bit of searching on the net and Pizza Parma looked like it should be a good place and it was close to the hotel. Though once we got there, it looked a bit run down so we decided to go somewhere else. Ended up at a place called something like Giovanni's or similar. It didn't look like anything special either and the soda was flat but the pizza was amazing. Possibly the best I've ever had come to think of it. Couldn't put my finger on what made me like it so much but it was good. They also gave us canned drinks with lots ice to replace the flat fountain drinks so was all good.

Got back to the hotel and while we did intend to go out again, we ended up just crashing from tiredness. I woke up this morning pretty early feeling really wrong. Like I was gonna throw up or something, but I didnt. I think it was just bad indigestion again. The problem is now I'm in the land of overindulgence, I've been taking advantage of that. It was a literal wake up call to me to be a bit more careful with what I eat. Need to get me some vitamin suppliments too as I don't want to end up with con crud before the con!

Anyway, we're off to the diner in a bit. Laters!

Date: 2007-07-02 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xendragon.livejournal.com
Hullo mr international!

I'm not surprised you felt sick after eating crap like McDonald's breakfasts and gassy pop :o I'm going to sound like a right knob, however If you want to get vitamins and nourishment eat more fruit and veg and drink plenty of water, I'm turning more veggie now, and i can tell you I never used to eat half the stuff i do these days. There is a lot of tasty stuff you can make and you end up feeling a lot better too :P~~

Hope you have a great time at the con. I need to start saving to go to San fran now!

Date: 2007-07-02 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slycat.livejournal.com
Yeah, need some fruit and water rather than the fizzy drinks :P

Date: 2007-07-02 11:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] streakthetiger.livejournal.com
Heya :)
Sorry you skipped out on Parma Pizza. I went there more than a few times last year. I do agree that it's not the best place to sit down and eat at. But dun let that scare you away from snagging some pizza to go. Their pizza was really really really good :D Really :P

And i'm actually kinda surprised to hear that you think everyone here in the US is so friendly. Mostly cause it seems that most Americans say the same about other countries and talk about how rude Americans are :p Glad you seem to be having a good time :)

Anyways, my ex [livejournal.com profile] sunookitsune and I are off to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. We've been here since yestarday and we'll be here till the 12th so give me a call anytime if ya wanna meet up ^.^ 602-386-8764

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