Yes, I’m still in Pittsburgh. yes, it snowed. No, not alot. But enough to remind me…hey, this cold shit is why I LEFT IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Kev and I spent new years eve wandering around downtown pittsburgh, bored out of our skulls because apparently, Pittsburghers have learned to construct invisible tents. And they lie. Because according to the paper, downtown was going to be CHOCK FULL OF FUN NEW YEARS EVE ACTIVITIES! But all we saw were mobs of people and sketchy vendors selling various cheapie new year’s festive pimp hats and light up 2008 glasses. I got a new years deelie bobber headband. w00t! According to EVERYONE…there was a tent. A HUGE TENT! Right over…somewhere. My dad said it was right near where he worked. And we walked and walked and retraced steps and THERE WAS NO TENT! There was a concert stage…empty…which eventually featured the Clarks, but there was no constant stream of concerts featuring cool local music, no “tent” promising loads of fun that we could find. Only lines for things we needed vouchers for to get in to. And cold. Lots of the cold.
So we ate a late dinner at a greek restaurant and then watched the Clarks until midnight and fireworks. Happy New Year…now lets get to the T station so we have a snowballs chance in hell of getting a train back to the car before 2am.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!!
Now I need to go read the 345 blog posts bloglines says I have waiting for me…
From what I remember of Pittsburgh’s First Night (and it’s been almost 10 years since I went to one, but we did it every year for the first 5 years they had it), a lot of stuff was going on in the various PPG buildings and around PPG Plaza. The Winter Garden used to have a fair amount of stuff in it, especially.
Now that I live in one of the New Year’s capitals of the world, I generally spend New Year’s at my house. Wouldn’t catch me dead in Times Square, and that’s saying something since I have a friend who lives three blocks from it and would therefore have a place to crash afterwards.
Sounds like a cold way to spend New Years–I did something similar near Detroit one year. Froze my boobies off and had little fun, so I’m not doing it again.
Julie - The last time I did first night was the milenium, and I remember more stuff going on. This time, the winter garden was CLOSED, if you can believe it! Just the ice skating rink was open, and this homegirl don’t play that game. There was some stuff going on at 5th avenue place, but the stuff in heinz hall and the arthur miller dance studio you had to get vouchers for. there was very little going on outside
PW - I have a coat that would make an eskimo jealous, so my boobies were fine. my legs were a bit chilly, though.
See? You should have spent your New Year’s with us drinking sake, having yummy Japanese food and cranium!