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After bidding Clare good bye, we headed off for Pittsburgh to have lunch with our nephew Azim. Within an hour the terrain started changing. We can see some mountains in the horizon and it is a welcoming gateway to the East.
We got to Pittsburgh a little early, so we found a post office and then after finding our meeting place we began the search for a parking space. We ended up in an underground parking garage, 4 levels underground (thank you again GPS!). We were at a spot where the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University meet. Students and their cars were EVERYWHERE! We passed by the U of Pitt’s, 40 story tower called the “Cathedral of Learning.” We had a few minutes to kill before meeting up with Azim, so we stopped in – and we felt like we had stepped into a Harry Potter movie (picture the dining hall, high vaulted ceilings, very impressive!). We also detected a lot of school pride with U of Pitt’s #1 seed selection in the NCAA tournament.
We met Azim, right on time at the Urban Grill for lunch (Joe and Sandy shared a Philly Cheese-steak sandwich and fries. The sandwich was HUGE!). We had great conversation and then Azim took us to his office that he shares with 4 other students on a NASA project.. Azim is doing his graduate work at Carnegie Mellon, working on some project that we really didn’t understand - something like virtual reality, but not. We’d like to say it was NASA top secret work and if we told you, we would probably have to kill you. But, that’s not the case. The truth is that we can remember when the first remote controls for TV came out and people were afraid of them. This is really really new new technology, and we’re clueless.
In the hall way near his office, there is a bulletin board of pictures of all the students working on various projects. There were “conversation bubbles” on many of them. Azim’s only had a bubble with a Dallas Cowboys logo, so we added another that said “Mom would be so proud!” And we know for a fact that she IS!
Tonight we will stay in a hotel, probably somewhere near Syracuse NY, on our way to the Burlington, VT area.
We got to Pittsburgh a little early, so we found a post office and then after finding our meeting place we began the search for a parking space. We ended up in an underground parking garage, 4 levels underground (thank you again GPS!). We were at a spot where the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University meet. Students and their cars were EVERYWHERE! We passed by the U of Pitt’s, 40 story tower called the “Cathedral of Learning.” We had a few minutes to kill before meeting up with Azim, so we stopped in – and we felt like we had stepped into a Harry Potter movie (picture the dining hall, high vaulted ceilings, very impressive!). We also detected a lot of school pride with U of Pitt’s #1 seed selection in the NCAA tournament.
We met Azim, right on time at the Urban Grill for lunch (Joe and Sandy shared a Philly Cheese-steak sandwich and fries. The sandwich was HUGE!). We had great conversation and then Azim took us to his office that he shares with 4 other students on a NASA project.. Azim is doing his graduate work at Carnegie Mellon, working on some project that we really didn’t understand - something like virtual reality, but not. We’d like to say it was NASA top secret work and if we told you, we would probably have to kill you. But, that’s not the case. The truth is that we can remember when the first remote controls for TV came out and people were afraid of them. This is really really new new technology, and we’re clueless.
In the hall way near his office, there is a bulletin board of pictures of all the students working on various projects. There were “conversation bubbles” on many of them. Azim’s only had a bubble with a Dallas Cowboys logo, so we added another that said “Mom would be so proud!” And we know for a fact that she IS!
Tonight we will stay in a hotel, probably somewhere near Syracuse NY, on our way to the Burlington, VT area.
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