Good times and good friends

Robin and I had a chance to spend some QT with some good friends the past week. Starting with going to the Tim&Faith concert with Christina and Mark. Even though they are crazy busy with moving into their new home and in the final months of planning for their wedding, last Wednesday night the four of us headed out to the Palace of Auburn Hills for what turned out to be a good showing from the country power duo. Stage was a little tough to get a pic of but here is my best attempt (that's actually Taylor Swift, the opening act).

Following a brief recovery day, we headed down to Pittsburgh, PA to visit our good friends Rob and Becky Beltz. The Beltz's moved down to Venetia, PA, a beautiful little suburb south of town, earlier this year. This was our first chance to get down and see them. We stayed in Friday night to give Rob a chance to gingerly place a beer can in the backside of a chicken and then grill it for about an hour and a half. It was very tasty.

Saturday we spent a couple of hours biking the trails of the Great Allegheny Passage (http://www.atatrail.org/). We were traversing the brutal stretch between Hendersonville and McMurray. To reward ourselves along the way we stopped for gyros and icecream with our good friend who preferred to ride on a peeled banana.

Saturday evening was spent walking around the shops and bars of the Southside Works. Including dinner at the Cheesecake Factory and after dinner drinks at Tusca.



We wrapped up the weekend in PA with a home cooked breakfast, Beltz style and Robin and I were on the road home to see little B-Han. Who spent the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Bailey (Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for watching the little man).

After 4 hours and 35 minutes of easy driving we were home again and got to spend the rest of the afternoon at home with Bailey, Cira, Patty, and Vin. Here are a few pics of the cousins playing on the stairs:



All in all a great weekend and great memories!