Penguin Road Trip Part 2

After getting back from Foxwoods I went directly to civilian job to take a nap, but couldn’t. I guess I slept enough in the room and on the bus. So after working a little bit(there’s like a 3 hour gap here that I’m racking my brain about which I have no clue what I did. Maybe caught up on wrestling) I took New Jersey Transit to Newark to see the Penguins/Devils game. What a shit show that game was. First off, fuck the Prudential Center and it’s ridiculous banisters. First row on the aisle? You’re basically looking at a banister and glass. Total shit. Never EVER get those seats if you go there. Plus the Penguins played like crap. Malkin scored a goal but that’s it. I’ll post a pic of my seat angle on twitter.

After that the girlfriend and I went back to her house for a couple days. She still lives with mom and dad(to save money😍) and they like me I think. The dad teases me because I eat a lot which is a surprise because I don’t usually but the food there is really good. You always tell when people like you when they feel comfortable enough to lightly make fun of you. We watched the Super Bowl too. Girlfriends sister and her BF came over. He’s a big Patriot fan, but that makes sense since he’s from Mass and is part of the brainwashed Patriot Cult. They’ll excuse anything the team or refs do as I know from Foxwoods. The dad loves the Cowboys so he was cheering NE. Thank God Eagles won because NE is the most cheated for team in the league. They actually maybe slightly favored Philly in this one but clearly karma is a bitch.

The next day me, GF, and the mom hung out watching Dr Phil. This mom and grandma kept accusing the father of sexually abusing the daughter but had no proof and Phil wasn’t having it. Later we watched Jeopardy and I got lots of answers right, naturally. After that we took an Uber back to Newark, but this time to go to Pittsburgh to see the city and go see the Vegas Golden Knights face the Penguins in Marc-Andre Fleurys big return. Bus was ok. It was on a path to St Louis so it was partially full and after the first stop the GF and I got to sit together. We had no hotel room so we made sure to sleep on the bus.

I have some Pittsburgh lady friends who gave me advice on what to do(we got in at 6am and the game started at 7pm) there. First thing was we took an Uber to this diner called Delucas. Very good. I got peanut butter pancakes and she got honey pecan pancakes. We had like a 2 hour gap before Pittsburgh “woke up” and while we should have gone up the Duquesne Incline I wasn’t too good with the geography so we checked out Rivers Casino instead. The Uber took 45 minutes. No tip. Nobody in the poker room at 830am on a Tuesday. Most casinos on the east coast would have a bit of action at that time but not there.

After that we did do incline. We got 3 of the squashed pennies with the crank and designs. It was a nice view of the city. I did this the previous time I came to Pittsburgh(Game 1 of the SCF vs Predators last year) but I got more pennies this time. The lady who took my ticket was intrigued I lived in NYC and spoke to us for a while.

Later we headed over to the National Aviary. This was super cool. We saw real life Penguins and other cool birds. Some not even in cages and just flying around by you. I fed a few birds fish. I threw this last fish directly into the pelican type things mouth with solid aim.

After that we went over to the Andy Warhol museum. The GF and I aren’t the artsy types but we did see all the stuff. There’s 6 floors of his work and some of it was interesting so good experience.

I purchased tickets to do the tour of PPG Paints Arena but we got hungry so we went to this spot called The Souper Bowl. The big thing about this place was they had provolone cheese sticks. I never knew that was a thing. They were great. I recommend this place if you’re ever in town. Prices good too🙌🏻🙌🏻

The tour was fun. Saw a lot of the building and learned a few things about the Penguins. College girl was our tour guide and it took a bit but she found her groove guiding us. They show Suite 66 and the visitors locker room on non-game days so that was a bummer. But hey good time still. We still had 2 hours to kill after tour so we hit up Pizza Bosa. Lots of Penguins fans in there and it was a wonderful feeling. We both rested our eyes because we were both feeling the day at that point.

Finally it was time for the game! We had second to the last row and that was good, but then this elderly couple 6 rows ahead offered to switch because the husband couldn’t get up the stairs if he went down them. Much better seats. Legit 100 dollars of value. The game was insane. We were down 2-0 and then scored 5 straight and won 5-4. Fleury got a massive hand and his video was incredible. Great great time.

After that we had to take the bus back to NYC. The bus back is on the strip where Delucas is and it’s scary and run down as fuck at night. Luckily Primanti Brothers is over there. Very famous Pittsburgh eatery. The “bus station” looks like a crack house that they never sweep up. Luckily the bus came and  all went well. I’ll actually do another blog pretty soon because I did go to the casino for a few days after this trip but this blog too long now.