Pittsburgh

My husband and I had driven to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the long May weekend.   We had met Tom and Jess many years ago (before children) when we were vacationing in the Bahamas.  We clicked right away and they are one of the few couples we enjoy doing things with. 

Jess and Tom are very active in their Lutheran church - Tom's father was a pastor.  They had a wedding to attend on Saturday so Jess asked one of her friends, Jane if she could play a tour guide in their absence.

Jane was really nice and we hit it off right away.  It was a beautiful sunny day so we headed to an outdoor shopping mall.  We couldn't do anything in the downtown core that weekend like the Warhol museum.  Tim McGraw was in town and all the parking spots were full.

It was one of the first gorgeous sunny Spring days.  Jane and I were walking around while Jim was in a men's clothing store.  We spotted a woman walking towards us with what looked like a puppy, so we stopped to pat it.

"He's hot.  He's been in the car", the dog owner said.

Jane and I approached then realized there was something off about the "dog".

"It's a fox", the woman explained.

It was a fox. A fox that was not moving and had a glad red eye.  It was a taxidermy fox.

Suitably creeped out, Jane and I did not pat the dead fox but backed away as politely as we could.  We retreated into one of the nearby shops to regroup  Apparently the woman, her companion and the dead fox had been kicked out of many stores that morning for carrying around a dead animal.  She referred to it as her service fox.

Later we stopped off at an ice cream shop that had a chocolate castle and home made treats.

Pittsburg is a really nice city.

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