Wall

The forbes field wall. It's pretty much just a brick wall in the
middle of the PITT campus. But the history and the stories this wall
could tell...

Home plate

The actual location and home plate of the old Forbes filed.

Babe Ruth hit his final three home runs here. And Bill Mazeroski hit
the game winning home run from this point in 1960.

Ticket.

We got our 9 dollar tickets for tonights game. And that's willie
stargell there in the background

Clark cafe.

At lunch at the Clark Cafe. It's at the old Clark Bar building.

That's Nabil and his friend Jodi

This cafe is under the Tribune offices.

Roberto

Outside PNC park on our way to lunch.

Well be back here for the San diego game tonight.

Really steep

Walking to the bus stop by nabils house. This hill is really steep and
fun to walk down.

Sportscenter and wall of lebron

This is Nabils living room. Where sportscenter is almost always on and
the "LeBron Wall" is always being updated.

One of the more recent updates... A photo by misty from the all star
game.

Steel City, round two

I'm back in Pittsburgh for another weekend of Pirates baseball and whatever else we do.

We're getting ready to head out, but I just wanted to let you know to keep checking back because I figured out a way to post to this blog from my phone. So I'll be posting photos on the go.

First stop today... Lunch.

Second stop... The old Forbes Filed wall.

so stay tuned for the adventures of Nabs and Matt

18 Ten Ten

The Mannings were in town this last weekend for the annual Manning Passing Academy. A camp geared towards high school quarterbacks and receivers. (but Tight Ends and Running Backs can go too)

This years camp had a little more meat behind it because Peyton and Eli are both Super Bowl MVP's now.

Anyway, here are a couple shots and a video I made from the event.






A cool thing happened on Friday while I was shooting the camp. I saw three little kids all wearing Manning jerseys. Two Eli's and a Peyton. I followed them around trying to get a cool shot of all three. I asked their grandpa for their names. He was really nice and told me he was Peyton Manning's high school football coach. I told him that I had taken a picture of him and Peyton last year at this camp.

And he went "OOHHH yea!!! that was you? I loved that picture. They've got it hanging in that restaurant. And it's autographed by Peyton. That was a great shot."

I had forgot that the picture ran in the Times Picayune. And his son owns a pizza place in New Orleans. They had printed the picture, got it autographed and hung it in the pizza place.

So on Saturday, after feeding ducks and playing Frisbee, Misty, Taylor and I went there for dinner. Pretty cool I thought.

here's the three kids...


And here's the picture from the pizza joint.

Sparks Flew, Emtions ran high

I can't quite back this fact up, but I'm pretty sure Friday was the first time since before college I haven't worked on the 4th of July. With the exception of the summer I spent in North Carolina and didn't have a job, I think I've had to work on every fourth of July.

But that didn't stop me from taking pictures.

So Friday afternoon Misty, Taylor and I picked up some fireworks at a local stand, grabbed some lunch, then hit up a Dollar General store for some cheap toys.

We headed over to Val and Dustins place and slid on the homemade slip-n-slide (huge piece of plastic, dishwasher soap and water). After drying off, we ate some crawfish and started popping fireworks.

In past years, I've ether had to not pop fireworks because I've been working, or had to leave the party early to go work.

After a few hours of smoke bombs, waterproof firecrackers in the bayou and other random fireworks, we busted out the cheap Dollar General toys.

Misty got some plastic boats that we strapped fireworks too and pushed them into the bayou.



After the toys were destroyed and the night came to an end, Misty and Taylor went on a sparkler marathon. I don't know how many they went through, but it was a bunch.



I didn't shoot many pictures throughout the night, but Misty did. I know she got some really cool stuff during sunset and me jumping by the light of one of those strobe things. So check with her to see some better photos. But here are a few I did shoot during the sparkler marathon at the end of the night.


We had a bunch of stuff left over, so now we're ready for New Years Eve.