First college visit.....cool!

Well another page turns in our lives. Taylor and I flew to Pittsburgh Sunday to visit Franciscan University

The University is 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh in Steubenville Ohio. We started by dropping Taylor off at the dorms. We were fortunate enough to meet a student at the mall at Christmas time. She invited Taylor to stay with her during her visit. I took a quick look around the dorm....nothing special...it's a dorm room. They are small and crowded, just like I remembered. After a few minutes I left Taylor to "experience " dorm life with Liz. The real tour of the college was the following day.

What to do in Steubenville Ohio......nothing. I stayed at the motel 8...$79. It was very clean...but it was a motel....looked and smelled of a motel. Tim the front desk clerk gave me the layout of the town. Tim was a townie, growing up in the area. He was about my age. Scary thing....he had no idea how big the town was. Anyway, he gave me the basic directions. It was still light out so I just drove around for an hour or so. The town has about 20,000 residents. It's an old Mill town....that has seen better days. The down town was really run down. The biggest feature was all of the murals they had painted on the abandoned buildings and all the churches.. In two square blocks there must of been 6-7 different churches.

I had some pasta a beer at the only place that was open in downtown. Tim had suggested the place. Food was OK, beer was cold. The bartender and waitress were friendly enough.....although I was the only customer in the place. It was their slow night!

More on the trip in another post!