So I woke up this morning at 7:30am, and for some reason, it made PERFECT sense to just throw on my boots and get out in the snow. I originally was just going to take some pics of the immediate area's situation...then I decided to document my route to school. Next thing I know I'm saying screw it and walked all the way to Mellon Arena.
It was a very peaceful walk. Not many people out, obviously, and there was the steady "crunch, crunch" of my boots propelling me along. Walking was absolutely trecherous with lots of high drifts and huge patches of ice. Downtown was especially bad (brick sidewalks in places). I almost fell, easily, about 22-27 times.
The way I stumbled across the arenas (I haven't tried to head to them since being in PIT) was kind of ass-backward. All of a sudden the Consol Energy Center (Pens new arena, opens next season) was to my right, with Mellon Arena looming dead ahead. I must say, having not been to Mellon in a long...long time...it was kind of surreal to be back. I had a 10-minute conversation or so with a guy plowing the parking lot about the Pens chances against the Caps today, and then trudged off in solitude to take a lap around the old building.
I really enjoyed my lap. I wish the Pens store was open, but I totally understood why it wasn't. That's probably good for my wallet anyway (I still need a Pens hat though, my OU one is on its last legs). Anyway, I was the only person in the area, sans four of five plow trucks clearing the lots. Just seeing Mellon again for the first time in over a decade, all the Pens fanfare...well...
..PIT just feels like home...
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