The worst blended coffee I've ever had...courtesy of Kiva Han Coffee Shop in Pittsburgh.
Coffee:
-Hazelnut blend from Panera Bread on the University of Pittsburgh campus. I tried to go to Dunkin' Donuts to avoid coffee shop repeats, but I made the mistake of opening the door for a large group of large people. The lobby was then too crowded to fit me and I was feeling rather impatient. Eek.
-In the afternoon, I got a small blended cappuccino from Kiva Han Coffee Shop on Craig Street. It was the absolute worst blended coffee I've ever had...but at least the art/graffiti in the bathroom was cool. I enjoyed the worst coffee I've ever had by a cheery fountain on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University.
From the journal:
I am currently sitting in a little library room on the 36th floor of the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus. I tried to go to the 42nd (and highest) floor, but the elevator I was on refused to go above 38 even though it was marked for 42. Since it was the scariest elevator I've ever been on, I was happy to disembark on floor 36 after making it shake and squawk and wheeze to floor 38 and back.
I LOVE being this high up! There is a calm that comes over me when I lean my forehead against the window pane and gaze down upon the people, cars, and building so far below. It is quiet, and for a few precious moments, I feel as though nothing in the entire world can hurt me.
For lunch, I grabbed a huge slice of tomato and feta cheese pizza and enjoyed it in Schenley Plaza, which sits in the shadow of the Cathedral of Learning. I enjoyed people watching and sitting in the sun.
After lunch, I walked to the Carnegie Mellon museums of art and natural history but could tell I wasn't in a museum mood, so I continued on to Craig Street and poked around a few funky bookstores instead.
Books make me want coffee, so I stopped into a mobile Carnegie Mellon experiment truck to see if I could make a few bucks as a test subject. All I had to do was answer a few questions on a computer about art preferences, and I got $5 to buy more coffee! HA.
Jared and Julia and I went to happy hour at the Milk Shake Factory for dinner and got half-price milk shakes. Score! Then we had dessert at Local's Bar and Grill on the southside. I had a mojito chicken panini and sweet potato fries.
(Apparently all I did today was eat...)
After dinner, we went to an outdoor movie in Schenley Park. There were people and blankets everywhere, and I had a fine time watching Iron Man 2...for, oddly enough, the third time.
Pittsburgh has been a blast, and I will miss it.
Cathedral of Learning.
Inside the Cathedral of Learning. It is a truly remarkable place. The classrooms on the main floor are known as "Nationality Rooms" and are decorated to represent specific countries (Netherlands, China, Latvia, you name it). I think I would learn better in them :).
View of Carnegie Mellon museums of art and natural history from the 36th floor of the Cathedral of Learning.
Heinz Chapel on University of Pittsburgh campus.
Okay, I'll be a guinea pig for some coffee money...
The bathroom art/graffiti in the bathroom of Kiva Han Coffee Shop.
Kiva Han Coffee Shop. Don't get the blended cappuccino. And be prepared to have someone ask if they can read your tarot cards when you enter. And also be prepared to have the deceptively cute barista make you feel like the rudest person in the world for having the gall to order a terrible cup of coffee and interrupt his I'm-a-snobbish-hipster-barista-who-feels-too-cool-to-acknowledge-your-presence moment. Okay, I've said my piece.
Outdoor movie in Schenley Park. Good times.
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