The Wedding in Pittsburgh

The primary reason for this summer's RV trip was to attend the wedding of Linda's oldest nephew in Pittsburgh on June 22.  After our adventures were over in the New River Gorge area, we high-tailed it to the Pittsburgh area. 

Pittsburgh has a dearth of campgrounds or RV parks.  After some research, we found Raccoon Creek State Park west of Pittsburgh and west of the airport, but in the flight path.  Most of the sites in this state park are too short, not level enough, or overgrown with trees preventing access by our large bus.  I called the park after discovering there were two ADA sites that were long enough.  The park office said we could reserve one of the sites. 

We arrived on the Tuesday, the 19th late afternoon.  Signage to enter the park wasn't great, so we pulled out and disconnected the towed car, so Linda could drive into the park to get the lay of the land.  That was a good move.  Linda called me a few minutes after entering the park to report she went over a bridge with a stated weight limit of 6 tons.  Since the bus weights almost 25 tons, we decided this would not be our route.  Linda drove to the west side of the park and found a doable, curvy, hilly, tree overgrown entrance.  She figured I could dodge most of the low hanging tree limbs.  We already hit our quota of tree limbs earlier in the trip in Charleston, so we didn't want to add to the total.

We made it into the unattended campground which wasn't very occupied.  The ADA site worked well, except no water was available at the site, so we had to drive a short distance in the campground to locate a water faucet to fill our tanks, since we would be boon-docking later in the week at the wedding hotel parking lot.  After filling the water tank we backed into our site seen below.

We stayed at the campground two nights before moving to the hotel parking lot.  Linda went to the hotel each day to help her sister with rehearsal dinner decorations and arrangements.  Thursday we moved to the hotel parking lot.  Linda did have a room at the hotel.  Tim stayed in the bus with the two cats.  You can see how Tim rates....oh, well.

The rehearsal dinner had a baseball theme since the groom is a sports anchor for the Steubenville, Ohio NBC station and the bride is a big sports fan.  See some of the decorations below.

On Friday, June 22 the wedding day arrived.  The groom, Robert (Linda's nephew), and the bride, Kim, were married shortly after 5 p.m.  We didn't get many good pictures, but this isn't too bad.

Following the wedding at a local church, the reception and dinner were held at the Embassy Suites Hotel.  Everyone had a great time and we're so proud of Robert & Kim.  We wish them the best.

Example of the reception/dinner decoration.

The wedding concluded, but not the weekend.  See the next post.