Day 9 – Falling Water and Ohipyle

Day 9 – Falling Water and Ohipyle

Our ninth day started really relaxed with breakfast at the dorm at 8:30. After breakfast we went to the cars and the two hour journey to falling water began. We had to wait some time in the beautiful visitor center after our arrival, and because of that the majority of us visited the museum shop and a small art gallery with some decent art for very indecent prices. My first impression of Falling Water was, that it looks much bigger when you see it from a large distance as when you’re standing in front of it. Our tour guide had a bunch of really interesting facts about the house. It was a weekend residence for a rich family from Pittsburgh, the Kaufmann family. Now it is managed by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which also bought a big part of the forest around the house to preserve the landscape. The house itself is beautiful; Frank Loyd Wright had very good ideas and made some fine details. The house is built with only four materials, stone, steel, wood and glass. Most of the rooms are rectangular shaped and the height of them varies. It is very impressive which effects he made with some architectural techniques.

After our visit to Falling Water we went to the Ohiopyle State Park and enjoyed a two hour bike tour through the forest. The bikes were good and we reached nice speeds. When we brought our bikes back, we drunk the most of our drinks and started the journey back to the dorms. It turned out, that it will become a real journey, when the road which Megan wanted to take was closed. So we had to take a big detour and reached Eat’n’Park at nine. Luckily it were only six miles from there to the dorms, and it was quiet and dark at our floor at 11:30.