Day20: From the falls to Fallingwater

First of all, we did some calculating today: we've been through 23 states plus the District of Columbia and into Canada and we've driven over 5600 miles. And we're still speaking to each other and Mr Ripley is still wagging his tail!
This morning we left Niagara Falls around 7:30, stopped in Buffalo for some coffee, juice and pastries and then set out for Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. We had reserved tickets there so we had to stay on a pretty tight driving schedule. That meant we couldn't drive through the Amish farm country but we did see an Amish woman and her child (both dressed in full Amish drag) selling pies in front of a gas station. I really wanted to buy one of her pies but we couldn't figure out where we'd put it.
Fallingwater is out in the middle of nowhere! We got there around 1:15pm and since it was so hot we didn't want to leave Mr R in the car so we so we decided to take separate tours with one of us staying with him while the other toured. There is a cafe with outside seating in the visitors' center but a Falling Water staffer hustled over to me as I was heading that way and informed me that dogs were only allowed in the parking lot and nowhere else. So Dwyne sat with the dog on a boulder under some trees while I took the tour and then I did the same while Dwyne toured. Mr Ripley tried to eat every stick available but was happy to have the undivided attention of one of us at all times. When I was a kid my parents had a book about Frank Lloyd Wright houses and I used to look at that book everyday and Falling Water was my favorite and so getting to finally see it in person was a wonderful experience for me. The setting is so spectacular and the house was so far ahead of its time. Wright was such an innovator and put such depth of thought into every detail.
We left Fallingwater around 5pm with no exact plan (non-planning is not something I handle well-I generally have bathroom breaks scheduled) and decided just to drive near Pittsburgh and spend the night. We found a Hampton Inn that took dogs and had rooms available. It's in Monroeville just outside of Pittsburgh. Our plan was to go to Ann Arbor Michigan tomorrow but when we started searching we realized it's graduation at the University of Michigan and President Obama is the speaker. All the hotels are either booked or have jacked their prices into the stratospheric level. We've decided to stay here another night and go see a couple of museums or sights in the Pittsburgh area and then go to Ann Arbor on Sunday.
We had dinner tonight at a local Italian place I found on Chowhound.com.
We're looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow since we don't have to travel--sleeping in will probably mean we don't get up until 6:30am but at least we won't feel pressured.