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The Spurgh (Part III)

May 4, 2009 11:29 PM

rankly, after Friday and Saturday, I was pretty fucking tired. So I was happy to have a pretty relaxing Sunday morning. And it actually ended up being one of my favorite parts of the whole trip.

Chelsadilla had been telling me for a long time about how she had driven a Miata in college and how that Miata had ended up in the Spurgh with her brother. Well, sure enough, there it was: a red convertible Miata. Now, I had appropriately made fun of chelsadilla for holding the Miata in such high regards, especially after the incident in law school when I saw a goofy classmate driving a white Miata with the top down while wearing a teal polo shirt and a bright red beret.

Anyway, I was somewhat excited to drive the Miata, so chelsadilla and I put the top down and drove around the hilly countryside of Western Pennsylvania. It was fucking awesome. We drove around to a bunch of the different little towns that are right around Pittsburgh. It's strange. All of these places are about fifteen minutes from downtown, but they feel like small, rural, quaint little towns. Very charming. Or at least that's the feeling I get--it's hard to tell since most of it whizzed by at fifty miles an hour.

We went and visited chelsadilla's childhood home in a town called something like Rivendell. Pretty cool.

Eventually, we went back to chelsadilla's brother's place, hung out for a bit, and then headed out to Sarris Candies, which claims to have the world's best chocolate. I don't know if that's true, but their chocolate is damned good. Their store is also, um, unique. Chelsadilla's sister-in-law explained that when they decorate it for Christmas, it looks like Santa Claus threw up in the place. I thought this was a strange thing to say because I couldn't imagine a place looking more like Santa Claus threw up in it than this place already did. But the hot-fudge sundae was spectacular, so I didn't mind the gaudy decor too much.

Eventually, chelsadilla's parents came over and the sister-in-law made another amazing dinner consisting of marinated chicken thighs and breasts along with some other stuff. It was good.

But, yeah, driving the Miata was my favorite part of the trip.



1 Comments


chelsadilla said:

RENNERDALE. also, you forgot the roadside meat.

May 5, 2009 12:07 PM



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