Blizzard 09

Dan and I are stuck in Millersville, PA, riding out Blizzard '09 or Megastorm or whatever else the news outlets are calling it. Personally, I'm calling it Polargebiet. Which means "polar zone" in German.

We left Iowa Thursday night after Dan finishing teaching and drove to Englewood, Ohio, where we introduced Karaoke to Best Western. He loved Best Western. He kicked up his litter on the carpet and pawed it around like he was making Fresh Step castles.

Then Friday morning we roadtripped to Pittsburgh (another 5 hours) to spend quality time with our friend Anjali. She's graciously cat sitting for us. In Pittsburgh, we ate Chinese food at a restaurant that considers "diced beef and "fat intestine fish" vegetarian:


We almost went to Pittsburgh stripper karaoke (Bareaoke) but in the end, opted for a showcase of silent short films where two live bands took turns improvising a soundtrack. Also, "testicles hung from the ceiling" (Dan's words).


Sometimes I don't "get" art. After we'd already clocked 10 hours of Interstate driving, we were treated to a short film about... looking out a car window.





Dan and I made our own short this morning en route through Polargebiet! to Millersville (another 6 hours) to eat lunch with his grandparents, who are pushing ninety.





At lunch, we chowed down on homemade fruit salad, spinach soup, open-faced roast beef sandwiches, cocktail shrimp, and walnuts (in that order). I'm pretty obsessed with his grandparents. They're fun and feisty and full of WWII stories. Dan's grandmother is bad ass. She took a fall a few months ago and was like "Well, I just pulled myself out from under the car and crawled across the gutter and went inside and washed my coat. I was lucky. The stains came out." Here she talks about wiring the control panel of fighter planes:




Now we're snowed in at the Heritage Hotel. Weather permitting, we drive to VA Beach tomorrow. Hope everyone is safe and warm in their Snuggies!