On The Road With IPB: Epilogue

To quote the great American opera Pioneer Songs, “They made it. They all made it.” That’s right, Gentle Reader, we’re ensconced again on the sofa at stately IPB Manor, loads of laundry churning away downstairs, our cats staring at us like we’re strangers, and the joys of the open road fading away in the sands of time and memory. We won’t lie — it’s nice to not be in the car anymore. And to commemorate what we agree was probably our best vacation ever, we’re going to give you now an overview of our Road Trip, by the numbers.

1343.2 Miles driven, only 200 of which were driven by Schnookie. Pookie is a beast! (It’s probably fair to say Katebits actually drove us further than Schnookie did. Schnookie? Does not like to drive.)

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On The Road With IPB: Chapter Seven

Today marked the last full day of our epic journey, as we’ll be packing up and returning to real life on Sunday, leaving behind good friends, great hockey and, well, Chef’s. OK, we can’t really get away from Chef’s fast enough now that we think about it. We decided to live it up this afternoon, ensconcing ourselves in the hotel room chowing on chocolaty snack food, engaging in a deep and far-reaching discussion about NY metro area sports fans and playing round after round of Lumines II on our PSPs. So, if you took away the chocolaty snacks and the intelligent conversation, we were doing pretty much exactly the same thing the Devils were before tonight’s game against the Isles (which we will never speak of again). Katebits, our personal chauffeur for the week, saved us from ourselves and took us out for a delightful lunch at Betty’s in downtown Buffalo. The warm brie with hot pepper jelly appetizer briefly had us worried we were going to be facing down the barrel of another Chef’s situation when it arrived at our table accompanied by a handful of Town House crackers, just like our grandmothers used to serve us when we were kids. Fortunately the worry was all for naught as the food was quite tasty.

After lunch we all trucked back to Casa Katebits where we marveled over seeing the stained glass buffalo and pencil props from TWC, as well as the goggles made famous by Oh For Fun. It was like being in a Katebits Blogging Museum; she really should have a Plexiglas box by her front door with a sign reading “Suggested Donation: $20”. We proceeded to do what we all do best – talk about blogging. For hours. The only reason we didn’t talk about blogging all night was that Katebits had a concert to play. Since Schnookie had expressed doubt that she actually plays viola – none of us actually believe we all do what we say we do, right? This is the internet, after all – Katebits offered us the once in a lifetime opportunity to see the BPO in action.

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