Sorry for the lack of posts, we've been hanging out in New Haven, CT
for a bit so we'll catch you up right now. On Thursday we woke up and
headed down the coast, only stopping at the Rachel Carson National
Wildlife Preserve to look around before being shooed away by rain.
We arrived in New Haven around 2 and decided to get some food and beer. After searching
www.beeradvocate.com for a place to go we found
Delaney's Taproom. They had a terrific tap list - which actually included Dogfish Head 120 IPA (
click here for details)
which was 12 dollars for 12 oz - needless to say we didn't get that one
but we did get the 90 minute IPA and an Otter Creek Black IPA, both
were delicious. After finishing up there we headed over
to our friend Devin's place to hang out for the night.
Devin lives in a
communal house which houses 12 people who are all awesome and were very
gracious to us. Each one had there own little thing going on, but there
was a really great sense of community there which is good to have in a
communal living situation. We ended up having dinner with them and
chatting about various random observations before people went off to other events or retired for the night. Devin, Jena, and I decided to
call our Mango friends, Jax and Caye, to chat about life, friendship,
and other oddities. (to
Mangolandia - It was great to talk to you guys, can't wait to meet up) After chatting we decided to go to bed or in my case pass out.
We awoke, groggily, on Friday and moved slowly around before getting our game together. Once moving we decided to ride our bikes up to the top of what is called East Rock in New Haven, a 366 foot rock ridge which overlooks New Haven all the way out to the Long Island Sound. It was a wonderful ride up with the park road closed to traffic. Beautiful views awaited us at the top and a fun downhill took us back into town just in time to get Devin to his meeting. With Dev gone we took to reading and working on some art shenanigans.
When Devin returned we decided to go to Pepe's Pizza (Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana) which is a small little pizza place which opened in 1925 and cooks all their pies in a traditional brick oven. Their oven was huge, 14 by 14 feet, and coal fired, very cool to see. We ended up getting the plain pizza with garlic for a little extra flavor and a liter of the Birch beer, a peppermint-esque fizzy drink. The pizza and Birch beer were amazing and thanks again goes to Ruby, our Minneapolis friend from Connecticut who keeps telling us about the best New England places to visit.
After such a wonderful meal we wondered what could top it and what did came in the form of the Yale Forestry School's Talent show. There was a ton of acts including an A capella group titled the Logarhythms, a traditional Indian dance Bhangra, some salsa dancing, a K-pop dance act, poetry, comedy, and a bluegrass band finished off the night. Oh, and there was lots of free beer... thank goodness for private schools and their wet-campus ideologies. Afterwards we returned to Devin's house to get some rest.
