#anyway it’s chunkin time

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IT’S TIME FOR MY FAVORITE YEARLY TRADITION 🦅🦅🦅💥💥💥REPLAYING SUPER PAPER MARIO!! I LOVE THIS GAME SM AUUGHHHH

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Today was an eventful day! Jeremy and I went to the fall festival at a farm surprisingly close to us, and Motthew came along. It was very bright and sunny, and maybe a little warmer than I'd have liked, but we had a really good time! More photos under the cut c:

We got to pet and feed some really cute farm animals, including the most polite alpaca?? The white one absolutely spit at somebody but the brown one was really sweet! The cow was very vocal today, but she did stop by the gate for pats and snacks!

We also had a great time on the hayride! It was one of my favorite parts. We did punkin chunkin, and hit not a single target but it was fun anyway! There was a giant slide on a hill where you went down on this heavy duty innertube thing, I started spinning towards the end and then my innertube just stopped before the end of the slide lmao. I was not about to try and scoot to the end so I just got up and dragged the tube off the lane 💀 The spin was the best part 😆

We also painted pumpkins! Jeremy painted Turbo-Granny from DanDaDan, and I painted the Fresno Nightcrawler and some ghosts on mine! (Ghosts not pictured, they're on the back side lol)

I of course brought home some new lil guys. The cow is from the Build-a-Buddy barn, and the moth is from the market!

It was a really great day 🩷

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State #11: “Hi, I’m in Delaware”

Happy New Year from the Interview Trail!

Okay, full disclosure- I don’t have much to say about the state of Delaware. With all due apologies to my friend, Delaware native, and Marathon expert Pete McBride, the only thing that I think about when I think of Delaware is this following short Wayne’s World clip, which you should watch right now:

With that being said, I did have the opportunity to briefly visit Delaware last month, where I was impressed by the residency program contained within this small, overlooked state. So in honor of the first state to ratify the US Constitution:

1. The Run:

Before hightailing it back up 95 and through NYC rush-hour traffic, I was able to enjoy a short run through the Brandywine Creek State Park near Wilmington, an area of 933 acres that contains the first two nature preserves in Delaware. While the park contains plenty of nice, flat running trails, I somehow found myself navigating an increasingly complicated path of hiking trails that soon led me deep into the woods, a little muddy and a little lost. Thankfully, I eventually stumbled back onto one of the main running paths, and back to my car with no damage done. Thanks anyway, Delaware!

2. The Beer:

Like I mentioned, I didn’t really have the opportunity to spend much time in Delaware, but while I was there I did enjoy one of the finest beer in the country, Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute IPA. Dogfish is hands-down one of my favorite breweries, with my personal favorites being their Indian Brown Dark IPA and their Raison D’Etre (which, yes- is in fact brewed with raisins. Give it a chance!). A couple years ago I had the pleasure of visiting their Brewpub on Rehoboth Beach- do yourself a favor and end a day at the beach with their tasty bites and strange experimental brews that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. 

3. The Funnest of Delaware Facts:

Okay. I realize that it’s enjoyable to poke fun at Delaware for being relatively small and unremarkable, but as a native from another small and unremarkable state (See State #10), I did want to find a couple unique facts about Delaware. Here are a few that I found at whatever motovo.com is, that I did not bother to verify, and that I have no idea whether are true or false. Regardless, enjoy!

- The world’s largest Lego Tower was built in Wilmington, standing 112 feet tall and made up of 500,000 bricks!

- Delaware is home of the “Punkin Chunkin” Championship, a sport where competitors build contraptions to hurl pumpkins as far as possible. The standing record is over a mile at 5,545 feet. USA! USA! USA!

- There is a disc golf course in every Delaware State Park (again, I have ZERO idea if this is actually true), BUT

- Until 2013, Delaware was the ONLY state not to have a National Park. 

- Although Delaware is 49th in state size and 45th in state population, it has the highest percentage of PhDs! 

[Joe knew all of those facts]

And that’s it! Thanks Delaware for a brief, enjoyable visit, and thanks VP Biden for just being so damn classy. Happy January everyone!

Onward and Upward,

galen.