It’s feast or famine here at the RealFake Blog lately, either making a record seven posts in a day, or going seven days without a post.

This past weekend, we made a quick trek to State College. It was nice to get away, though with such weekend treks, the driving-to-visiting-with-Terri’s-folks ratio is rather low.

On the way down, we stopped for dinner at the Alexis Diner on I-84 in Newburgh, NY. We’ve stopped at the I-84 Diner before, but have been disappointed. The Alexis Diner, however, is kind of amazing. The menu is about 15 pages long, with fantastically byzantine accompaniment and substitution rules (e.g. the fish cakes and macaroni and cheese dinner comes with soup and a salad; the eggplant parmesan dinner comes with just a salad). Also, it has extremely clean bathrooms, which is always key on the car trips.

Despite Terri’s dad being under the weather, we had dinner at Mad Mex on Saturday night. I dimly knew there was one in Pittsburgh, but when we went to the State College one, I distinctly remembered actually going to the Pittsburgh one. It was also in the same building as Maureen’s wedding reception several years ago, so that was another trip down memory lane.

Sunday morning, we found that the Easter Bunny had paid a visit.

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