So when I posted about the day before yesterday on Facebook, I linked back to an older post from CW advertising I believe the 200th episode of Supernatural, with their photoshoot of Jensen as Dean, dressed in a crushed velvet suit jacket, etc., beside a neon sign that reads “Eat Pie, Kill Demons.” Neon art of a piece of pie, too. We’ll see if this site lets me link that post. It is public.
Before we hit the road that day, we also got me an oil change, and picked up some fancy chocolate chip cookies to gift, and got kiddo Starbucks. Did I mention the day she had worn my anti-suicide hoodie, and they coincidentally wrote “You Matter” on her cup and just “Thank you” on the rest of them? So weird!
Here’s what I posted on Facebook, first. Then, I’ll add some bonus details.
Kiddo and I drove to New London today to visit her other grandmother. Along the way, I said it felt like we were in an episode of Supernatural, on a road trip. We’ve been streaming it before bed.
She said, “Yeah? Like there will be a job in New London?” I asked her what kind of job it would be. “Evil leprechauns, leftover from their New Dublin St. Patrick’s Day thing.”
So, we watched the leprechaun/fairy/UFO episode tonight. Which was really funny, because it turns out the gif I recently posted to tumblr with my fey creature fairy lamp story I entered in the contest, came from that episode.
THEN we watched A Wisconsin Christmas Pie, which I happened to think of while we were surfing streaming services. Filmed in Door County. But weirdly, they seldom explained what part of Door County they were in and made it seem like all the towns were within 5-10 minutes of each other when really there’s sorta a lot of nowhere and farm country in between.
We had a lot of fun laughing at the cheese factor.
And there was, indeed, cheese. A great reference or two to Renard’s.
THEN, we watched the first episode of Chad Powers, and each ate a football-shaped, decorated sugar cookie, from the fall cookies I bought *at* Renard’s.
Eat pie. Kill demons. Merry Crustmas. Go Fish!
We had lunch at an establishment actually called the New London Family Diner. I had a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich and fries. They gave Cheesesteak Rebellion a run for their money, lemme tell you what!
And it seemed like kiddo’s grandma was delighted to receive some Uncle Mike’s New York Times cookies. Best chocolate chip cookies in the state of Wisconsin! We had a nice visit at her grandmother’s house, before heading to the diner. She asked both of us some questions about work and what we’d been up to lately, etc.
I had also thought what little we would see of downtown New London along the way to her house on past visits looked so cute. Maybe we could ask her grandma about a good place to shop for gifties and souvenirs, in town. It sounded fun to look elsewhere, not just in Door County, and Green Bay. But the store that would have likely had the best stuff up in Fish Creek was already closed by the time we arrived on Sunday.
She did get some cute stuff at the winery along the way, though.
The New London gift shop I think was called Gifts Everlasting. SO cute. Kiddo said she wanted to leave them a great review just for the quality of their bathroom (it was a pretty impressive set-up: flossers, lotions, feminine hygiene products, paper towels as well as clean hand towels, etc.).
I *nearly* bought a gemstone bracelet; by the time I’d resolved to get it, and had headed back to that part of the store, someone else was looking them over. I waited patiently, but they selected the very same one I’d had my eye on.
But I did already have a new bracelet from Earthbound at the mall here, and a set of two from a thrift store in Fish Creek.
I DID get a Blind Date with a Book (romance genre), some stickers, and a Halloween dish towel which will stay in the kitchen year round.
She got a Goosebumps sticker too because she used to love that show. We may have read some of the books, too.
Kiddo also selected some goat milk soap to go along with her goat-themed gifts for her boss, and a beaded bracelet for her boyfriend, etc. The goat milk soap there was cheaper than at the apothecary, even if the apothecary soap was labelled with photos of the goats and their names, which was awfully cute. New London’s soap looked, in my opinion, a little cooler, apart from maybe the label thing.
I donated a few bars of Dr. Squatch soap I had gotten previously, for kiddo to give to her boyfriend. And we found a sasquatch sticker or at least a sticker that had a sasquatch on it, along with other things. So she got him that, too.
THEN, we headed home.
We stopped at my parents’ house briefly, then back to my place, where we watched Supernatural and A Wisconsin Christmas Pie, and the first episode of Chad Powers.
Turns out the cherry cheddar cheese made famous by that Christmas movie is a real thing at Renard’s, so now, we’ll have to try it, eventually. They made it seem downright magical.
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All the Bright and Sparkly Things 
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