For lack of anything else to do in Norwalk, Conn., Schreiber and I went to Norwalk's top tourist attraction (according to tripadvisor.com): Stew Leonard's dairy store. Apparently once featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not, it is the country's biggest dairy store. I'm not quite sure what that means, but it was a shopping trip to be remembered.   We kind of scoffed when a search of things to do in Norwalk brought this up, but shit, we had to go grocery shopping anyway, so we figured we may as well do it some place interesting. Honestly though, interesting doesn't really do it justice. If the folks who run Chuck E. Cheese built a grocery store, it would be Stew Leonard's. Intense is the only way to describe it.   The path through Stew Leonard's reminds me of IKEA, winding purposefully from department-to-department. It was kind of nice to avoid the awkward hokey-pokey you do with your cart when you nearly run into a distracted mother at the end of each aisle. Everybody was walking in the same direction and if they needed something, they'd just pull over to the side and grab it.   The controlled traffic flow also ensures that you get to see ...

Thursday — I picked the rental car up at LaGuardia to start the day. Nicely done Hertz, a spacious, fuel-efficient Mazda Tribute. The car is great, and just in case we forget what kind of car it is, each time we turn it on Mazda Tribute flashes across the radio display. We'd planned on driving up through New York and Connecticut to Washington Depot, which it seems was the Gilmore Girls' producer's inspiration for the show's setting — Stars Hollow. The trip started uneventfully enough, with us heading up the highway into Connecticut and stopping off for lunch at Friendly's — Kristin's idea, of course. Whatever, it was the only thing off of that exit, and plus you were STARVING, as usual. — Kristin Anyway, the service sucked, like, fucking bad. I'm usually pretty tolerant, but this waiter was fucking horrible. It seems Friendly's "thing" is ice cream, and many meals come with a free sundae called a Happy Ending. Seriously, don't they know what that means? You'd think they'd change it. Kristin ate most of it, the few bites I had were delicious. Few bites? Ha!So after a long lunch with a happy ending, it was time to head to Stars Hollow ...