Nacogdoches is like...

My blog friend Stephanie has a habit of comparing her town to Stars Hollow, the small town in Gilmore Girls. If you've never seen Gilmore Girls, we probably aren't friends.

I'm so so so jealous that she thought of this before me. That Stephanie! Geez.

But tonight, we took Charlie to an event called "Small Town Bites!" – an outdoor movie on the downtown square with dinner served by a local restaurant.  Yes, I believe the exclamation mark is actually a part of the title; no, I'm not sure the pun was intended.

There was a handful of people sitting in pop chairs and on picnic blankets, kids running around, playing catch in the street, a few firemen standing outside the downtown fire station, leaning against the brick building like they just stepped out of a Norman Rockwell painting.

Charlie wandered over toward the fire station and one of guys walked over and gave him (and Preston - because the reality here is that I played with Charlie while Preston ate, and vice versa) a tour of the station, let him sit in a fire truck and gave him a toy fire fighter hat that says "Junior Firefighter."

All of this while the sun was setting and 'Back to the Future' was playing on the screen, just a tad to loud.

When we got home, Preston said, "I felt like I was in an episode of Ed."

Ed! Ed is the boy version of Gilmore Girls. If you haven't heard of Ed, we can still be friends because it wasn't nearly as popular and you can't get it on DVD or Apple TV because of licensing issues with the intro music. You can, however, watch snippets of it on YouTube OR borrow one of the DVDs we made back when the reruns played on TLC and we TIVOed them all with our TIVO.

The premise of the show is that Ed (Tom Cavanagh), a big time lawyer, is fired, his wife cheats on him with a mailman, he moves back to his home town, buys a bowling alley, becomes a small town lawyer and tries to win the love of his high school crush, Carol Vessy (Julie Bowen). He has wacky employees, hilarious friends, clients with nit picky problems and small town everything is everywhere.

So, if I can't compare Nacogdoches to Stars Hollow from Gilmore Girls originally because Stephanie thought of it first GEEZ – I'll just have to compare it to Stuckeyville from Ed.

In another post later though, because this one is already too long.