Elephants Trunk Flea Market

A HATES Halloween. He's not scared or anything, he just thinks it's a horrible, macabre holiday. So we went to the flea market this morning to celebrate before he works tonight while I hand out play-doh. I wore bat earrings, best costume ever. The thing about the Elephant's Trunk flea market is that it's about an hour and 15 minutes away on Sunday morning, and if you go to flea markets, you know you have to get there way early. We usually leave at 7 even though that's when it opens because we're not hardcore. And A does NOT like to get up early, but I don't make him go. In fact, I'd like to go by myself one day so I don't feel bad about him being bored except there's a doughnut truck there that has amazing doughnuts, so he's always wants to tag along! There's also a funnel cake truck, but since I started eating better, I couldn't eat them in good conscience. Anyway, I had a specific purpose for going this morning, which I'll write about in another post. But I took a lot of pictures while we were there, so this is mainly a picture post with some commentary thrown in.

Still so early...


First stop:


This was weirdly tempting. A said no way:


Before the sun fully rose. Still kinda dark.






Coolest lamps ever.


I bought the medium format Argus! Excited to see if it works or if it's just shelf decoration.


These may or may not have been part of my mission:


For real! You always see the "I Like Ike" buttons in history textbooks but I saw a real one!


Glove forms?




It really is such a great flea market. So much completely random stuff and if you haggle, you can get the prices down to a reasonable level. I've bought alot of stuff here even though we've only been twice. I'll show three things in the next post...

Caseus Cheese Truck!

New Haven as a city is famous for four things at the moment: crime, the Petit murder trial, Yale and food trucks. We have anywhere from 12-20 food trucks around the city at any given time, maybe more- I've never actually counted since they're spread literally city-wide, from the Wharf (where construction workers are working on the highway) all the way to the Yale Medical Center. And they're all delicious! When I was younger, I thought street food was the most appalling, disgusting, low brow, horrible food available. For the record, I also didn't like sweet potatoes, sushi, or Indian food. Bad decisions on all accounts. Enter the Caseus Cheese Truck.

Caseus is a cheese shop and restaurant here in town that decided diversity was key and opened their own food truck. A grilled cheese and tomato soup truck. Couldn't get any better than that and A and I desperately wanted to go! But every time we tried, it rained. Seriously, every time. And nothing says "Cranky KMSull" more than trekking in the rain. Yesterday, however, it didn't rain, and A didn't have class since it's “reading week”- a.k.a. “we get to do fun stuff during the day and A reads a 500 page book and writes a paper on it at night” week! We went hiking today, more on that tomorrow. They post on twitter where they are for the day; it's usually very close or on Yale's campus. I recommend following them just to read the daily specials.

Pictures are from a point and shoot, for the record. Not the prettiest.

We found it!







The menu:



A got plain grilled cheese...



...And tomato soup.



Charming handmade signs:





My guacamole/bacon/cheese masterpiece:



They have a different special every day:



So how was it?



Seriously, though. It was delicious. The bread was sourdough (which I've been trying to make myself), crispy, buttery, not greasy. The tomato soup was made with real tomatoes, tangy, a little spicy, and just felt good to eat. For a food truck? 5/5! It's great comfort food and while not as elaborate as some of the ethnic trucks around (Thai, Malaysian), it's fantastic autumn food that I will definintely seek out again. When I'm in that part of downtown to go to library, cause I avoid that area as much as possible.