Pennsylvania, according to a Tica

I was chatting on Skype (great program for overseas communication…) today.  My Tica mamá asked if I was talking to one of my amigos here in Costa Rica, and I said no, this friend was from Minnesota but lives in Pennsylvania now.

This is where it got interesting.  She said, oh! that’s where the monster family lived.

I was at first perplexed.  Then, it dawned on me that she might be talking about the Addams Family, since at first I thought she was talking about a movie, but she said no, it’s a TV series.  She described the mother of the family, and also said the house was very mysterious.  So far, so good.  I asked if it was old; yep.

So I found a picture via Google Images–

–and she said, yep, that’s the one!  She used to love that show (and watched it all the time) when she was a girl.

Anyways.  All this to say, this is what she thinks of when she hears of Pennsylvania.  Kinda like I think of Dracula when I hear about Romania, or used to think of butterflies when I heard of Costa Rica.  It’s kinda funny what things get arbitrarily used as mental images of places!