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The rarely updated blog of Joel Dixon
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Travel Log - Day 17 (A kid in a candy-filled toy store)
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 21/03/2007 20:46:00Updated by Joel Dixon at 15/11/2007 22:39:20
At the start of the 17th day overseas, I was starting to feel a little over travelling. The air travel, poor meals (involving a whole lot of cheese), lack of sleep and general running around was starting to catch up with Bell and I. I was also starting to get a little bit homesick, though this feeling was lessened by the impending show-down between the Mighty Penguins and the lowly Avalanches.
Due to a previous planning issue Day 17 was also a schedule packed with "bumming around". We went into town, and stumbled upon a toy store. It seemed like a proper, old fashioned, not-too-commercial toy store, and was a welcome change from some of the other, more commercialised sights.
The toy store was 3 levels of fun which was quite a feat, as unlike space crazy New York, the toy store had three decent sized levels. The items that interested Bell and I the most was the Christmas decorations.
Being that we were coming close to Christmas at this time, it was understandable that some holiday decorations would be on display. But these weren't just decorations, these were to-scale model representations of various Christmas themes. There were heaps of different varieties, many different ways to enjoy the holiday period with collectibles (here's some examples). The most we would ever see in Australia is a modest nativity scene model, but I must admit we snapped up some pretty cool items.
My parents have something that look just like this, I used to love pulling off the moss
The M&M Christmas themed decorations we bought in Pittsburgh
Where the magic happens (I'll resist my regular pants joke)
This one is just awesome, and note the winter M&M tree in the background
Such great detail - Yellow obviously needs to be persuaded by Red
As Day 17 was another light-on day for content, I'll post some other pictures of M&M toys Bell and I bought.
Red's quite the ladies man...
... but seems equally enthused when his partner is a scared, peanut-filled yellow male. Fair enough I guess
Yellow spins Red right 'round baby (etc)
# Posted in the Travel section and tagged as: Pittsburgh
This is the 18th in the Honeymoon Travel Log series
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