Ikea Walk

Another group of pictures we recently found, this adventure was in early February...

In an effort to prepare for the Toy Fair, we had the crazy idea of "walking around all day" for a day, to avoid last year's exhaustion. Walking is different than exercise bike, so despite how used to biking we were, it caught us off guard last year when we got so tired-out. The crazy thought of training for a day-of-walking isn't too crazy, right? The Ikea store is next to the big Jersey Gardens Mall, so that's a good amount of walking to be done. And we might as well grab some pictures to share.

Is is fun to put an quote from an internet "influencer" on this blog? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Gabriela Perez, but it's okay she probably has no idea who Minty is either. And to be honest, I don't really think I count as an "influencer".... yet?

Squirrel Picnic!

Everybody heard of a "DIY" project? That stands for Do It Yourself. My friend got a Birthday gift that needed some extra crafting. But that's considered part of the gift, because we all know how cool it is to work on something yourself.

The gift arrived in two different boxes. We were told to wait until both boxes arrived before we opened them. There was an agonizing 6-day delay between the first box's arrival and the second. We waited to open the boxes, but Amazon does this cool thing where they wrap the thing inside the box in a gift bag anyway. Seems much more like a present. Yay Amazon!

Dark Magic

What's this? I found a bunch of pictures we never got around to posting! Looks like we took these pictures in mid-February, so that was before the Pandemic Lockdown Frenzy, and right before the Toy Fair. It's just a bunch of random pictures so it's cool if I took them a while ago, they should still provide some entertainment.

Every TV show, book, and movie tells me that Dark Magic is bad, Dark Magic comes with a price, Dark Magic darkens your heart,... you get the idea. Well, if you want that feeling, there's some coffee for you!

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Every day is a new adventure? I don't really feel bored even though I just stay home every day. The bike riding is on hold right now, the rear tire went flat and wouldn't you know, Apocalypse Hoarding includes replacement bicycle tire tubes? They are not easy to find right now. There's still random shopping trips and other pictures to share.

So we just beat the newest Shantae game for the Nintendo Switch, subtitled The Seven Sirens. How awesome is this completion time? There's now way we planned on this and what are the odds? We didn't rush through or anything, if you were wondering. And the best win screen expects you to have taken... less than four hours.

Secure Destruction

Back with more random adventure pictures. Covid-19 era adventures include plain old shopping trips and bike rides.

We got a big thrill out of the text on the side of this truck. The Michael Bay Transformer movies are usually big messes, but they include clever uses of things like this text, and we were convinced this truck was going to change into a Decepticon robot and star destroying stuff.

Hanging Out With The Child

It's "The Child" from the Disney+ series The Mandalorian! Or, more commonly known as, Baby Yoda! We found him hanging out at the Target store and just had to bring him home to protect him. And, in a rare Minty blog post, I'm not in most of these pictures, it's like a mini celebrity guest post!

Just walking around Target with this precious little guy in the basket was awesome enough. He looks fully sized and fully detailed and fully accurate to the show and... fully adorable!