Birthday Splurging

It was our favorite somepony's Birthday so we went out to do some fun stuff. Also got some pictures to share!

Here we are driving around Manhattan. Saw this funny sign prohibiting "unnecessary" noise. Just gotta love this city! Our shouting "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" was certainly "necessary!"

So what kind of fun stuff did we do? click on the "Read more" to check it out!

Franklin Institute part 2

More fun pictures from the Franklin Institute science museum!

Stare at this pattern and it seems to move. Weird?! Click on the "Read more" and move onto some more pictures!

Franklin Institute part 1

Ben Franklin was an all-around cool guy who was wise and curious about everything. This is the guy that discovered ELECTRICITY by flying a kite in a storm!

The Franklin Institute science museum was filled with all sorts of neat stuff, we took lots of pictures so I'll break it into a couple of posts.

Click on the "Read more" to discover some fun stuff?

Volcanic Exibit

My friends went to Philadelphia to visit the Franklin Institute science museum and I got to tag along and grab some fun pictures! There was a traveling exhibit from Pompeii which is the first part of out trip through the museum.

For those little ponies who don't know, Pompeii was an ancient Roman city that was quickly covered in heat and ash by a nearby volcano. It was mega tragic but it preserved a ton of artifacts hundreds of years later when they re-found the buried city.

click on the "Read more" to see some real old stuff!

Baseball Out of Season

How can you have fun visiting a baseball stadium during the off-season? Take a tour! Visiting New York's Yankee Stadium was a lot of fun. Check out the pictures of some stuff you might not get to normally see!

There was a large group going on the tour, but the rest of the stadium was vast, empty, and quiet. It was kinda creepy. Were can I buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack?

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Prehistoric Lunch

While on vacation in Florida, we once again ate in the prehistoric restaurant T-Rex located in the Downtown Disney shopping center. This place is too cool I had to get some more pictures!

Here's a dinosaur by a waterfall outside the restaurant. We had found this Donald Duck Space Mountain pin on the ground nearby. There was no pony around so we couldn't locate the owner, so it came home with us.

Click on the "Read more" to see some more pics from the past!

Hot Dawgs Again

Since I posted a few times about this place closing down, I thought it would be fun to post about it's Phoenix-style rise from the ashes. Behind this sign is a CVS store, to the right of this picture is it's parking lot where the old Nathan's Hot Dog store used to be. So technically they tore it down and put up a parking lot.

Not too far away from where it was, the new Nathan's Hot Dog restaurant is a lot smaller with no arcades at all. This sign seems to be pointing the wrong way, but you have to drive completely around this shopping center to get to the drive thru.

Blurry picture inside. We should have taken a few more pictures but it was crowded and we were kinda hungry.

The Hot Dog was just as tasty as ever. We ate in the car watching The Walking Dead episodes on our Nook. Did we make zombie-noises while eating our lunch? Maybe....

Oh, I guess I should also mention a Happy Thanksgiving to everypony tomorrow! Go eat turkey and not hot dogs of course!

Breakfast Vacation

For our vacation we made reservations for breakfast at the Grand Floridian resort at Disney World. This is one of the fancier places to stay, even just for breakfast, so of course we had to take some pictures to try and get more value out of it.

The highlight was the epic Mickey Waffles. Disney magic hits again with what could have been simple waffles, but were somehow oh-my-goodness way more delicious than waffles normally are.

 Here's the lobby where there are ritzy shoppes everywhere.

Random lobby decoration. Is this some kind of old-style hamster cage or something? Take a picture of it anyway?

Some architect or designer somewhere should know that someponies somewhere DO appreciate this kind of detail in the floor tiling.

Pumpkin Surprise

So adorable! Leaving for work this morning and a squirrel was nibbling on our pumpkin friend Big 30. We managed to snap a couple of pictures to share!

A couple of weeks after Halloween and the cold air is preserving Big 30 pretty well. We can thump him, he's nice and solid. His pumpkin pal Little John is not doing so good he's in a melted slump there in front.

Awwwww! We were very careful not to make any sudden movements to scare this cutie away. Judging by the size of Big 30, our Squirrel Buddy should be a neighbor and recurring visitor for a while.

Because it's pumpkin-related, I thought I'd post this picture we took at Stew Leonard's. We thought it was funny they had a sign advocating the photo op. Of course we were going to take a photo with this thing!

Back to The Vacation

Posting up some more pictures from the recent vacation in Florida, here I am at the Universal Studios theme park!

The park is filled with all kinds of movie-themed rides and attractions, here I am standing next to the famous car that had to go Back to the Future! Great Scott! click on the "Read more" to check out some more attractions!

The Walking Minty

Happy Halloween my little ponies! If you recognize where I'm at then you are probably feeling very uneasy right now and scared for what might happen to me! Actually I'm safe at Universal Studios in Florida, where they have placed settings and props from the hit TV show "The Walking Dead" around the park.

 

During the weekends there are "actual" zombies walking around, but we were there on a Monday so we were just thrilled to see the props still around without the zombies. Check out Dale's RV! I'm actually standing on the hood! How cool is this?!

Squeee! It's Daryl's Crossbow! If you've seen the show, you'd be just as excited, I promise!

No spoilers here, in case you haven't seen the show yet, but this is from the 2nd season. It was kind of an important recurring scene. If you HAVE seen the show, then you can probably guess how I'm feeling right now?

Okay I'll end this on a happier note and wish everypony a Happy Halloween! Hope you got a lot of candy and NO zombies!!!

Building Some Halloween Fun

BOO! I mean, um,... hi again! We actually got this giant Lego Haunted House -last- year for Halloween, and took some pictures and all, but delayed posting until it was awkwardly too late to be "Halloween" so we kinda thought we could always post it up next year, so here we go! Seems like it was yesterday? AAHHH that's a scary thought?!

 Look at all these bags full of Lego bricks! I'll be brave and see about putting this house together.

Click on the "Read more" to see how it went.... If you dare! Mwa-ha-ha-ha! um, sorry about the evil laugh...

Great Pumpkin

Hi Everypony! My friends went and picked us some pumpkins at a local farm so it was time to make a new friend! And take pictures of course.

 

Here's the pumpkins they picked. We get to carve up the largest one here on the end, it weighed in at 30 pounds!

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Magical Kingdom!

Disney's Magic Kingdom time! It was Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party night so we were grabbing all the free candy we could along with lots of fun rides and other cool stuff, including pictures of course!

This ride was INTENSE! Haha not really that's what makes this t-shirt so funny.

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Florida Again!

We had friends who were getting married (aww!) in Florida so we managed to get an extended-weekend vacation trip out of it. So sit back and enjoy some trip photos? I'll break up the trip into several posts we saw lots of cool stuff and took many pictures!

West-coast Florida! I just can't stop staring out of airplane windows, it's really cool to see everything from up this high!

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Manhattan Shopping Adventure

In the My Little Pony show they often refer to a big city called Manehattan and I guess I got to walk around there all day doing some shopping! While we didn't actually BUY anything (yay for us?) we did see a bunch of cool stuff and took some pictures.

Exclusive merch from the Disney Store in Times Square. You can't really sell this anywhere else could you? Click on the "Read more"  to see some more fun stuff!

MORE Bikeride Pictures

The days are getting shorter and soon we will not be able to go bike ridin' in the afternoons after work, so we are trying to enjoy it as much as possible before the cold weather and early afternoons arrive. Here's a collection of things we found IMPRESSIVE in one way or another.

I don't think you can see them in this picture, but the sun beaming through the trees highlighted about A MILLION of tiny gnats flying right in the path. We kinda squinted and sped through but it seemed crazy at the time.

Click on the "Read more" for a few more interesting sights?

OBX! part 2

Here's the second batch of pictures from our trip to the Outer Banks North Carolina!

Now this is what you come down here for... BEACH! Except for the two days we were there, they were flying red flags which meant dangerous rip currents and it was not safe to go into the water. Still fun to walk along the sand I guess.

Click on the "Read more" for the rest of the vacation!

OBX! part 1

OBX is short for "Outer Banks" which is the um, island-sandbar thing on the North Carolina shore. I was able to go on a weekend vacation so of course we took some pictures! We took a bunch of pictures so I'm going to break this into a couple parts so it's not so overwhelming (would it be?)

This is right on the... border... of Virginia and North Carolina. It's a neat rest stop and gift shop for lots of cool touristy stuff for both states. So "stop" here for a minute and then click on the "Read more" to continue the vacation?

Jar Jar Bugs

This happened enough recently to make a post of it, don't get creeped out! Instead of squishing bugs, we try to catch them and put them back outside. It's a lot less messy, and the bugs can't be blamed for being lost, right? Plus I get to make new friends while they pose for pictures with me?

This tiny grasshopper was crawling on the blinds. Good thing we got it, because even when these things are outside, you can hear them pretty loudly at night. Last year there was one in the house and it made it nearly impossible to get any sleep!

Here's a cricket that was jumping around in the bathtub. I wonder if it wanted to take a shower?

This Dragonfly flew right into the car! We were trying to coax it toward the open window with the back of an umbrella, it eventually landed ON the umbrella. So we were able to carefully move it outside.

Picking Flowers

Hi Everypony! While out bike riding we thought it might be fun to "pick" some flowers for our cute girl friend. Um that means taking pictures... which I usually shorten to "pics." So we were "Pic"-ing flowers?

These flowers were a bright fluorescent purple. You can kinda tell in the picture but I think they looked a little brighter than the pic shows. Click on the "Read more" to see some more flowers!

Candy... Bar?

These stairs are a classic New York landmark of sorts, I'm here at Dylan's Candy Bar in Manhattan. Yum!

That's a lot of gumballs!

This is only a statue of a giant chocolate bunny. Not actually chocolate. No I did not try to take a bite out of it... not at all...

You might just think "Candy Bar" is a clever name but there actually is a "Bar" upstairs complete with alcoholic drinks involving various treats like Cotton Candy, Nerds, and Peppermint.

The bar also serves kid-friendly stuff like Ice Cream and this Cookie Monster Donut.

Thou Haveth an Adventure

Huzzah! Trip to the Renaissance Faire! I was happy to be able to tag along and get some pictures!

This Place was way bigger than I thought it would be. Like a whole amusement park filled with cool stuff. Click on the "Read more" to check it out?!

Big Fish That Transform?

We found these treasures in Yonkers and had to take a picture to prove this "I caught a fish THIS BIG" story was real. The price tag below them is what they were selling for, $132... EACH. There will be a lot of ponies out there who will think we were fools NOT to buy all 4 of these ($527.96 +tax!) but we didn't even buy 1 of these. We're not into the whole resell-for-profit game, but we know these are quickly going to be very valuable, so it was fun catching this picture and "throwing the fish back into the water."

First Zoo Visit

We went to "America's 1st Zoo" in Philadelphia, and I made all sorts of new friends!

This bird was LOUD! I wonder why it felt the need to be so loud? Might benefit from some therapy...

 Click on the "Read more" to meet some more of my new friends!

Words up!

The saying is something like "Every picture is worth a thousand words." I know you probably don't want me to ramble on with that much writing so I'll keep my picture's stories quite a bit shorter that 1000 words.

I'm not sure how it is where you are from, but we haven't seen these throw-change-in-'em toll booths in a while. It was fun to hurl money out of the car. The story here is that while taking this picture, the "Paid Thank You!" sign turned back into a "Toll $1.50" sign. Not wanting to risk any sort of ticket, we hurled another $1.50 into the machine. So this picture (and accompanying story) wound up costing us $1.50...

Click on the "Read more" for a few more random pics and stories?

Twinkie Pie

I noticed that I post a lot about various foods. Tasty things generally make little ponies happy, so I guess I enjoy sharing things that I find tasty maybe you find them tasty, too?

So what's the big deal here? In case you missed the news about a year ago, these things were suddenly vanished from the world. But happiness magic of some kind prevailed, and yesterday was the big return of the Twinkie.

Yay just as tasty as I remembered. So if you've never had a Twinkie before, you are in luck because you almost never had the chance to taste it. Maybe a snack is not THAT big a deal, but maybe there's a lesson here about not taking things for granted and enjoying them while you can, because who thought a silly little treat would be missed like this? Okay let's not over-think this and just enjoy a tasty snack?

Summer Bikerides

Hi everypony! We went for a bike ride and got a couple of pictures out of it. Okay I guess there's exercise or something, too...

It doesn't quite look like it from this picture, but this flock of geese (geeses?) was extra big. Almost scary-goose apocalypse-big. They were nice and moved out of the way. (creepily slow...)

We came across this obsticle course thing. Looks kinda like you climb to the top and then across the rope bridges. I hope they put up nets before ponies go up there!

Completely empty football field at a High School. According to the various signage, this mascot is a Northern Knight. We rode a few laps around it.

Here's a fountain near the Library. It was 94º outside and we wanted to jump in! Instead we threw in a penny and made a wish. No, I can't tell you what the wish was, then it won't come true!? That's how it works, right?

Mall Sightings

Out at Garden State Plaza shopping mall and saw a few oddities we HAD to get pictures of to share with all of my little ponies who read this. So for the both of you... enjoy! (haha I hope there are more than a couple ponies who read this!)

Somepony who works at a mall knows what an Ejector Pit is, but we can all imagine something much more fun from a locked door with that label on it. Don't be bad little ponies or else you get put in... The Ejector Pit!

  

This rediculously small escalator was too funny not to get a picture of. Why not just put in a ramp? (I'm in this picture somewhere can you spot me?)

Now this Titanic tea bag holder crosses a line. Kinda inappropriate you think? We didn't take a picture because we thought the Teatanic reference was funny; what's funny is that somepony else THOUGHT this was a good idea. Manatea was much better, and not included in this photo was a dinosuar called Tea Rex.)

Bonus Picture: SUPER MOON! When did this become "a thing?" But that night was the-moon-is closest-to-the-Earth night so we went out and grabbed a picture. The way it's advertised you'd think it would fill the sky but it looked pretty much the same to us...