More Halloween Stuff 2021

 Happy Halloween! One more bunch of pictures we took of fun scary-whatever stuff.

It was odd that this banner inside the store seemed to be larger than the one hanging outside. Maybe they were having trouble fitting it outside and well, they bought it, so might as well hang it inside the store instead!

Halloween Spirit 2021

It's that time of year again! There's always fun stuff to check out in the "pop-up" Spirit Halloween store. It's here for a few months, so check it while you can.

It's also fun to see where these stores wind up. Any giant recently-vacant place will do. Sometimes they are in the same empty place as last year, but often they move around. This used to be an A.C. Moore arts store, I think.

Another Brick Store

 Not really a full adventure, but this bunch of pictures is mostly from this new Lego store that opened up in the mall near us. I didn't take enough pictures in there, so there's also a few random ones at the end.

This place is called K&B Brick Store and is a close copy of the other place, Andy's Brick Shop, in the Oxford Valley Mall which is not too far away. Quaker Bridge Mall is much closer to us, so it's a all good! The basic concept here is like a 2nd-hand store, but exclusively for Lego stuff.

Marvelously Random

 Whew! That was a lot of vacation pictures! During the time I was posting up those pictures, I was still taking "regular" pictures while out. So have a nice regular batch of fun things we caught.

Busted! Again! Clearly the name used on this box from a new Avengers: Endgame Lego set says "Scarlet Witch" which is a name they had not yet used in the "universe". At this point she is just Wanda Maximoff. Which is an odd continuity flub for a Marvel product, considering what a big deal it was in the Wandavision series. For example, if that really was "Scarlet Witch" instead of simply Wanda, Thanos would not have stood a chance.

OBX21 Sunrise

One final small amount of pictures from our vacation last summer in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

It's very unusual for my friend to wake up before the sunrise, but how else are you going to... see a sunrise? We're up this early, of course we're going to get some pictures to share.

OBX21 Stuff

 This bunch of pictures from our OBX vacation is a little random. Sometimes when I'm sorting pictures they kind of group together nicely, and sometimes you wind up with stuff like this.

Awkward? This vacation was at the end of August, and I still have pictures to post. I've taken this picture before. It's at the Border Station rest stop and this line is supposed to be where Virginia and North Caroline meet. Does it really matter which state you are in, since it's ALL "America!"?

OBX21 More Thrifty

 There was too many pictures taken on our thrift shop tour in the Outer Banks, so have some more fun pictures of crazy stuff. I'm almost done with the vacation photos, but there's still a couple batches left.

Place a coin in the hand and the lever in the back flips it into the mouth. Is there something oddly poetic about Uncle Sam eating your money? How about the robot? These are banks, so you can get the money back later. You don't even have to imagine where it came from after getting eaten... ewww!

OBX21 - Thrifty 1

 Still have vacation pictures from like, a month ago! There are many thrift shops along the Outer Banks, which is cool since I like searching for treasures, so let's see if we can find some pirate booty around here.

This was a new place my friend spotted. We visited here right after we got done fishing on the boat. We had planned on going thrift shop hopping the next day but got an early jump on it here.

OBX21 Fishing

 Still posting pictures from our vacation to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This bunch of pictures is from a particular highlight of the week, when we rented a boat and... went fishing!

It's odd that waking up early on vacation brings up feelings of excitement rather than sleepyness. We planned on renting the boat for 4 hours, like... all morning. There's a small bait shop up there, too. But I totally forgot to snap a couple of pictures in there.