Thanks for the Pictures

 A few pictures from our Thanksgiving "vacation" trip.

We reached the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel when the sun was going down, so we hopped out real quick at the photo-op spot. I thought you had to go all the way down to Florida to get a "sunset over the ocean" view, but this kinda works, too!

We did stop for gas before the bridge. It's just coincidence that right about the time we thought about it, we pulled over at the "Giant Cock" gas station. A little further down the road, another company also has a big chicken statue above their sign. So it was funny for us that another local place put up another one, it's not the same one that's been moved, if you were wondering.

Of course we like to check out the local giant comic shop, Trilogy. I could probably take a ton of pictures in here of various pop culture stuff, but I guess I just got this one figure of Berserker-class "Summer" Miyamoto Musashi from the game Fate: Grand Order. She's an awesome character and this is an awesome figure, but... $170? Yikes! The pricetag is using a Noble Phantasm on your wallet!

It's Pascal from Animal Crossing. He's like, the totally chill otter that bums scallops off of you in exchange for deep thoughts. Feel this: Do roosters go back to sleep after they wake everybody up? I mean, they're pretty much done for the day.

The other shop had a different Summer Musashi figure in a lower-level outfit, for a much more reasonable price. Oddly enough, for gameplay purposes, she hits just as hard with those pool foam swords as she does with the giant sword from the other figure's outfit.

It's something cool to notice how easily the characters from WWE "fit" into the Masters of the Universe realm. I say "characters" like they are not real people, but they are still like... characters in their own show. 

Saw some Family Guy plushies in the claw machine at a Walmart. Um... giggidy? Is he smelling her hair?

You can feel like a detective and deduce the time around when this doormat was made. Remember when we all ran out of toilet paper? How many people have a "stockpile" just-in-case now?

My friend had a game for his Nintendo Switch called Jackbox which somehow connects to the internet, and... everybody's phone. No "download a phone app" required, simply go to a web site and enter this code, and magically it connects back the the Nintendo Switch. We played a game called Fibbage 2 where you have to type in answers to a random question. Trying to get the other players to pick your answer, and also guess the actual answer among everybody elses'. 

On the way out to go bowling, and stuck in bumper-to-bumper dead-stopped traffic. We glance over at this Two Guys Wildlife Removal truck, and laugh because there's only one guy in the truck. What happened to the other guy?

Only apply if you are a Mc Awesome person. Is that discrimination? What if I'm not Mc Awesome? Maybe I'm just Regular Awesome.

While stuck in traffic, we called our friends to tell them of our predicament. They checked the traffic cams on the highway and let us know the accident cleared and we should be moving shortly. While checking the traffic cams, as we update them on our location, they manage to screen-cap us coming out of the tunnel! Haha! See the blue car there?! That's us!

Bowling! It's been many years since we've been bowling, but our friends bowl regularly, several times each week. Leagues and what-not.

Good old Purple Rhino! I forgot to get a picture of it, but soon after we started bowling, there was a big chip noticed on the surface of the ball. When we went up to the desk to have them check the lane, the guy seemed happily shocked about what a good ball this was and gave us a little history lesson about how it was Brunswick's first reactive-core ball or something. The chipped spot was not in a position to affect the rolling, and after we bowled, our friends kept the ball in Virginia to get it repaired later.

Nothing tempting in the claw machine today. Not only is my one friend a great bowler, but he's also pretty ace at these claw machines, too.

There's the add for the Seniors Social event we are playing in. Even though we don't qualify as "Seniors" for the raffle tickets and other goodies, still, $6 for three games of bowling is pretty good these days.

The scores. We did "all-right" I guess. There was too much of a divide between when we were doing great and terrible. There were a few strikes but also a few gutter balls. My pro-level friend bowled a 192 and then switched to play with his left hand instead. Once he got the hang of it, still managed to bowl a 130 game with it. The craziest part was that even though he was using his left hand, he still had a wicked curve, but like, in the opposite direction!

This is not the league sheet for our friends, but thought I'd get a picture of a typical bowling league sheet so you could see some funny team names like "I Split You Not" and "Jive Turkeys".

Why don't all buildings have giant letters on the outside? It's so much easier to identify where you are.

My friend who had previously not seen any Star Wars movies, finishes up the original trilogy tonight with Return of the Jedi. Once he was the Learner, now he is the Master. I'm not kidding when I tell you that the cat over there, his name is Spock. Look how interested he is in the Star Wars movie haha.

After we paused the movie to go to the Chinese buffet for dinner, we popped into the local ancient comic shop. Saw this game which was too cheap to get a Jurassic Park license, so let's just say "Dinosaur Island" instead. They don't need to be paying Jurassic Park fees.

They got a lot of old cool stuff in this comic shop. My friend's sister says it smells all mildew-y in here though. Maybe a little, but this is an old place.

Some actual canvas art pieces? These characters are from Magic: The Gathering. What a neat idea, and you gotta appreciate that kind of artistic hustle.