Ikea and stuff

 Silence! Ikea you! There's other pictures here but most of these are from the giant Ikea store.

Putting it together yourself is the whole point of going to Ikea! Imagine buying a Lego set, and paying someone to put it together? Do you want to deny yourself the sense of accomplishment after you did it yourself?

The Usual

 Back with regular old random pictures of fun stuff.

Odd spherical letter things at the art store. They didn't have an "M" so I had to use an upside-down "W". Close enough, right?

Relaxing at Busch Gardens

 One last bunch of pictures from our summer trip to Busch Gardens!

We were in the mood for some relaxing, so we waited for the boat tour! The boat just left when we got there, so we had to wait for it to go out, and come back in... and then go out with us on it. So the time we spent relaxing here was technically two boat-rides worth. That's a lot of relaxing!

More Busch Gardens

 Of course there's more pictures from our trip to Busch Gardens. Who has to remember anything when we can get pictures? The Internet will remember this forever!

This water spray fan tech is amazing. It seems like some little kid just started rambling about "what if we had a giant fan.... and a hose... and we combined them! Whoa!" And here it is! Looks like they are trying to put a thing around it for photo ops. Probably everyone takes pictures of people enjoying this fan.

Busch Gardens Again!

 Busch Gardens! It seems like I was just here. Last time I got a ticket that was good thru the whole summer, so of course on my trip to Virginia, I'd try to go for a day, since I wouldn't have to pay for another ticket. And if I'm going, let's get some pictures!

Always good to get a simple cover picture with a logo on it. Can you tell this is the Busch Gardens logo? I'm not sure, either. Is there a "B" and "G" hidden in it? Is it supposed to be a tree for the garden? Loops of a roller coaster? Well, this is the logo, whatever it's supposed to be.

Explorers' Club

 Escape! One more bunch of pictures we got of stuff we did in Virginia.

After the minigolf, we used the power of the phones to find a room to escape from. I mean, I guess you can consider every room you are in, you would need to escape from, but these are professional rooms with puzzles and stuff.

More Trippy Pics

 Travel pics! On our trip down to Virginia we got a bunch of random pictures. So this is pretty normal for the Minty Blog but this time it's a little farther away from our normal randomness.

Wendy's drive thru. Hot and crisp fries every time? Nope! The fries were soft. Busted! We usually get baked potatoes at Wendy's but thought it would be easier to get fries. So the first time we try the new "Hot and crispy every time" fries, they were not very crispy. Sorry Wendy's, but you did this to yourself. If you promise me crispy fries, I have a right to blast you when I get soft fries, especially the first time I try them. Now I feel like... I can't trust Wendy's at all! Sure I probably could have gone back, and they would have gotten me fresher ones, they might have even been nice about it... but this is a drive thru! Who's going to turn around and re-wait in a line?!

This counts as a vacation

 Happy Birthday! Well, technically it was a while ago, but we travelled all the way back to Virginia to celebrate a birthday. And of course if Minty is going, I might as well get some pictures to share.

This happy unicorn was holding down the balloons. Can we have a fake candle in a closed jar? It looks cool, I guess, but a real candle would not work in a closed jar, so it kind of breaks the illusion. Yay; I ruined it by explaining it!