Let me tell you about a place called Boyd's Bear Country. It looks a little something like this:
It is the world's largest teddy bear store. It is 4 stories tall, with a restaurant, bakery, ice cream parlor, and live country band. There is "nursery" where you can adopt your newborn teddy bear from a lady wearing nurse's scrubs and a factory where you can don a hard hat and build your own stuffed animal. There is a jungle room, a farm room, a military room, a Christmas room, bears dressed up as every occupation known to man, a room dedicated to all four seasons of the year, and two separate sections showcasing Coca Cola and Crayola. Case in point:
They also had a guy walking around in a bear costume, shaking hands with all the little kids. My daughter was terrified of him at first and started crying and asked, "Mommy, is that a real bear?!" But, she got over it and went to talk to him. My son, however, never recovered from the trauma. So, instead of comforting him in his time of need, we took a picture!
Anyway, after spending about 2 hours there and a lot of stress on the part of our non-decision making daughter, we came out with a pig named Oinky (hers) and a lion named Roary (his).*************************************************************************************
Oh, yeah, we went to Gettysburg, too. It was pretty much a bunch of fields and monuments. Ha. Ha. Just kidding. The museum was really cool; a lot of guns and cannons and whatnot. Before doing the tour, we went to lunch at a place called the Dobbin House Tavern. It was built in 1776 and pretty much hasn't changed since then. You have to go down a really steep, winding staircase into the basement and the whole place is lit with candlelight. They serve colonial-style food that was pretty tasty but the history and ambiance was what it was really all about.
After lunch, we took the Gettysburg auto tour, but the speakers in our car don't work, so instead of listening to the tour guide on cassette, I had to read the guide book while we drove. We put a movie on for the kids in the back and really learned a lot and enjoyed ourselves. My husband and I took turns getting out of the car to look around and take pictures and we didn't hear a peep out of the kids for the whole two hours. Now, that's the way to sight-see!
So, that was our Saturday. How was yours?
2 comments:
Love the names Oinky and Roary. :)
I want to know what colonial food you ate. Are we talking like pot roast or something?
As for my weekend, I got to enjoy the sights (and smells) of southern Idaho on my way home to the beautiful wasatch front. A nice B-day dinner for mom with our fun cousins topped the whole thing off!
Sarita: Colonial food -- basically like good country home cooking. We had a fruit platter with lots of different kinds of fruit, really good bread, and a soft cheese spread. And then we all shared Hot Beef Sandwiches (French Dip, basically). You could also get all sorts of stews and chowders, rotisserie chicken and, yes, pot roast. The food was just so-so but the restaurant was really cool.
I am jealous of your weekend. It gets lonely out here without family and friends.
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