60 cents of awesome

    I love going to antique stores, and one thing I'm always looking for is cool, old looking mason jars or glass canisters. Normally I end up finding really cool ones, but the stores are charging ridiculous prices for them, so I end up walking out empty handed. 

    The other day on my way to work I saw a garage sale - yes, it's still in the 60s in Richmond, so people still have garage sales- and had to stop by. Then the magic happened: I saw these HUGE glass golden harvest canisters. Now, I've seen these go for upwards of $15-$20 at antique shops, but when I saw them unmarked in a big pile of dirty old dishes and tea cups I had a feeling these good old folks might not realize just what they had. At first when I asked the price for all three they looked like they just wanted to get rid of them for no cost to me- but settled on 20 cents a piece. 20. Cents. 

Here they are:

 And now, after a good cleaning and filled with some necessities:

So there you go. $65 dollars worth of canisters for 60 cents!

(oh, and yes, popcorn is one of the necessities, in case you were wondering)

Black and White Trip

We enjoyed our day off yesterday immensely, and headed off to Charlottesville. More details on the trip later, but for now:

More soon!

Not so sweet tea

People drink sweet tea like water here.

I had never had sweet tea before coming to Richmond, and when I told my coworkers that they just about fainted in shock. No, really. I got so many "ARE YOU KIDDING!?"s and "WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU DRINK!?!?"s when I told them at our Holiday meeting that it became clear I could no longer keep my sweet tea virginity if I was going to live here.

Today our DM took my boss and me out to lunch and of course, I was forced to try my first ever sweet tea. From the way people had been talking about it I was expecting some major liquid magic. I took a sip...and well, it tasted like tea...and it tasted sweet. That's about it. Shocking, eh? I mean, it wasn't bad at all, but I felt like if I drank too much more I was going to be on a sugar high for a week! My boss said I just need to get used to it, so when that happens I let you know.

I think I'll stick to milk, which should make my mother (and bones/teeth/waistline) very happy.

Signs, License Plates, Chickens, OH MY!

Welcome to our trip down South....

 <---live chickens. terrifying.

 <-------biscuit world!

safety first folks! ------------->

Two Beds

We got to the hotel here in Lexington and went to check in without a reservation...

Us: "Hi! We'd like to check in for just the night."
Receptionist Mike: "Okay. Two beds then?"
Us: "No, one is just fine!"
Receptionist Mike: "Two people means two beds. That's the law."

Yeah, he got us good. With a stone cold straight face he told us that- so serious that when we got to our room we honestly didn't know if there'd be two beds or one.
What can we say?
We're in the Christian South!
We didn't know if since we weren't married they were serious!

We are WAY too gullible for our own good.

Green Lantern?

We're safely in Lexington, Kentucky for the night folks! We have PLENTY of stories and blog posts to share later.
Just a quick story for you all y'all here:

We got to Lexington and went to a liquor store (come on, after 12 hours on the road, we deserved a beer or two) and Michael was wearing this shirt:

This is how the conversation with the liquor store clerk went...

Clerk (pointing to Michael's shirt) : "How'd y'all like the movie?"
(Michael and I look at each other confused)
Clerk: "Yah know. Tha Green Lantern"
(Realization he's talking about THIS movie)
Me: "Ohhh. No no his shirt is for the Green Bay Packers"
Clerk: "Uh..Ohhh right, right."

We're in a land where people don't know the Packer logo. I'm scared. Reeeeally scared.

ALSO: To pass the time we played Madlibs in the car today... let's just say one of them included Oprah wearing assless chaps...