Are you looking for something spooky to watch as we wind our way down to Halloween, but find yourself bored by the usual fare of cheesy monster movies or gross slasher flicks? Maybe you’re in the mood for something a little more thoughtful; a little more substantial, perhaps? Let me show you something interesting.
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The Decorator’s Warehouse, located in Arlington, Texas, bills itself as Texas’s largest Christmas store. And it is very large. But what really impresses you upon entering the place is just how jam-packed it is with holiday and seasonal baubles, as if despite its football-field size floor space they still did not have quite enough room to fit everything.
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Katie and the gang over at Cheap Thrills invited me and the kids to do a co-review highlighting some of our favorite summer treats. You can check out their submission, Culver’s Frozen Custard, below.
Naturally, I jumped at the chance to introduce you guys to one of the hidden treasures of our little neighborhood — Bahama Bucks!
Bucks is sort of like Jimmy Buffett’s own sno-cone stand. It serves sno-cones and tropical smoothies, some coffee drinks, and you can even get mixed fruit cups there if you’d like. They specialize in all the fruity flavors of the Caribbean, and feature plenty of faux-rum, faux-daiquiri, and faux-colada treats. Take a look at their menu. It’s huge. And there’s a pickle juice sno-cone. Cheeseburger in Paradise, anyone?
And you can also buy snow balls there. Year round!
Come experience some summer zest with Team Tobyblog and the Cheap Thrills crew!
Straight off a Dollar Store shelf at the lovely Grapevine Mills Mall in Grapevine, Texas, and stocked just a few bins over from the storied Orchard Skittles, comes Kranky Candy, the coffee dusted confection you will soon come to know and love. Is it an afternoon snack? A breakfast substitute? Repurposed industrial by-product? You decide.
Joining me in his first proper appearance* on Tobyblog is my good friend Brian Hammons of ReviewTheWorld.com.
Together we sample.
We discover.
And we bring our findings to the world. Enjoy.
(* The beer review, shot as it was on an already shaky stomach, and with a lame furtive effort to avoid being spotted by the patrolling cops, hardly counts. -TJM)
