A weekend in lovely Richmond, Virginia (Part 2)
...and we're back, continuing with more highlights from my awesome Richmond, Virginia trip.
Awesome Sushi Place: Though technically it wasn't in Richmond, we found this wonderful Japanese steakhouse & sushi place. The seating is in small groups around a bar-style table, and the authentically asian chef guy prepares the food right there inches from your very epidermis, with lots of pyrotechnics and throwing of knives. At the end, there's delicious complimentary sorbet.
Flea Market: we found an excellent flea market outside Richmond. It was entirely indoors, which is sometimes a bad sign as flea markets go, but we enjoyed this one. There were little pomeranians there, but they were asleep and couldn't be cuddled. I even managed to find some good Star Wars stuff. I found a 12-inch Ponda Baba action figure (no, it's not a doll! it's a figure!) for eight bucks. Better still, the seller also sold me two boxes of miscelleneous Star Wars stuff for $15 total, including an AT-AT walker, a Millenium Falcon, an X-wing, Boba Fett's ship Slave 1, a snowspeeder, a landspeeder, and various parts. All in all, quite a deal.
Toys 'R' Us: Speaking of cheap toys, we dropped by a Toys 'R' Us on Sunday, and they had a crazy sale going on. The old green-tag merchandise that was 50% off for awhile last year was now 90% off the lowest marked price, which in most cases was already at least 50% or more off the original prices. Almost everything we got was under a dollar, and some of it was under 10 cents a piece. Among the better finds were the Van Helsing movie action figures (49 cents each), some Simpsons action figures including the not-too-popular Brad Goodman (29 cents each), interactive Pokemon watches (19 cents each), Pixter electronic drawing pad thingies (about $3.00 each), and a LEGO hockey player and goal set for 3 cents! If you live near a Toys 'R' Us, go check it out. Even if you don't like toys, this stuff would be good for gift giving.
Oh, and I finally got the album "The Hush" by Texas! It rocks! Bit hard to find in the USA, though. Highly recommended... by me!
Awesome Sushi Place: Though technically it wasn't in Richmond, we found this wonderful Japanese steakhouse & sushi place. The seating is in small groups around a bar-style table, and the authentically asian chef guy prepares the food right there inches from your very epidermis, with lots of pyrotechnics and throwing of knives. At the end, there's delicious complimentary sorbet.
Flea Market: we found an excellent flea market outside Richmond. It was entirely indoors, which is sometimes a bad sign as flea markets go, but we enjoyed this one. There were little pomeranians there, but they were asleep and couldn't be cuddled. I even managed to find some good Star Wars stuff. I found a 12-inch Ponda Baba action figure (no, it's not a doll! it's a figure!) for eight bucks. Better still, the seller also sold me two boxes of miscelleneous Star Wars stuff for $15 total, including an AT-AT walker, a Millenium Falcon, an X-wing, Boba Fett's ship Slave 1, a snowspeeder, a landspeeder, and various parts. All in all, quite a deal.
Toys 'R' Us: Speaking of cheap toys, we dropped by a Toys 'R' Us on Sunday, and they had a crazy sale going on. The old green-tag merchandise that was 50% off for awhile last year was now 90% off the lowest marked price, which in most cases was already at least 50% or more off the original prices. Almost everything we got was under a dollar, and some of it was under 10 cents a piece. Among the better finds were the Van Helsing movie action figures (49 cents each), some Simpsons action figures including the not-too-popular Brad Goodman (29 cents each), interactive Pokemon watches (19 cents each), Pixter electronic drawing pad thingies (about $3.00 each), and a LEGO hockey player and goal set for 3 cents! If you live near a Toys 'R' Us, go check it out. Even if you don't like toys, this stuff would be good for gift giving.
Oh, and I finally got the album "The Hush" by Texas! It rocks! Bit hard to find in the USA, though. Highly recommended... by me!
posted by Andrew Lenahan at 9:19 PM
1 Comments:
The Awesome Sushi place was quite a treat! If anyone is interested I would highly reccomend that you order fried rice. I didn't order the fried rice and was very sad about that. Our waiter was brand new and didn't bring us our steamed rice until the end of dinner when we were almost finished. Let us hope he learns to be more prompt in the future.
The Flea Market was alot of fun and the people there were so kind...I was even given a cook book by a very kind gentkleman after asking how much he wanted for it. :)
YAY Toys R Us!!!! That was crazy fun! Stocked up on some swell gifts, we did! The one Toys R Us we went to was incredibly difficult to navigate ourselves into the parking lot from the road. It seemed you could only access the darn thing going in ONE direction...and if you happened to be heading the other way....tough patooties for you. Every intersection had a "No U-turn" sign. I was seriously considering investing in a car that could fly.
I double the reccomendation for the "Hush" CD!
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