Surprise! It's the week of BreyerFest!
I had a great first day and felt like posting, so here we are. I'll share a few pics of my journey, and then the models I bought in room sales this evening.
BreyerFest wouldn't be BreyerFest without this nerd taking cloud photos. This was a small thunderstorm that went up over Columbus, OH, on my drive. I caught the bottom edge of it; it only rained for a few minutes.
Mandatory annual pictures of the Hell is Real sign between Columbus and Cincinnati, and the Florence Y'all tower. This is my fifteenth in-person BreyerFest, but I still take those pictures on every single drive.
As soon as I snapped the Florence Y'all pic and rounded the curve, this nasty-looking sky was staring me straight in the face. I had always intended to stop at the rest stop just past the water tower, and I stayed an extra few minutes to let the storm pass. Luckily, it looked worse than it was.
Annual mandatory pic of the Big Bone Lick State Park sign.
The moment of arrival ... and the infamous CHIN carpet.
We decided not to set up or open our room for sales tonight, and walked around shopping and checking out the renovations-in-progress instead. I took photos of some of the random things we found, like the phone from room 432 sitting on a bucket in a stairwell, and box of shower curtains in the hallway in the 400s.
[I can neither confirm nor deny the occurrence of a discussion with my roommate about snagging one of those new curtains from the hallway after we discovered that ours is barely long enough to reach the bathtub, let alone provide adequate coverage against spraying water. I anticipate at least one flooded bathroom floor in our future this week.]
This is a blog about my collection, so I guess I should get around to sharing my two purchases this evening.
This Merrylegs is from the 1992 Sears special run set #496092 Horses Great and Small set. I bought the grullo Clydesdale in my childhood collecting days, and found the black Cantering Welsh Pony a few years ago at an antique store. I was just missing the Merrylegs, and set out to find one this year at the CHIN. My friend Jackie had two of them in her room, and sold me one.
This handsome guy is a OOAK Stone Arab named 50 Shades of Gray. He was released in 2015. The seller posted him a few months ago on the Peter Stone Sales Page on Facebook, and I started a message to her about buying him probably a dozen times, but could never hit send. She had him with her in her room sales, and I couldn't walk away after seeing him in person. My parents gave me birthday money and some BreyerFest spending money, and he's what I chose to spend that on. I'm thrilled to have him!
Not sure how much time I'll have for other blog posts this week, but my regularly scheduled ones will still go up on Wednesday and Saturday. In the meantime, happy BreyerFest!
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