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November 07, 2007

Castles

Apparently, castles are big in South Carolina. We stopped for gas not long into our drive today and there were two castles within eyesight of the gas station/Wendy's/DQ/Stuckey's multi-purpose extravaganza at which we stopped.

Both castles, apparently, had something to do with video games.

On one hand, there was Stormin' Norman's Video Games.

And on the other, there was Castle Video Games.

The whole situation raised a host of questions. Such as: how do the folks at Norman's feel about the other, clearly superior castle? Even if Norman's game offerings were on par with, or even superior to, those of Castle Video Games, wrenching feelings of castle inferiority would haunt them, right? Norman's has no knights, for example.

Norman's has no massive wooden door.

So which came first? Did Castle Video Games invade the peaceful town, acting like the Wal-Mart of the "video game stores in castles" world, flexing it corporate muscle and shaming poor Norman's? Or did Norman's, the upstart renegade mom and pop dare to dream, taking on the comfortable fatcat Castle Video Games in a daring act of grassroots castle-based video game commerce?

We can only wonder and cheer for the little guy. But one has to ask, if there were to be an actual battle, do we think that Norman's would stand a fighting chance?

We drove on.

As we entered Georgia, we passed this gigantic peach.

Iggy took a nap in the crook of my arm.

We marveled at the web of highways.

We enjoyed the late afternoon light on the bricks.

Robbi got irritated at something she saw.

It may have been this billboard.

We left Iggy with my grandpa in Atlanta and proceeded to Columbus, where tomorrow we will see my brother for the "family day" that precedes his boot camp graduation ceremony. I have brought along my "Proud Army Brother" t-shirt for the occasion.

Posted by bogenamp at November 7, 2007 10:09 PM