Our Trip to Yankee Candle Flagship Store

 

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Well, the day started off a bit snowy and cold, but we somewhat spur-of-the-moment decided we wanted to visit the Yankee Candle flagship store in Deerfield, MA this Christmas season.  (Not REALLY spur of the moment, but we decided just a few days before.  We usually plan ahead more than that.)  We've been to the store before, and it's a really fun place to visit.  A big part of our motivation to go is that they have a fabulous display of Dept. 56 villages, and as you know if you're a regular reader, I have some pieces from the New England Village and DH wanted to get me a couple more pieces for Christmas this year.  (You can see *my* village so far in this post.)  The other Christmas disaplays they have though are really beautiful too - they even have an area devoted to different countries of the world.  Probably the coolest thing is there's an area where it snows every four minutes!  (I think it's actually soap flakes.)

  

Of course we had to take the opportunity on the way out for some quick cache-and-dash geocaching along the way.  If you're ever at a rest stop, and you see something like this:

   

  
It's probably a geocacher!  (That's DH "hunting".)
 
So we arrived at the big Yankee Candle store and I was so happy to see it wasn't nearly as crowded as I had feared.  The store itself has many sections - including a cafe and toy store.  It takes awhile to go though the whole thing.  There's even an area where they demonstrate how to make candles, and another area where you can dip your own, it's a pretty cool place.  And have you ever seen a bigger candle than THIS?
 

 

  

 

  

To be continued...

  

The end.