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Jacob's Apartment Just across the street from his favorite bar. It's a good life. |
Jacob I need to pick up the Sluggy book he's reading. |
Jacob's Stick It's always worth documenting that this stick still exists. |
The Mustard Museum The goal of our trip to Mount Horeb. I was not prepared for its glory. |
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Amber Amber had come along for the trip. |
Jacob Jacob, of course, led us here. |
Mt. Horeb Post Office I figured Dad would be happy to see that it existed. |
Hit and Run Sign In the mustard museum window; it apparently referred to a type of horseradish and mustard. |
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Poupon U Paraphernalia And this is just the stuff in the window! |
Security Alert "All visitors to the Mustard Museum are subject to search for ketchup and mayonnaise. Please do not attempt to bring containers of these contraband condiments into the building." |
Out of Mustard This is the best poster in the store. I want one. |
Mustard Mural Die, ketchup! |
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Refrigerated Mustards Most of them were out, but some needed to stay cold. |
Mustard Tasting Station There were lots of these strewn about... |
Lots of Mustards ...but this was the motherload. |
Taste Testing We tried a couple of dozen varied mustards here. It was fun! |
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Fruit Mustards This is really Dad's kind of place. |
Mustard Museum - the Museum We eventually went into the museum half, instead of just the store. |
Shelves of Mustards Guess what? There were a lot of mustards there! |
Illinois Mustards A whole set of shelves just for our home state... |
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Kiwi Mustards Haha! Illinois has more mustards than New Zealand! (Of course, there's more of us, too.) |
Aussie Mustards This one actually let me see the sign... |
Aussie Mustards, II ...and this one was a better overview. |
Mustard Geography Part of Poupon U, the mustard University. |
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Mustard Dispenser For when you need an IV drip of mustard. |
Tins of Mustard Dry mustard? Not my thing. (I'm glad they didn't have mustard gas there, come to think of it.) |
Mustard Costume This would make for an excellent costume. |
Mustard M&Ms The yellow ones are meant to signify mustard? *shiver* |
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Tubular Mustards I guess you can squeeze them out too. |
Poupon U Fight Song "On our hot dogs / On our bratwursts / Mustard is so cool!" |
Poupon U Slogans #11: "Okay, so mathematics is not our strong suit." |
Poupon U Banners "Pardon me, but... POUPON U" |
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A Fair There was a summer fair going on in town after we left the museum, fairly coincidentally. |
Hanging Apple I should get stuff like this for Dad. |
Twirly Things Beth likes these kinds of things. |
MHTC Mount Horeb Telephone Company. I like the acronym, for some reason. |
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Grumpy Troll We ate lunch here. It was pretty tasty. |
Beer Sampler I even helped out in finishing these things up... |
Thirsty Troll Brew Fest Trolls are important in this town. |
Troll Crossing I just couldn't figure out where to put one of these signs. |
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Jacob A bit too bright, but not a horrible picture anyway. |
Amber Is it bad that the first thing I think to write is "out of focus, dammit!" |
Tim See? The picture of me was fine! |
Please Don't Sit Here I really should have taken that sign. |
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The Fair Finally, after lunch, we wandered around and checked out the fair. |
The Gourd Guy That's who I want to be some day. No, wait, I don't, nevermind. |
Troll Statue Can't I have one of these, at least? |
Trolls and Cats A stuffed troll, a book about cats, and a woman that apparently likes both. Whee! |
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Meeting the Author It was a kid's book about trolls. Beth almost brought one back for Borders. |
Nice Canoe Jacob entered the raffle to win this thing. I have to admit, it was a pretty piece of work. |
Junk Sculptures I should get stuff like that for the front yard. If only Beth wouldn't hate them... |
Junk Cat Sculptures I wonder if she'd go for one of these? |
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Toe Rings That's a specialty shop. |
More Troll Sculptures I like having towns full of these things. |
More Troll Sculptures, II They're all cool looking... |
More Troll Sculptures, III ...I want my town to have cool character things like that. |
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Lemonade It was a hot day; we needed the drink. |
Auds-n-Ends A cute sign, certainly. |
Mustard ATV In Mount Horeb, everything is mustard-spattered. |
Beagle Beth got this picture, I believe. |
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Happy Lemonade Cold liquids, aaahh... |
B is for Badger That's good enough for me! |
Old Cars When looking outside of a Culver's, what do you expect to see? |
Old Cars, II For my part, I don't expect to see a few dozen 1930s-era cars. |
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Old Cars, III Or whatever they are, anyway. I really don't know how old they are. |
Old Cars, IV But they sure were pretty. |
Old Cars, V I was just stopping for gas, before we headed to Madison... |
Old Cars, VI I think that the others were a bit annoyed at me for getting back late. |
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Old Cars, VII I was just happy to get the nice pictures. |
Old Cars, VIII Too bad for them, they missed it. |
Old Cars, IX No, I don't actually want to own any of these. |
Old Cars, X But I'm happy to see 'em. |
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Beth, Amber, and Jacob It's a nice picture of 'em. |
Walk Closed Beth, come back! |
Amber and Ice Cream We stopped for ice cream after lunch, which was silly because we were also full, but... mmm, ice cream! |
Tim Faces I believe that these were taken because Beth complaints that I never smile in pictures. |
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Tim Faces, II Well, this is what I'm normally like. |
Tim Faces, III And this is not. |
Tim Faces, IV But I think this is what Beth was really looking for. |
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