yankee candle doodle dandee

On Saturday, we visited a place called Yankee Candle Company!! It's a MASSIVE store that mainly sells candles (as you probably guessed) and other home decor but also has a really large toy section, food court and fudge factory! YUM!!! We first visited the toy shoppe, of course, where the kids each chose a toy. There was tons of stuff to play with and at the back of the toy shoppe we found this oversized bionicle made entirely out of legos!! Too cool!!

Then we toured some more of the store and found lots of really cool little rooms decorated as different time periods or in different themes. There was a midevil room, a waterfall room (with a real waterfall!!), a forest room and even a toy train that ran around the top of each room!!

In the forest themed room we hit the jackpot!! We had heard that it snowed inside this room from time to time and just as we stepped through the door guess what???? It began to snow!! What luck!!!


Then we headed over to the banjo show where these animatronic characters play christmas songs and sing! The boys thought it was interesting for about two songs and then we headed back to do some more sightseeing. We did get to eat a caramel apple with coconut and chocolate topping while we watched...YUMMMMY!!!!!

Finally, we found a lifesize pirate ship tucked into the toy shoppe and the boys played with daddy while mommy shopped...

I ended up buying WAY too many candles but what is Christmas money really for!?!? HA!!!! Plus, I had a fun time shopping and taking my time smelling nearly each and every candle! When we come back to visit Connecticut again Yankee Candle Company will be at the top of my list to visit again!!!