Sights of Asheville and Type A Con, The Final Chapter

 

On the last day of the Type A Conference, my roomie Good Girl Gone Redneck and I headed out to see some more sights around Asheville.

 In particular, we wanted to check out the old Woolworth's, which not only still had a soda fountain, but was also stuffed full of local artisan goods.

I fell in love with these little birds.  

I didn't end up buying any souvenirs, but if I had, I would've bought one of these 

adorable little fellows:

Native American crafts -

I don't knit or weave or crochet, but I thought these colors were beautiful:

And so much lovely jewelry: 

Old folksy friends:

Andrea and I fell in love with the bottle tree.

We both read the book On Folly Beach, which talks a lot about bottle trees.

So we were thrilled to find one in person!

And I had to take a picture of this guy, simply because he looks just like the Mad Banana that showed up in Muffin Tin Monday a couple of weeks ago.

Chicken wall art - totally loved these too!

After that, Andrea and I went looking for dinner.  The front desk of our hotel had recommended Doc Chey's, and we were totally craving noodles.

I ate this entire bowl-

in like 30 seconds.

Andrea had taken about 2 bites by the time I finished.

I guess I was hungry.  Plus, it was that good.

When we got back to the hotel, it was time for the closing party which was put on by Ubisoft.

They had a Smurf theme.

Being a child of the 80s, I could dig that.

They also had a Wii dance off.

 I don't dance.  

Because I have absolutely no coordination.  It's scary.

But I had fun watching.

And drinking my Smurftini.

And eating Smurf cupcakes and wearing Smurf flashing bling.

Because who doesn't love wearing a blue strobe light (or two!) on her hand?

 It was a very fun evening.

Here's a picture of all the swag.  In case you can't tell, it basically takes up the width of the king size bed:

When you go to a blog conference, there are brands there giving out fun samples to take home.  I had a genuine interest in quite a few products, and the representatives were very informative. 

Not pictured are a couple of Nintendo DS games (I'll be giving one away as a dog adoption fundraiser that This Old House Too is putting on in the near future), a large Papa Smurf, and a $25 iTunes gift card.

I'm glad I didn't fly, because I would've had a time trying to get all this into a suitcase!