Birthday Outings, Part II: The Big Flea Market

After finding the Massaponax Flea Market to be a bust and having over an hour before anything else in the area we were interested in would open, we had to pivot for the birthday outings. This led us to the Fredericksburg Big Flea Market. This is run by the same folks who host the DC Big Flea, something I've been to a handful of times. As such, we weren't expecting much, and really just needed it to kill time, which it did.

Right off the bat, for how large the building was, the actual "convention" itself is much smaller than the DC iteration. Space was definitely not maximized, but perhaps that's because there weren't enough vendors to necessitate it.

Most of the items were antique based, but there were a handful of vendors selling "collectibles", mostly records. While I did find a vendor selling some old wax packs of cards that intrigued me, his prices quickly eliminated that.

Unlike Massaponax, we didn't leave empty handed, but we also didn't necessarily buy anything we needed. My girl picked up a first pressing of Michael Jackson's Thriller on CD, and I grabbed a CD soundtrack of Stargate, as well as a unique Netherlands Sesame Street record.

The latter was all about the intrigue. However, when I got home, it dawned on me that it probably wasn't in English, and upon throwing it on to find out, sure enough, it's not. I think this one may be going to George of G.I. Jigsaw, if he wants it. He's into weird records.

From there, a place we were actually planning our day for was open, so off we went. That post coming a bit later...

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Birthday Outings, Part I - Massaponax Flea Market

For my birthday, my girl and I started early. Saturday, the 15th to be exact. We did this for two reasons. One, Sunday was supposed to be raining. Two, with work on Monday, we didn't want to spend all day out, only to have to race home, and jump in bed for the next day. Going on Saturday let us do things (somewhat) at our own pace.

We spent the day in Fredericksburg, a town we'd been to many times. Here, our first stop was Massaponax Flea Market. It's a place we'd been to before and found to be quite enjoyable. Which is why I'm sad to say that today's trip was kind of a bust. Though there was a fair amount of stuff to look through, a lot of shops had closed up permanently, or simply weren't open.

Between the two of us, we found nothing worth picking up. This was actually something we heard echoed from multiple people there.

The problem this created for us was that we expected to spend more time there than we did, and by the time we left, most places still weren't open for the day. As such, we had to pivot and come up with an alternate plan.

That plan coming later today...

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