Its The Season

It is that time of year when we never have enough time to complete the things that need to be done. Add onto that continued preparations for the wedding and we seem to be working on yesterday everyday. Well today Alan had the day off so it was spent getting the outside decorations set up. It turned out to be a great day to get this task completed as the sun came out after 11am making it a beautiful day to be outside.

We have begun hitting the stores doing some Christmas shopping but it looks like a lot of this will be done online, late at night, when we have the time ( why waste it sleeping ). Wish lists have been exchanged with the rest of our family members. Many of the items on these lists contain Internet links. It's a great way to make sure everyone gets what they want and makes it easy to find it the right item. How did our parents ever get all this done?

We are looking forward to this weekend as we plan on attending a Holiday Party with some old friends in Danville. We don't seem to get up there as often as we would like so we always a wonderful time when we do. It also is a great way to kick off the Christmas Season. We hope you all find the time to spend with family and friends as well.

Woking On The Collection

For the last 6 months or so all the new Pez that we have purchased were just stored in plastic bags piled in Keith's room. After coming back from SC we decided we better get another tote and get things put away. So tonight the work began. After sorting Pez all over the floor we began labeling containers and getting things put away. Time was also spent sorting out the doubles that have been accumulated over the last year or so. Many of these are because sometimes we buy new releases at the same time just 500 miles apart.

After sorting everything out we now have a new total.....Drum roll...... 964 different dispensers, 80 duplicates and 146 pez related items. The closet is getting full.

Going To The Chapel

Today we went to the chapel to check out the decor items we have made and make the final decorating decisions. For the most part everything we have and have done worked out just as we had hoped. We had a couple small things that need some additional work but this puts one more thing into the completed column before the major Christmas season get into full swing. It's hard to believe we have just over four months before the big day.

Also this week we did the PDOJ. For those of you not paying attention that's the "PEZ DANCE OF JOY". We found the 4 Christmas PEZ with the snowflake stamps on the stems. They are not showing up in all the stores and it seems the Santa is the hardest to find. Well add 4 to the total. 1000 here we come!

PEZ Update

Now that we have been home a couple of days we have been able to add the PEZ that we purchased at Myrtle Beach into Keith's database. His total is now 951 different dispensers and 144 non dispenser items for a total of 1095. This total does not account for the duplicate items he has which add between 75 to 100 more. It looks like we need to find 5 more items to get to an even 1100.

Many of the PEZ he got this time were either dispensers that are only released in Europe or vintage PEZ that have been on his wish list. As always at these things we found most of what he was looking from one dealer who lives in Austria and who at one time worked for PEZ. As Keith said we paid for her plane ticket again this year.

It never fails to amaze me that after 12 years of collecting he has amassed this large a collection. This display holds only a small portion of the collection. Most of the PEZ are in their original packages and stored in small plastic cases. Maybe we should open our own PEZ Museum !

How Far Would you Go....

...to buy a PEZ. Well if you were us you would invade Myrtle Beach for the weekend. It started when Barb drove down on Thursday and was the first to arrive at about 5:30 that evening. Keith arrived around 1:30 Friday morning when he drove over after working until 11pm Thursday night. Alan was the last to arrive when he flew in on Friday night at 11:30.

On Friday Barb and Keith spent some time at the PEZ convention and then did some site seeing including an evening walk on the beach. Saturday again found all of us shopping for PEZ. By the time we were done Keith had 35 PEZ to add to his collection bringing it to 949 different dispensers. If you go that far to buy PEZ you need to buy more than one. After we left there we went to Broadway at Myrtle Beach, which is a large shopping and entertainment complex. Saturday night was again spent walking on the beach and looking for sea shells. After all the motel was on the beach making access easy. You can get some great deals in November.

Sunday morning after some pictures of the sunrise over the sea it was time to part company and to head home. At least we will see Keith for Christmas this year as he has been approved for leave.