Florida and Droids

Well, I'm back from Florida. Had a great trip and totally geeked out with my myriad of cousins. We ended up playing Dungeons & Dragons for three nights :). Games of Chez Geek and Super Munchkin were also played to unexpected results. Our normally non-geek cousin Darwin ended up winning both games. I attribute this to him growing a goatee and therefore it must have been an alternate universe version of him that had won the games :). Later, my cousin Darwin set up some poker and black jack games for us on two nights using casino chips. Was an awesome time, and I'll even miss the annoying though often amusing antics of my little cousin Ryan :).

While in Florida, my cousin Ernest showed us some very cool stores. I was able to add 5 new astromech droids to my collection :). Three were found in Wal-Mart as part of the new Droid Factory line. The coolest finds though were two Star Tours droids found at the Acme Superstore, an amazing collector's paradise. The place has the biggest selection of hard to find Star Wars, Star Trek, G.I. Joe and Transformers toys and collectibles I have ever seen. We also visited Cool Stuff Games and Rhubarb Games to pick up some D&D stuff. Of course we also ended up checking the local Barnes & Nobles and Borders for some manga browsing :).



Here's some pics of the droids I picked up. The three in front are R4-H5, R2-T0 and R4-F5. The two in the back are the Star Tours droids R3-D3 and R4-M9.





Here's a line up of some of the astromech droids I have. I have ten more that aren't shown because they are still in the display packaging.

Thanks again to all my cousins. It was a really fun time, and way too short. Hopefully I can visit again soon or maybe you all can visit me up here in NYC sometime :).