Garage Sale Finds! (May 19)

Poolie (my fiancé...whose name is actually Paul but I call him Poolie) and I went to garage sales on Saturday and had an AMAZING time!  We're definitely hooked.  We woke up pretty early in the morning and left the house around 7:30am. At the first sale, Paul picked up a couple of super sweet old Star Wars records

At the next sale, we found an awesome Orcana air organ.  All of the keys not only play, but they're also in tune!  We'll be adding it to our little collection of air organs (I think we're up to about 5 or 6 of them now and they all sound different!)  Poolie also found a handmade walking stick (or as he calls it, the Mystical Stick).


The best part of the entire day though was a garage sale that I found in the paper that had two awesome words attached to it:  Video Games!  So, we arrived and the first huge table we saw was the guys from Cash Converters selling off extra stock of new and used games!  So, we grabbed some games that we'd been meaning to buy for the Cube and the PS2.


 Then, we found out that the garage sale was at the site of the Personal Computer Museum, a place which we had been meaning to explore.  It was actually inside a building behind the house (how cool is that, to have a computer museum in your backyard!)  In the backyard, there were a few more tables with some vendors selling other misc. computer and video game things, where we bought some NES games and a whole box of old Nintendo Power magazines!  Then, one of the biggest finds - an original Commodore 64 computer in the box and the drive - so stoked about this!  Poolie and I have both never had a Commodore 64 and have always wanted one.  I've wanted one since I played Bubble Bobble for the first time at a friend's house when I was really little.  The only thing we need for it now is a monitor, which shouldn't be too hard to find

We were lucky enough to take a tour of the museum itself which is amazing.  They have so many different PCs on display to see and play.  There are lots of pictures and information up at the museum's website, but I highly recommend checking it out for yourself in person if you have the chance!  We also got to hear some awesome live music, thanks to Rob & Steph, who were making some amazing beats and bleeps from a pair of Atari 2600s and a music Atari cartridge called SynthCart.  Paul and I are definitely going to get our hands on the SynthCart when we get the chance so we can create our own sweet sounds!  Anyway, garage sales were so much fun this weekend, can't wait until next week!