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Philly #BrickFest LIVE – Day 1

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Drew Plus Woody
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Brian (From Built From Bricks) and I drove down to Oaks, PA for Philly BrickFest LIVE. We took the Kia Sorento down for the trip. DriveShop and Kia provided us with the car for a week. It was a great ride down. so nice to be talking with Brian all through the ride. It made the trip go by so quickly.

When we arrived we went right to the Oaks EXPO Center. We unloaded Brian’s MOCs and claimed our space. then we walked around and met a bunch of people. I went to a special class for animating LEGO bricks. I learned some fun stuff from David from Brick 101. I made a great Stop Motion video using Stop Motion Studio. It was so much fun and I learned some great techniques. Then I made this movie called Dagnabit!

We hopped out and got some Chinese food which we brought back to eat while participating in the charity auction.

We attended an auction and I bid on some Avengers sets and got them for $25, which was a good deal. I donated a LEGO Dinosaur set that went for $81! I can’t believe how much that set went for, I only got it for free because of a mistake and tried to send it back. I had it for over 2 years now. Glad I could help raise some money for the Charity auction.

Later that night we went to a bowling activity and it was so much fun. We bowled with teams of 5 and as each person bowled their frame they had to go back to a table and build part of a LEGO set as a race. My team did not win but I did win the set in a raffle. Brian did, too!

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Opening Day at Snappy Dogs 2017

Teresa at Snappy Dogs
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I took my dad and Andrew up to Hopkinton to have lunch at Snappy Dogs. I love this place. I learned about it years ago from my friend, The Hot Dog Man, who was touring the different hot dog joints of New England. He introduced me to Lisa and Teresa, two wonderful women who run Snappy Dogs. This place is great, they serve Pearl Hot Dogs in a variety of sizes from the Little Dog to the Great Dane (1/2lb dog). On Friday they even have a special gourmet dog and that changes each week. I once had a steak and cheese dog and it was incredible! Last year we went up for Opening Day and met up with my sister and her kids. It is close to where they live but we didn’t catch up with them today. Today was the guys. Three Andrew’s enjoying dogs. Andrew got a little dog, Dad a Big Dog and I had to go with the Great Dane! All the condiments are homemade and delicious. Then there are the desserts. I grabbed a few and took them home to Allison and Eva to enjoy. Some cookies and a couple of Whoopie Dogs. Caramel Whoopie Dogs. It was a well worth the trip.

When I got home there was a package for me from Amazon.com. I had ordered a microphone so that I could capture better sound for Built from Bricks and especially for when we head to Philly Brickfest LIVE. We’ll be interviewing people and good sound is important. I am also on a budget so I got a fairly inexpensive one. I got the Movo VXR300 HD Professional Condenser X/Y Stereo Video Microphone for DSLR Video Cameras to my arsenal of gadgets. You can pick up the mic through my amazon affiliate link – http://amzn.to/2oDmzQ2 This can only work on my NX1 camera because that is the only one with an input jack.

I also got this one because I have an order in for a MicRig that I got through Kickstarter. I actually snagged it at the $25 price so I’m really excited about that.