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Trash Treasures Round II

Back again with another pretty cool find. This time I was just driving home from work and saw this big bunched up thing on the side of a dumpster. Being the inquisitive person I am I drove on up to see what it was. I should have snapped a photo of it as it was when I found it. After pulling it out I still didnt know what it was until I fully set it up. Here you have it...a Hammock!




And as an added bonus I found these too!



Some Old School Atomic Skis with poles. LOL. These will turn into a project bench/Chair that I am going to make out of old ski and snowboard equipment.


And a quick update. In my last find I showed you this chair here...



I sold that yesterday!

Trash Treasures

So I´ve been labeled the Trash King by close friends and family. I also have the luck of number 7 floating around with me. I´ve always been interested in others peoples unwanted items so naturally when I see some stuff on the curb I stop and take a look. If I like something I see, I take it.. why not "someones trash is another mans treasure" right? As of late I have been finding some really cool stuff. Stuff with VALUE. My latest find included items valued at over $1000 dollars and I´ll get to that in a minute. At this rate I will probably have to open a store soon. Or just have an always open garage sale like @CedEntertainer on the recent movie Larry Crowne.

I figured I would share my finds with you through this blog. This will be the first of many posts to come about what I find on my travels throughout the good ol county of Fairfax and surrounding areas.

Here goes the first official post of Trash Treasures and 2012!!

The new year started out with people cleaning out their old unwanted furniture, clothes, and other home accessories. This is what I have found this year so far. Everything is for sale! The nice Adirondack chair is from Plow & Hearth and has 2 cushions! All the cast iron and birds are from Pottery Barn and current inventory!

First Shred day of the year!!

Bro and I went to 7 Springs on Christmas eve and I finally got to scratch that itch I've been having all summer long.

Going to the mall today...

In the madness of Christmas shopping. I'll stream my shopping adventure.

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MEHICOOOOO - Chichèn. IT's REAL

Oh Mehico how I love thee. Everything about you. Your people (albeit some people like to give your country a bad rap) Your Music, Your Culture, YOUR FOOD and YOUR BEACHES. Of course there is also your rich Mayan history which was really brought to my attention in my recent trip to Cancun. This being my first trip to Cancun I wasn't aware of how many Mayan people lived in the area. Although I never made it to Cancun proper during my vacation I think I enjoyed seeing the REAL Mexico over going to the Americanized city that is Mexicos Las Vegas.

Well here we have it.. The great Chichèn Itzà ( Chicken Pizza if you can't pronounce that ) lies in the DEEP flats of the Yucatàn. It took us 4 hours via tour bus to get here and the ride was.. well long.. boring.. not much but long fields like the Savannas of Africa. We had a short pit stop to eat and play at one of the local Cenotes. It was probably one of the coolest things I have done to date. Some pictures of where we played...







That was one the stops of the RedBull Cliff diving last year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJRspiK8poE

So after playing a bit we finally arrived at Chichèn Itzà. Not knowing anything about this Sacred land other than it was filled with lots of Mayan history I was ready to take a tour and learn everything there is to about this wonderful place. As soon as you walk through the ticket booths you get swarmed with teeny bopper vendors trying to lure you into their parents tables.


And this lasts about 5 minutes of walking down this long path and all of a sudden BOOM



There she is. This huge Pyramid by the name of Kuculcan. As you can see unlike the pyramids of Egypt this and all the other pyramids of the Maya are flat on top. This is due to the Temple being on the top of each one. Whilst on the tour I learned that the Kukulcan temple was pretty much a calendar for the Maya. Each side of the pyramid consisted of 91 stairs. 91 stairs X 4 sides = 364 plus the temple at the top made it 365. Which equals the days of the Haab Calendar year.



I also went on to learn that there was A LOT of death happening in this place. Like ALOT.. like enough to have a whole temple for sacrifices. Along with el Cenote Sagrado this is were all the killing.. I mean sacrifices took place.





The day went on and I learned more.. pics can tell the rest.









And of course I can't end this without showing you pictures of Tequila :)

Mia gaurding the house.

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