Do you buy ornaments when on vacation?

[clovergirl5]

Christmas ornaments and sweatshirt/t-shirts are just about the only souvenirs we buy. One time I bought a Spectromagic CD, and another time we bough a picture frame shaped like a castle (3 yrs ago, no pictures in it YET!)

I bought beautiful Italian glass ornaments in Epcot, and some really cute reindeer ornaments at a gift store at Universal. I also have a tinkerbell sitting on a snowflake. My daughter has Minnie inside a glass bulb and my son has the same one with Mickey. It is fun to have these special ornaments to remember our trips at Christmas time.

On a side note, I have given a single ornament from a set to each of my 3 friends (I have the fourth). That way, no matter where we end up in life, we will always think of each other when we decorate the tree!

Thats cool.

 

[clovergirl5]

Yes, we started a long time ago and have one whole tree in our finished basement devoted to our travel ornaments. It's my favorite tree, not necessarily the most beautiful, but full of fun, fun memories! We put the year we travelled wherever the ornament is from on it with a thin black sharpie.

If anyone is interested in Washington DC type ornaments, there is a White House Christmas ornament put out each year that features a different president/historical aspect of the White House. They are beautiful and collectibles. There is a website you can order them off of. I have one for each year since 1998 when we moved there and was given one as a gift by a friend who is a wife of a Marine officer. We go back to DC each year and I get them from the White House Visitor Center.

I've always wanted to go to Frankenmuth in Michigan for the Christmas store there!

It unbelievable! I have only been there once in my teens. Its is floor to ceiling in xmas stuff. Definitely don't want to bring small kids there though...lots of breakable stuff

 

[clovergirl5]

yes, only disney ones. everyone that comes to my house knows that i'm a disney freak and they arent surprised that my christmas tree is disney.

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I likey!

 

[clovergirl5]

I've bought some ornamnents, esp Disney.

We started buying fridge magnets from everywhere we go. It's fun to walk by the fridge and see little reminders of all the thing we have been lucky enough to do.

Jess

I like to do that too! We have those from all of our travels. Dd2 likes to play with them. Sometimes I find them missing

 

[binny]

yep always. This year we have San Diego, Oregon Coast, Denver, Maine, and Boston to add to our tree. Wow I didnt realize how much we went this year until I typed that out LOL Good travel year!