Visit an Herb Shop

Today's fun activity was to seek out an herb shop. We were surprised to learn that there are many of them near our home. One of the neater ones nearby is called Limbo, and they offer many hundreds of herbs, spices, and teas, all housed in large, gallon-sized jars and mostly priced by the ounce. Everything's arranged alphabetically. To give an idea of the size of the place, here's a shot of the A section and part of the B section:



We spent 20-30 minutes browsing the aisles. I got a kick out of this one, which advised caution in opening the jar. This particular habanero pepper powder was the hottest one they had:



In the end, we spent about $13. We don't normally intend to spend money on these fun projects, but we decided that we needed/wanted a few things. We bought some fennel seeds, some cardamom pods (and a bit of powder), a little vanilla powder, some patchouli powder (not sure what we'll do with that), and a small bag of catnip for the cat.



There was one other really great herb shop we found, but we wanted to save discussion of that one for our other blog that deals with health and nutrition, as that shop sold quite a lot of rare medicinal herbs.

What else fun can we do for an hour? Leave a suggestion as a comment! We would like to pick things on a regular basis. If a suggestion if inspiring to you and you complete one of the activities, be sure to send us a pic!