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My hubby has recently gotten into fly tying. He doesn't fly fish, he just enjoys making the flys. So, we took a trip to Foxboro MA to the one and only Bass Pro Shop in MA. The place was cool. The first time we went, I didn't bring my camera. Honestly who would think to bring a camera to a store. But, OMG, this is way morethan a store. It is like a huge museum.

The outside middle part of the store.

If you turn to the left, you will see...

 Gillette Stadium, home of the Patriots.

When you first walk into BPS, there is this HUGE fireplace to your left with a huge deer (or was it a Moose) over it. Full animal, not just the head. You have to walk through those turning things like at an amusment part to actually enter the store.

Once in there is so much to see, not including all the merchandise. I swear half the store is all fishing stuff, the other hunting stuff. Never before have I seen so many guns before. LOL

There is even a shooting gallery that the "kids" have fun playing at.

You shoot these green blinking sensors and something will happen. Like if you shoot the tree at the bottom, it will fall over and you can hear "Timber" being shouted, if you shoot the top, a racoon will come out. It was fun even though I am a lousy shot.

As you are walking down the stairs (to the fishing level), there is this real river going all the way down into a huge tank that is filled with real fish. Yummy local fish. Catfish and salmon and other things I couldn't identify without looking at the chart.

Stupid flash would not turn off. The tank was dark, so the flash kept going off even after I turned it off. Oh well.

They had a pond with a huge Moose in it, not alive anymore and fish swimming around it's ankles. In another part of the pond, past the beavers dam (with real stuffed beavers), there were turtles. Cute box turtles.

They were chilling out on to of a plastic tree under a bucket turned into a heat lamp.

after the turtles, I happened to look up and saw this:

I was in the middle of camping land, but thought all the deer running down the side of the river, not to mention the waterfall, were pretty.

Under all the deer, is a cave, and inthe cave, is a huge bear standing up ready to attack. So of course everyone wants a picture with the bear.

Ya don't they look so excited? LOL

Steve was trying to get Matt up as high as the bear, but Matt didn't want to.

Hanging all voer the store from the ceiling are life sized replicas of fish and sharks and of course a huge humpback whale.

It would have taken me three shots to get the whole thing. I was up in gun ville looking down at fish town.

As your leaving, if you look up you see this:

Nothing says Welcome to New England better than a bunch of animals heads.