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Visiting our new Bass Pro Shop      Aug 08

I went there as a gift to my son!

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It was my son's 11th birthday and he wanted me to take him to the Bass Pro Shop in Prattville to spend the afternoon after church. Now you might think that spending the whole afternoon in one store is quite a bit extreme, however, we are talking about the "Boy Toy Heaven" created by Bass Pro Shops (BPS). Yes, I could easily spend the whole day in that store! This store has it all. If you are into hiking, biking, hunting, camping, fishing, guns, bows & arrows, boots, boats, ATVs, scopes, clothing, books, candy, furniture, or just about anything else, they have it in this one store. This did not seem like an odd request from my son as he and I have never been in that store together. I had wondered up there once on my own and found it very difficult to get to the parking lot. I was on this little road marked with fish that seemed to be going nowhere. I finally got to the store but only had like an hour, so I didn't really get to see much. Now that I had my son with me, I figured out why the entry road was the way it is. He stated that it was like going to an amusement park. It sets the mood for he-man shopping. The path in to BPS is set up this way to make it seem as if you are leaving the city and entering the great outdoors via a trail instead of a road. OK, now I understand, and he knew exactly which way to turn at the end of this trail to get me to the close parking spots, also marked with fish painted on the asphalt surface. Now I'm all ready to shop and look. Sounds like some women I know!

The building is constructed like no other retail business I've ever seen. It looks just like a big cabin that you'd find up in the mountains. It has very large windows surrounded by green shutters and  logs positioned in such a way as to look like the building is made of nothing "man-made". Large stones provide a walkway, not that boring concrete like at Lowe's or Home Depot. Nope, this place is very different. As you enter the store, you see a living room set up that I'd love to have in my house. The only problem is that the fireplace at BPS is larger than my whole living room. It's a really nice room that makes you feel right at home from the very first second. My son ran right over and sat down on the overly large true leather couch and asked me to join him. It was a nice couch. Sitting here for a moment let me take it all in and remember that I was here more to enjoy and share the experience with my son. We really didn't have a time line nor anything in particular that we were looking to buy, so just sitting here for a while was very nice, not to mention that if you needed to see anyone who lives in Prattville, all one has to do is wait here for a short period of time and you'd eventually see them coming through the door. Yes, this is a popular place with the locals, of which I am one, and now I can see why.

I wonder if anyone knows just how many stuffed animals, excuse me taxidermist friends, I meant to say preserved, are in that store. Every where I looked I could see animals. Deer running down the side of a mountain, bears up on their hind legs, wolves, coyotes, rabbits, wild hogs, snakes, skunks, squirrels, birds of all kinds, and of course fish. The whole store is decorated like the wild out doors with the occasional old country store placed here and there. There is even an old green pickup truck parked inside. Not sure what year it is, but it looks like it belongs there. I was very impressed with the hardwood floors. I was raised in cotton mill village homes with all hardwood floors and these floors brought back so many memories. Just listening to the boards creak and pop as shoppers walked over them reminded me of many a cold mornings when I used to tip toe over the same kind of floor to get to the bathroom rug. Did you know you can smell a true hardwood floor? You sure can. Another thing that caught my attention was the very large beams that crisscross the sealing of the store. No, after really looking at the beams one can tell that they are constructed in pieces, probably as a wrapping over some sort of steal beam, but it sure looks authentic at first glance. If I were to ever win the lottery, since I don't have any rich relatives to leave me anything, I'd call the company or companies who go around building these stores and have them come and construct me a country cabin house, complete with everything I saw in the BPS store. Oh, and yes, I'd have a waterfall and a fish tank, just like the one they have and I'd fill mine with Bass, Catfish, Gar, and anything else that swims that I could catch. Hey, if I'm rich, I guess having a couple of very pretty girls in  camo bikinis to jump in and feed the fish twice a day wouldn't be out of my range either. I could sit there and watch those fish all day long. I like to watch them in their natural habitat and try to figure out why they won't bite the baits that I throw at them. I love the sound of a waterfall too, only one problem here, it makes me want to go to right to sleep. I figure this is why they don't put that big true leather couch or those big overstuffed chairs back by the fish tank. There is only a rock wall and a couple of park benches that don't look like they have any sleeping potential back there. Someone tried it at some point prompting the internal message to BPS managers to move the furniture away from the waterfall.

There is a very nice restaurant inside the store where one can get a very wide range of food types, like seafood, steaks, wild venison, salads, and of course deserts. Yep, my food groups are Meat, Taters, Non-squishy Seafood, and Deserts. BPS even has old time candies that you just can't find at Wal-Mart anymore. I love the Peanut Butter Logs and bought a bag to tote around  and nibble on  while I dreamed of all the stuff I wanted to buy or have someone buy for me.  I found it, the NASCAR section! Now I know I'm in heaven. Yes, I know BPS is very much involved in auto racing and I know who drives for them. I found some Dale Jr. stuff that I'd never seen anywhere else and with his new number and team on them. I'm adding these to my Birthday and Christmas list now. Now on to more discoveries.

[If a vegetarian eats vegetables, then I guess I'm a meatetarian. That would also make me a tatertarian too!]

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