Blickenstaff's Candy

The other day, Kelsey and I went to the Gateway mall in Salt Lake City for a genius bar appointment at the Apple store. We walked up to the store, only to find it boarded up. What? Turns out the Apple store moved to City Creek and now the Gateway is Apple-less. Through tears we decided to wander around Gateway anyway. Boy, I'm glad we did. We discovered, much to our delight, Blickenstaff's Toy and Candy Shoppe (this is way more classy than the American "Shop").

Blickenstaff's - World's Best Candy and Toy Shoppe

Check out their website: http://www.blickenstaffs.com/

Kelsey and I are giving presents to my brother's family this year - that includes two little girls under the age of 8. This place was just what we needed to decide what we should get them. They have walls full of candy, shelves full of toys, sock monkeys bigger than Kelsey, lego sets of every variety, and everything kids (and adults alike) dream of at Christmas time. Heck, I found all sorts of things I would love to get for Christmas. Huge stuffed animals hang from the ceiling along with toy planes, bicycles, and hula-hoops. Blickenstaff's is surely a place where kids (and adults) will reminisce of Christmases of yesteryear. Kelsey and I stocked up on some sour apple gummies (yes, we still eat gummy candies), sour grapefruit gummies, and some strawberry and cream gummies. They were gone before we got home.

Will we head back to Blickenstaff's? Absolutely YES. We will be going back to buy gifts for our nieces and stocking stuffers for the rest of the family.