Why Do We Love Yankee Candle?
Why has Yankee Candle become one of our "Kid's Pick" places for Williamsburg?
It's a huge building housing a quaint little indoor "town." Looking a bit like Mayberry USA, it's designed to look like a series of shops around a town square.
Candle-lovers: We really don't need to talk you into this, do we? Suffice it to say, your only problem may be choosing from their huge selection.
In addition to shops selling any candle-related thing you can think of, there is a toy store and a cafe offering sandwiches, coffee and yummy desserts.
Want to see it snow indoors? Walk through the Christmas shop and you just might see "snow" fall from the starry night sky (you decide how they do it!)
For a memorable and inexpensive souvenir, the dip-your-own-candle-shop lets you buy white candles in different shapes and then dip them in colored, liquid wax to create your own candle design.
The highlight for kids is the mouse show in the "town square." At the top of each hour the clock face "talks" and opens up to reveal animatronic mice perfoming a fun song.
Tip: Bring your lunch with you, pull up one of the elegant, wrought-iron chairs in the courtyard, sit under the blue "sky" and enjoy the clock show for a totally fun and cheap experience you'll want to do again and again.
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