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mmm.. donuts at Kelowna International Airport

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mmm...donuts

Who wants to bet that sales of sweets will soon skyrocket at British Columbia’s Kelowna International Airport (YLW )?

A new exhibition opens there on Monday (November 8, 2010) featuring two large works by Kelowna-based realist painter John Hall.

One piece is full of licorice candies

John Hall_art

The other is filled with doughnuts.

Kelowna_John Hall

The yummy-looking paintings in the John Hall: Sweetness and Light exhibit will be on view through May 9, 2011 in the departures area of the Kelowna International Airport.

And you thought you were safe because Halloween was over….

Souvenir Sunday: cactus candy and lucky pigs

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Each Sunday here at Stuck at The Airport we take a look at some of the fun, ideally offbeat, items for sale at airports for about $10.  This week, Claire Stern sent along some items from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX). My favorites include some of the candies made by the Phoenix-based Cactus Candy Company which makes saguaro-shaped lollipops and this sweet, chewy Prickly Pear Cactus Candy.

And these three-legged chonchitos, which hail from from the village of Pomaire, Chile. They are supposed to bring good luck and are traditionally given to friends as a token of goodwill and love, but since they’re only $5.99 a piece, I’d probably buy a few for my friends and make sure to keep one for myself.

Have you had the good fortune to find a great souvenir while you were stuck at the airport? If so, please take a photo and send it along. It may end up featured on a future edition of Souvenir Sunday.