Visit Sea Gypsy Gifts for Marine-Themed Role Playing

Your sexual relationship with your partner or lover has become boring. The usual remedies don't seem to work anymore. What can you do?

Take a trip to Astoria, that's what! Watch the mighty Columbia River flow; drink endless amounts of craft beer and never drive a single block; scale the top of the Column and let the wind whip you around.

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Those might work. But you could also visit Astoria for some marine-themed role playing. Apparently, tourists are already doing it (dressing up as mermaids that is.)

I asked Naomi Peña, Astoria's premier mermaid costumer and owner of Sea Gypsy Gifts (1001 Commercial St.), if any tourist couples ever bought a mermaid outfit when they came into the shop or at her booth at the Astoria Sunday Market.

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"Sure," she said, kind of winking, certainly smiling. "It happens all the time. Why not?"

Why not indeed? What happens in Astoria stays in Astoria. That goes for mermaids, too. This Prohibition-era town was once Capitol Sin City with gambling, booze, drugs, brothels and shanghaiing. Maybe it's on the way back. I hope so. If mermaids are part of the answer, so be it.

Why not indeed? Come to Astoria, find Sea Gypsy Gifts, and Naomi will set you up in style.

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