Ah Black Friday has arrived!! Too bad the sales all sucked! It was bad because Keith had the day off work, and we had some extra money, but man the stores were not looking promising!
We had some decaf coffee the night before, but I think it's not truly decaf as I was up until almost 1am!
Got up at 3:30 to shower and Keith checked to see if an item I wanted was available online at WM, yeah it was!! No need to shop that store!! Headed to Kohls at 4:15. Walked in and around the store, saw the lines were from each side to the back and crossing and thought NO way was anything so needed that I would stand in line for over 2 hours for! Off to Yonkers. Usually I hit Yonkers at the end of my trip so I never see the door busters. Wow, they do start of with a ton of them! Got a couple things for the kids, used my $10 off $10 coupons and was out. Nice short lines!!
After that was Gordmans. They had some holiday plates I wanted to buy, although they were the same price today and they were the other day, so no big sale there. The first 300 customers got a bag that you could stuff and get 25% off! Of course it had it's exclusions, but I found a really cool red purse and wallet that counted! Plus a couple necklaces and stuffed some webkinz in as well. The big ones were $9.75 and the little ones were $5.65, so I grabbed a couple the kids wanted. Again the line was not too bad, maybe 20 minutes most!
Next was Dicks for the fun of it. Only picked up some toe warmers for this weekend. They had nothing else exciting...could explain why the store was dead and no waiting at any of the registers!
Headed to Staples. This was not a planned trip, but ended up being the most expensive one! They had some memory cards on sale I wanted for my camcorder and camera. Not needed, but nice to have more memory though! Check out lines were really crazy! Ended up getting the 19" monitor they had on sale (great price!), some dvr's, memory cards and ear buds for the kids. Even though the lines were long, everyone was calm and cool. I do think we left at the right time because the free printers you got with your camera purchase had just run out and there was lots of people in line waiting on them. Poor employees!
After Staples was the music store for their 7am opening. Ugh a line!! Only had to wait about 10 minutes, so not too bad. Picked up something for Salem, although have to check with his music teacher to make sure it will work with his instrument. Then on to Walgreens where I picked up a couple lil kinz for stuffers.
And then home for breakfast and a nap!
Later on, Keith went out for a bike ride and the boys and I headed to Family Christian Bookstore. They had some good deals and I needed to get a Bible for a girl we adopted through Salem's school. Ran into a friend of mine who works there, she said it was crazy in the am! We got our goodies (and a few more) and back home, just in time for Keith to get back.
We all went over to a HUGE craft show downtown this afternoon. Found some cool things, couple things for gifts, couple things I want to try and make myself. Kaden was bored by isle 2, lol. But he mustered through it all. Salem saw something he was interested in getting but decided to save his money. After the craft (or crap) show we got back in our car and was driving and heard a weird noise. Keith thought it was just a rock in the rim, but it stayed after driving a short time. So he pulled over and saw a screw was in our tire. UGH! We drove to a safer spot and was able to pull the screw out. It only jabbed into the tread, so that was good!! Darn downtown flooding and crap all over!
Now it was off to Coralville, had 2 hours to spare before it was Jingle Cross registration pick up, so we hit a couple malls. Nothing too exciting. I found a shirt and the boys each bought a webkinz. Otherwise it was just a time killer. Got through registration pick up just fine. Little crazy, but fun. We got to meet Todd and Tony Wells, pro bikers. They were there to sign autographs, so they signed the cow bell we got, the race numbers and Salem's t-shirt. Salem will swim in his, but figure it's his 1st year so we picked one up anyway.
And back home, quick yo-yo dinner everyone to bed! Busy exciting day tomorrow! Keith races in the morning, then the other HBA guy races in the afternoon and the Pro's race after that. So we'll be there all day! Sunday are Salem and Kaden's races. Probably won't stay for the pro race.
I've got a couple pics from tonight, but I'm so tired, I'll put them up tomorrow. Hope I didn't make too much nonsense in this post, eyes are falling alseep as I type, lol.
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