Monday 08 October (Columbus Day)
Woke up as normal routine and decided it was time for another shopping trip. I had actually forgotten it was the Columbus Day weekend and some bargains would be waiting for me!
I decided on the short trip over to the 192 as I wanted to go to a certain store so I left the house around 11.
The Columbus Day holiday tends to be celebrated more up in New York and the likes but I was surprised to find out the kids were not off school in our neck of the woods and infact Florida wide.
I had not eaten breakfast so decided to treat myself to some food before the spree began as it was a family anniversary today so thought I would have a wee celebration, so I toddled off to Bob Evans for lunch but ended up having my first hot breakfast since arriving 10 days before but just a small one with a couple of pancakes but being good I only ate 1! I of course had to have my banana bread so bought a loaf to take away for a later treat!
Fed and watered and ready for the onslaught I headed to Joanne’s (Huge craft store) as I wanted to pick up some bits and pieces and of course they had some good deals on some of the things because of the holiday so I was in there for about 3 hours. I have a Singer machine back home but looking for one to use in the US, needless to say I came out with everything but the sewing machine as I want to do a bit more research. The receipt was so long I was almost embarrassed!
Next it was off to Marshalls for a bit of Xmas shopping, I ended up buying more stuff for myself (not the plan), some stocking fillers and some kitchen and knick knacks for the villa.
Around 2 hours later I was off to Super Target, it was now around 1800 so last shop for today, goodness I had not even managed to get out of the one strip plaza today.
After a couple of hours in Super Target, where I got some nice things in the garden centre I hit the store and picked up some more Xmas pressies in the electronics dept and they also have a lot of nice knick knacks to, also remembered I also had to so some grocery shopping and oh I was starving again after my marathon shop so I headed off to the tills via the deli and picked up some on the go grub and ended up scoffing it at each traffic light I had to stop at as by this time it was after 2000 and I just couldn’t wait.
I got back home and was too tired to unpack the car as it was full to the brim again: trunk, back seats and passenger seat! I just about managed to get the groceries into the fridge and spent the rest of the evening watching TV and resting my weary legs.
Woke up as normal routine and decided it was time for another shopping trip. I had actually forgotten it was the Columbus Day weekend and some bargains would be waiting for me!
I decided on the short trip over to the 192 as I wanted to go to a certain store so I left the house around 11.
The Columbus Day holiday tends to be celebrated more up in New York and the likes but I was surprised to find out the kids were not off school in our neck of the woods and infact Florida wide.
I had not eaten breakfast so decided to treat myself to some food before the spree began as it was a family anniversary today so thought I would have a wee celebration, so I toddled off to Bob Evans for lunch but ended up having my first hot breakfast since arriving 10 days before but just a small one with a couple of pancakes but being good I only ate 1! I of course had to have my banana bread so bought a loaf to take away for a later treat!
Fed and watered and ready for the onslaught I headed to Joanne’s (Huge craft store) as I wanted to pick up some bits and pieces and of course they had some good deals on some of the things because of the holiday so I was in there for about 3 hours. I have a Singer machine back home but looking for one to use in the US, needless to say I came out with everything but the sewing machine as I want to do a bit more research. The receipt was so long I was almost embarrassed!
Next it was off to Marshalls for a bit of Xmas shopping, I ended up buying more stuff for myself (not the plan), some stocking fillers and some kitchen and knick knacks for the villa.
Around 2 hours later I was off to Super Target, it was now around 1800 so last shop for today, goodness I had not even managed to get out of the one strip plaza today.
After a couple of hours in Super Target, where I got some nice things in the garden centre I hit the store and picked up some more Xmas pressies in the electronics dept and they also have a lot of nice knick knacks to, also remembered I also had to so some grocery shopping and oh I was starving again after my marathon shop so I headed off to the tills via the deli and picked up some on the go grub and ended up scoffing it at each traffic light I had to stop at as by this time it was after 2000 and I just couldn’t wait.
I got back home and was too tired to unpack the car as it was full to the brim again: trunk, back seats and passenger seat! I just about managed to get the groceries into the fridge and spent the rest of the evening watching TV and resting my weary legs.