At 3:30 a.m. I drug Chris out of the bed because it would be un-American to miss the biggest shopping day of the year. The three oldest kids spent the night at Grandma's, so it was us and little baby Ava. She seemed puzzled when I woke her, changed her diaper and dressed her. Anyway, we loaded up and headed to Bristol. Why Bristol? We wanted to go to Wal-Mart and Target and avoid Tennessee sales tax, so Bristol was the obvious choice. At 5 a.m we were in Wal-Mart with thousands of other people that did not want to miss out on the "great" deals. The shopping carts were bumper to bumper, people were not friendly, babies were crying (including ours), and everyone there acted as if the world would come to an end if they failed to get the items they wanted. Chris gave up and took Ava to the car, I loaded the shopping cart with all the "great" deals and then trudged over 1/2 mile to the car with my purchases.
As if we did not learn our lesson we then headed to Target. It was a much more pleasant experience the people were friendly, Ava was happy and we got a few things that we really needed.
The early rise and marathon shopping caused us to need a big breakfast so we headed to IHOP for the world's best pancakes. They were delicious!!
We returned home exhausted, broke and determined that we would not be sucked into this idea next year!!
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