Shopping Shopping Shopping

From 10am till 5pm that is what we did....no down time either unless you count eating lunch...but I don't...it's just like refueling your car. I was able to cross 5 people of my list today which was nice. The only place that was SUPER crowded was the mall. In one of the stores I bought only 1 item and I got 2 really awesome things for free with my purchase! After the mall is when the fun really began. We had 45 minutes to pick up a pizza (uncooked) from WinCo and head home before we would be cut off by the parade and before the Mayweather vs. Hatton fight began.....Well, things didn't go according to our plan:

1. Time = 5:40
2. They said the pizza would be ready in 10 minutes
3. They lost our pizza order tag.
4. 30 minutes later, we got our pizza
5. Time = 6:10....and the parade started at 6:00
6. Get about a mile from home and we get turned around
7. A new route = A new detour
8. Nancy calls and gives me the tractor parade route.
9. Follow car that appears to know where they are going.....They don't
10. End up lost on a dead end street.
11. Wind up seeing a beautifully decorated house....It had snowflakes and was mainly blue and white lights
12. Find our way back to the main street just past the detour
13. Hit another blocked off street.....the one I need to turn on to get home.
14. Then suddenly!.......The tractor parade!!!!
15. Turned off the car and watched the parade with the pizza dough rising from the heat in the car
16. Made our way home with the help of some very nice vehicles who let us cross major traffic to turn left

Result: We were able to grab dinner, watch the parade (which I really wanted to do), and make it home in time for the fight....Actually, the main fight hasn't even started yet because there is 3 fights before it. And the moral of the story is......Everything happens for a reason.......It all worked out in the end you see!

Only 17 days left to make Christmas cookies!