Black Friday

It has become a tradition that every year Andy, Cassie & I go out at 10pm on Thursday night after Thanksgiving to witness the madness (or at least the beginning) of Black Friday. People are crazy. Seriously. 

Andy had it all planned out where we would go and the deals we would see..it was awesome until we stopped at our first destination: Walmart. Absolute chaos. So we skipped out on that store and went to Target and then the mall to see the midnight openings. I have to admit at one point in Target, I was hiding out in the card section while Cassie and Andy were digging through the mountains of DVDs. Thank goodness no one wants to buy cards on Black Friday.

 The mall was pretty packed. Andy and I went to slower stores like Vanity, where I bought a scarf, & Eddie Bauer, where everything was still overpriced; while Cassie and Brooke were first in line at the stores with the good doorbusters. By the end of the night Andy & I were eating Auntie Anne's pretzel bites waiting for Cass and Brooke to get done shopping. We were so over Black Friday. But what a night. Here's a few observations I made from this crazy night. 

1. Don't bring your baby Black Friday shopping with you. It's just not nice. 

2. Probably shouldn't go Black Friday shopping if you're unable to walk without assistive equipment (e.g.crutches).
3.  Singing cards are very entertaining and helpful if you get claustrophobic.  
4. No deal is worth the wait in a line that wraps through the entire store.
5. Bring your baby home and put it to bed! Please.

6. People are freakishly patient. Holy lines batman. 

7. Even if you're early, you're probably too late. 

8. People are crazy.

(We went out on Thursday after Thanksgiving dinner as a family and bought a tv just hours before Walmart was a war zone.) 

Girls are crazy about their shoes.