Shopping Trip

Today was the Girls Shopping Trip!! Shell, Tara, Crystal and I went to Michigan City, Indiana today to The Lighthouse Plaza mall. There were over 120 stores at this mall, and needless to say we had a great time. It was about three hours away...or four counting the hour we spent stuck in a traffic jam! However, with the four of us in the car together..even that was so much fun! We took the opportunity to crank up the radio and attempt to be the next big all female rock band. I'm sure it was a sight to see for the other cars next to us. We arrived at the mall at about 11:00, so all we wanted to do was get into a store. We had attempted to map out our game plan for the day on our way up...we even had a print out of the entire mall! However, after the first two stores, we decided we needed to fuel up first so we stopped for lunch. Leave it to us to want to eat first before shopping. After we ate, we jumped in with both feet. There was so many stores and so little time. It didn't take long before we realized we better pick up the pace and not go in every single store, otherwise we were never going to make it. However, we did pretty good. It was about 6:00 when we called it a day. This was after two trips to the car to dump off packages and bags of goodies. We knew we wanted to stop for dinner before leaving, so we headed out. We stopped at a Chili's on the way home, and recapped what a great day we had. It was so much fun and something we will definitely do again soon. By this time, we were all ready to get home and kiss the babies. So, Eureka couldn't have come soon enough. I couldn't beleive it, but no one slept on the way home...imagine that, we just talked the entire time! Great job girls...I thought I would be the only one awake for the three hour drive!! I had my camera, but only took one picture of Tara wearing some blue glasses...not sure she would have wanted me to post that on here, so I decided against it! Anyway, thanks girls...I had a ball!! Oh yeah, all the babies were alive when we got home...nice job Daddy!!!