Black Friday

Alright. I got cookies in the oven baking, and the boys (Chris, Chris's Dad, and Dan) are downstairs watching football, so I wanted to share with all of you, my very first Black Friday shopping experience. About a month ago, I decided that I wanted a camera for Christmas. A nice one. Not one of those cheap little ones. A good one. So when the ads for Black Friday came out, I was really excited to see that Target had a good one for $100! Chris and Jared and I went and spent it with Stephanie and her family. I made a sweet potato casserole (found the recipe on Pinterest!) cause if there aren't sweet potatoes, then its not a real holiday! :) We ate lots of food and visited for a while, then went home and played Fat Dog. If you don't know what Fat Dog is, then just ask. My family loves to play on Thanksgiving and Christmas :) I figured that Target would get pretty busy so I wanted to get there early to get a good spot in line. Chris wanted to watch part of the football game, so I went over at about 7pm, and Chris got there at about 8:45pm. I was pretty close to the door so that made me really excited! I wanted that camera! I was around some pretty nice people so the time went really fast from getting to talk to someone. Once Chris got there, he took my spot in line and I took the car to go to the bathroom and get us hot chocolate. It was starting to get super cold! By 10pm, the cold was too much to bear. My toes felt like they were going to fall off! So I went and sat in the car for a little bit, then it was Chris's turn to find a bathroom, and then it was finally count down till Midnight!

Right before it was time for the store to open, a bunch of people started arriving and lining up across from the entrance. So when they started letting us people who had been waiting for hours in, all those people tried to run in with us! We all stopped and started yelling at them to get to the back of the line, and security had to come out and push them back so they wouldn't cut in line. I got scared! I just tried to stay against the wall of the store and waited for our turn to go inside. Once inside, it got real exciting!! We walked as fast as we could (since apparently we weren't allowed to run), to the back of the store to where my camera was. It was hilarious! We saw this itty bitty girl trying to drag a HUGE TV down the aisle. Big men pushing carts with toys in them. And pushing through the ipod people so I could get my camera.....but, I GOT IT! There werent' many left so I was so excited to get my name on one of those boxes! After we paid for it, we went to go look at their cheap movies, but I didn't feel like it was worth standing in the huge line again to pay $2 for a movie. So we left. It was almost 1am and I was ready for bed!

When we woke up the next morning we went and had a yummy breakfast at Perkins and then braved the mall. It was crowded of course but Chris got some new church shoes that he had been wanting for a long time, and I bought some new jeans at American Eagle. So overall, it was a good Black Friday! Not sure if I want to do it again.....we'll see what kind of deals they have next year! :)