Today was so much different than we anticipated! Usually, Saturday holds a relaxed day of shopping the box stores in Sound Common and taking our precious time. Someone tipped us off, however, to the fact that there was a brand new outlet mall just south of us! So we spent our morning doing the box stores and decided to go find lunch and some new fun at the outlet mall!
Guys. That mall was completely unreachable!
We drove until we hit intersections controlled by police, as well as many traffic controllers in reflective vests. It was a HUGE ordeal. We were directed past a sign that indicated that the parking lot was full, and saw in the distance a MASSIVE mall with a MASSIVE parking lot, filled to the brim with vehicles. We waited and waited and were eventually directed to the back of an overflow parking lot. When we finally parked, Jerilee and I were both exhausted.
Factors:
I had to pee SO badly.
We hadn’t eaten lunch yet, and it was around 2:30pm.
It was HOT, and the slow putt-putt driving hadn’t helped keep the car cool.
We were quite sore already from all of our walking yesterday and this morning.
I’m pregnant, and while I hate to admit it, I wear out a tad faster than average.
So sadly, we decided to scrap all of our efforts and leave. It would’ve been a solid half hour walk at least with a full bladder on an empty stomach with sore feet. We made a new plan.
Once we were back in familiar territory, we stopped at Subway and had a much-needed break. From there, we hit our usual day-three store, and we did Ikea! Ikea was incredibly successful, and a lot of fun! But as you’d expect, we were bushed.
We headed back to our hotel for a dip in the hot tub and a well deserved rest! We lay in our beds and killed some time on our phones for a good long while, just resting our bodies and our brains. It felt great. We finally dragged ourselves up one last time and went to Boston Pizza for supper. While the food was amazing, as it always is, we are both SO happy to be back in our room with our achy feet up!
While we shopped our faces off, Brady has been busy at home! I want to tell you guys all about it but I want to include a bunch of pictures and do a really good job, so I think I’ll save it for when I’m home and can be a bit more organized. But the kids were out and about a lot today, and Brady’s been working on a few projects too 🙂 LOTS to catch up on!
I miss my amazing husband and my beautiful little babies, but tomorrow will come soon enough! Hopefully not TOO soon, because I think Jerilee and I are going to try to get to that new outlet mall again! Maybe if we go early enough, we’ll at least be able to park in the closer parking lot. And it’ll be our first stop of the day, so inevitably we should be more energized, right?? I hope so!
Sleep deep, all! I know we will!