Unexpected Surprises....

Before the cocktail party last week, I went to the States and bought a dress.  I came home at about 10:00p.m. and was modelling the dress for Chris.  I was doing my token 'spin' when I realized there was something on the side of the dress.  When I found what it was, I realized that it wasn't just 'something' - it was in fact the ink-stain security tag!  Yep, they forgot to take it off.

Sooo.... back to the mall we all went the next night, which just happened to be a Friday.  I had the tag removed and we did a little shopping.  We were having dinner in the food court, when we noticed a sign saying that Santa was arriving at the mall that night at 7:00p.m.   I looked at my watch and noticed it was already 5:45, so I whispered to Chris: "I think we should stay for Santa."

Chris (aka Scrooge re-incarnate) physically winced but agreed.

So we puttered around until 7:00 and then went and grabbed some seats for a pretty cool magic show.

 Yep, I had the two little ladies on my lap the entire time!!!  Can you say sore butt?  All in all it was an awesome night, and the kids were beside themselves that they got to see a magic show AND Santa.

Now that the feel-good part of the blog is over, I had to include this picture of the car next to ours in the parking lot that night:

I sh!t you not, the car didn't have a hood, and whatever was left of the hood, was being held on with tie-down straps!! We're thinking of submitting it to peopleofwalmart.com