Day after Thanksgiving

I hope that everyone had as nice of a Thanksgiving as I did! Yesterday morning I got up to cook a dessert that I was taking to Thanksgiving and then at about 12:15pm we finally headed over to Ryan's parent's house for Thanksgiving. There were 14 of us there enjoying lunch together. The food was absolutely amazing!!! I hate WAY more than I intended but I just couldn't help it. The food was yummy!! After lunch we chatted with family, played ping pong, and badmitton. Too soon it was time for us to leave because I was leaving to go to Jacksonville for the night. I went to spend the night with Debs and I got there about 7:30pm or so. We spent some time working on stuff for her wedding (favors and centerpieces) and then we got out all of the sales ads and marked what items we were looking for, where they were, the store hours, and the easiest driving routes. I went to bed about 1:00am and at 4:30am it was time to get right back up and head out for our day after Thanksgiving shopping!! On our way to our first store (Wal-Mart) we found a Starbucks that was open...it was 4:45am!!!!!! We got some coffee (which was soooo necessary at that point!!) and went in to throw some elbows in Wal-Mart. :-) We ended up not having to throw elbows - but not only does it take time to make the plan of attack the night before but it also takes some planning inside the store. We needed a cart for our purchases so we'd find a spot for Debs to stand with the cart and I'd weave and swerve in and out of the crowds and search for the deals that we were there for. Um, hello, they had Hannah Montana dolls and High School Musical dolls for $5 each. That was worth getting up at 4:30am all by itself!!! We were out shopping from 4:45am until about 1:15pm and that is when we finally made it back to her house for a brief break.

It was time to leave again at 1:40pm because we had a 2:00pm appointment at David's Bridal to order my dress for her wedding. We got the dress ordered and it will be in sometime in January!

After that we went back to her house and I left at about 2:45pm to head back to Gainesville. That was a llllooooonnnngggg hour and a half drive back when I was going on just three and a half hours of sleep and shopping all day!!!