What's happening in my playground: Girls...Shopping...and 3 days outta town!

Lisa, Rose and I planned for a few weeks to go south to the Layton Utah area and shop at Tai Pan Trading, Rod Works, Hobby Lobby, Kohl's, maybe a mall or two. Lisa scored us base housing so we had a room to rest our wearing feet after marathon shopping.

We arrived Friday evening, checked in and found TLF (temporary living facility in military lingo). We walked into a rather dark building, through the water sprinklers, and after we opened the door, realized there was no power. No electricity, with 3 chicks and luggage, and tired of driving and needing our sleep to power shop on Saturday. When given lemons we made lemonade (or in our case, purchased adult beverages at the base shopette). We found a deserted parking lot near TLF with a beautiful view of the lights of the Utah valley, we parked the truck, dropped the tailgate and enjoyed the evening with wine, beer, and Lays potato chips. The power was restored around 1130 pm just in time for us to get in a few zzz's.

Saturday we started early at Tai Pan, and spent 3 1/2 HOURS looking, touching, and making HARD decisions of what we needed. My main goal was to buy for Suzanne's new home since she has had her hands full with Allee and not much time to get her house decorated since they moved in the week before Allee M was born (yes, I was given a budget and prayed I stayed within her budget). We spent 13 hours out and about, shopping, eating and enjoying ourselves! We got back to TLF, tired but continued our girl chats until 1:30 am. We had SO much to talk about I guess, and laughed til our bellies hurt. The plan was to hit a big new mall on the way out of Utah this morning, but after checking our receipts and how much damage we did with our cash, we headed back to Idaho. Happy with our finds, but ready to get back to reality.

Great food, great deals, but more importantly, great friends! It was a great weekend!

The pick-up was loaded, and barely enough room for our luggage. We drove Fred's L O N G bed Ford F-350 one-ton pick-up thinking we had plenty of room...