Friday Shop

One event I hadn't commented on in the aftermath of Thanksgiving was this year's Black Friday. For readers who are unaware, this is the day after Thanksgiving when there are typically huge discounts available on a wide number of items. Typically as we've been out in Arizona I haven't done a huge amount of this - there are fewer shops to go to, less deals and I've not actually been hunting for anything.

This year as we were still at Chrissi's parents, there are a lot more places to go in the area - and I had things I needed to get this year (namely a replacement jacket, as a large hole had developed in my old one - considering how many things are discounted and by so much in the sales, it was worth holding out for).

There were some events starting on the Thanksgiving evening itself - which we didn't partake in - but we did go down to Kohls for the Friday morning, as there were large discounts running until 1pm. We picked up a few items - a couple of jackets for myself, both heavily discounted, a few jeans and sweaters for Chrissi - and joined the queue at about 12. This was then our activity for the next hour - it wound most of the way around the store and we were waiting for about an hour before we finally got to the checkouts.

End result was a successful trip, but the hour waiting while we slowly walked around the store was mind-numbingly tedious.