Black Friday Firstie!!

Yes, I am ugly at 2 am in the morning, what did you expect??? :0)Old Navy
Walmart
Target

I have never done black friday shopping before, the waking up in the middle of the night and standing with other insane people in the freezing cold, but I wanted to experience it this year! I was going to try to get the Lego RockBand game free at old navy, but, that didn't happen. I went with my friend Laura and it was a blast!! We got up at 130, thats right, AM, and headed off to Old Navy in AF to stand in line with my other friend Robyn, who was there with her daughter. We got there at about 155 and stood in line til 3 am, then it was a mad dash into the store to find some great deals!! There were people everywhere and everyone was grabbing stuff, it was seriously the craziest thing I have ever seen. After about a half hour we got into line and it took us a little over an hour to get through it, it wound through the whole store. CRAZY what people will do to save a few bucks( im not quite that crazy!) I just wanted the experience of it and to see the people. So at 440 it was off to walmart, where they let everyone into the store ( after that man got trampled to death last year) and wrapped everything up in saran wrap. So people are standing around what they want ready to grab it as soon as it was opened up. At 5 am we just happened to be walking by the Nintendo DS gaming kits when it was opened and it was like shark frenzy!! People were grabbing and pushing....it was crazy! My friend Laura grabbed one just because everyone else was, and it ended up being a good thing, cuz it was a great deal!! Laura wanted to see if she could get the 98$ Nintendo DS so we went and stood in the line for it. This mother with her little boy ( about 8 or so) got into line behind us, he was so excited! His mom told us that he had been saving his money to buy a DS and that with this deal he could afford to get it. Well, with about 10 people in front of us they ran out of DS's. The look on that little boys face broke my heart as he buried his face into his moms arm and started crying. I knew that look on his moms face, the hurt she was feeling on behalf of her little boy who had worked so hard and waited for this. If any of those people in front of us had had a heart they would have given up their DS to that little boy. But no one did. Even as I write about it now I am tearing up for that sweet little boy. Life just isn't fair sometimes.

But after wandering for 20 minutes or so we got into line with Lauras sister. I found a few more good deals and we waited a little over an hour in line at Walmart. Then we were off to Target. We got there too late to get any of their good deals, but still ended up finding a few good things. Another line, another wait for about an hour. When we went into Target it was still pitch dark and when we got out it was light!! Time to go home. I walked in the door at 8 am just as kaleb was walking out to go to work.

It was such a fun experience. Next year we will bring food and drinks and blankies ( i was starving by the time we got to walmart) but we are planning on doing it again. Not because we are crazy and are trying to beat people up to get that one great deal :0) but because it was a fun experience!!!