We got up Saturday morning and decided we needed to make a shopping run to Billings. This is a first for us. We have always lived in an area where you could get pretty much anything right at your finger tips. Not so here in Colstrip. We have a smallish grocery store, an Ace Hardware (that sell fabric. Have you ever heard of that?), a Subway and a video store. Everybody shops in Billings (120 miles away) or there is a Walmart in Miles City (80 miles away) and best of all there is a variety resturants. Anyway we left the house at about 10am - it was snowing- in April and headed for the big city. We had a mission to complete.
First stop: TARGET - looking for winter type clothes because it is still winter out here. Melena got some long sleeve shirts.
Second stop: Lunch at Fuddruckers because by the time we got to Billings it was lunch time and we were hungry after shopping at Target.
Third stop: LOWES - Buying paint for the house because we are painting the basement as the workmen get it ready for us.
Fourth stop: WALMART - My idea of hell - to crowded and crazy but you can't beat the prices and we had to stock up on food until our next run to Billings.
Fifth stop: BEST BUY - because I forgot to look for a vacuum at Target or Walmart and I wasn't going back to either store. I found a nice little canister vac. and was made happy.
Sixth and final stop: COSTCO - We need our food in bulk - Think 2 weeks before we get back to Billings. We also found Melena a nice winter jacket. That was a lucky find because all the spring and summer clothes are in stock now.
By the time we were done shopping we just wanted to get home and remember we took all the kids with us. You know what happens when kids get tired of shopping - they start touching and annoying each other and that in turn annoys their mom and dad and then we are sorry that we brought them with us and then we remember that we live 2 hours from Billings and there is no way we are leaving our kids home alone and be that far away from them without a responsible adult babysitting but we are too new to town to know any adults well enough to leave are kids with them and then what is we got in an accident, or snowed in or something. Oh no the kids are shopping with us and so we suffer through our first shopping run to Billings. Thankfully its a once or twice a month occurrence. (Hopefully).
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WoW...you guys are remote! Thank heaven for the internet so we can share your adventures :)
Glad you liked the pics. Toni is way excited, she is on her weekly count down now. May 3rd.
I emailed lacey your email address. She is brand new to the blogging seen.
love reading your shopping adventure. We can't wait to come and see you up there, but we definitely will wait till there is no snow. Though it doesn't sound like we will get very far this year. The house is in need of repairs. which is where all the extra will go and to pay off some bills. Love you all. I will forward a couple of mitch's last emails. your email didn't change did it?
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