Black Friday this year happened to be on Riley Jo's 3rd birthday!! Black Friday happens to be my all time favorite shopping day because I love to shop for all the deals. My sister-in-law Jeannine and I had planned since last year to go to the outlets in Vacaville to start our Christmas shopping. They open up at Midnight. Plus, it is our tradition to go with my brother and Jeannine to Old Town Sacramento the day after Thanksgiving. So Jeannine picked me up at 10:30 pm on Thanksgiving night to drive to Vacaville. We checked into our hotel and took our bags into the room. We then set off to the Outlets to wait in line outside of KB toys. We then went around the different stores until 4:00 a.m. The line was worst at KB, after that we had to wait to get into GAP but we didn't have to wait in line to check out. Then we drove to Kohls where we had to wait in line for about 30 minutes to check out. By then it was 5:30 so we headed to Circuit City to do our shopping there. Again another long line to check out. We shopped for 5 minutes and waited about 45 minutes to check out. Now at 6:30 I've been awake for a full 24 hours falling asleep standing up, plus my back and legs are killing me! But we aren't done yet. We still have to go to Target. We decide as we walk into Target that now would not be a good time to get caffeine because we would want to go to sleep after this store. So we go into Target and are totally excited that it seems there is no line to check out. So we get our shopping done, a little bit slower checking our list twice to make sure we got everything we needed and head to the front to check out. To our surprise there is an extremely large line wrapped around the entire store! We must have been too tired to notice that line right! Did we forget it was Black Friday. Who misses out on this shopping day? So we finally leave the store and get back to the hotel at 7:30. Our husbands and my kids were meeting us at 10:30. Yes I only got 3 hours of sleep. I called Riley Jo while I was in line at Target to wish her a Happy Birthday because I knew she would be up. I decorated her room Thursday night before I left after she went to bed so she had a surprise to wake up to since I wasn't there. Then we went to Sacramento for the day. We rode the Santa train, went to the train museum, and ended our day at Candy Heaven as usual. Riley Jo said she had a really good birthday. I was asleep before we left the garage and slept all the way home. Then when I got home I slept for another hour and a half. I am sitting at this computer right now falling asleep. Good thing there is spell check and a delete button because WOW it is time for me to sleep.
