Today we attempted a trip to REI to check out their "big sale".... Any time we try to shop it's a big gamble because we don't know how the children will be in the store... Nevertheless we still try it...often. Most of the time, we time it perfectly and they are pretty good throughout the store. Anyway, today must have been one of those off days...
The children were OK until we decided to move around the store to look at other things. I wanted to look at shoes and kids clothes and Corey wanted to look at some clothes for himself...but let's forget about our wish list and focus on what the children wanted to do... As soon as we said that we were going to move about the store, it was like something in their brains said "we want to stay right here in the bike section, but... if we move around the store maybe we'll just run around crazy"... There's nothing like the experience of shopping with two children under 3... their bodies flailing around as you carry them around narrowly missing smashing their heads on metal hangers, jumping off chairs, hiding in the clothes carousel, running around other kids and their parents. You really can't get any shopping done! We spent a good half hour running after them while looking at nothing. (nothing WE wanted to look at!) When we finally gave up and decided to check out we noticed that the line looped through the store...it must have been a hundred people long (at least!)
Needless to say, I left the store with the children and without merchandise...we left Corey to make our purchases...
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