Black Friday Adventure
For the first time ever in our family, we pulled ourselves out of bed at 4:30 a.m.to participate in the American Tradition of Black Friday. For those of you who don't know what Black Friday is, it is the day after Thanksgiving when retailers open extra early with extra special deals.
We have wanted a pool table for the five years we have owned this house. Robert was sure he wanted a regulation size one. We have no room for that currently. My art area is in the space where a formal living room would go and our living room is in the room where a rec room would go. Our patio is still filled with wood from my two-year playground structure project. So he bent his will last night as he was looking at the ads and found a 6-foot table that turns into an air hockey table and has an attachment for becoming a ping-pong table. It normally ran around $400 dollars, but if we got to Sports Authority when it opened at 5:30, we could get it for $200 dollars.
We roused Gabriel. He was sleepy and adorable. Hannah still had a nurse till 8:00 so she got to sleep in. As we drove there, the roads didn't look so bad, and I doubted there would be a line (it is just Sports Authority after all).
The line stretched the mini mall. We got out of the car to stand in line. The people around us were counting how many were in line because there was also a deal for a free gift card with the first 100 people in the store. It was frigid out with a nice arctic breeze. Gabriel and I went back in the car to warm up while Robert waited in line.
Everyone was polite, and there was no mobbing. We got the table we wanted. The checkout line took 40-50 minutes though. All that was left was the fun world of assembly.
--Mom
