I think the parking lots were worse than being inside. Though we're not the "get to the closest spot" people, so I'll start at the back of the lot and just park. I'm not interested in fighting over a patch of concrete.
We managed to control ourselves at Costco...almost went crazy with the end of the budget for this month, but actually put those two movies away. Whew.
I couldn't believe how many took their kids to TRU on xmas eve! I thought we would be the only ones who did that. But nooooo. Definitely not alone. We spent a lot of time in the
Lego section, and it was the first time we had DH's work iphone with us...my goodness were they charging a premium! There were almost no lego sets that were the same or less in the store as *anywhere* online, and we got those few sets that DS wanted. They charge CRAZY prices.
It's also amazing how many people were in the Lego section, having NO idea what they were looking for. Xmas eve, they'd done no research about the sets they were asked for!
This one lady was looking for a Batman set. This was the kid's one request. A quick wiki look shows that the line started in '06, and nothing new has been made since '08, and it's discontinued. A quick check on buying sites shows that some sets are going for over $500!
Oh and these were not people for whom internet is a newfangled invention...these were people my age, who certainly could have powered up their computers to check it out. (then again, so could the kids who were requesting these things!)
So anyway, it was a bit of a madhouse.
Heard this very Amy Winehouse looking young woman saying something like "people of my generation are very easily amused by things without, you know, harddrives attached".... That made me go "hmm", and I asked Robert in a whisper, what generation is that? is she over 50? Though in the writing, maybe she was saying that they were actually amused, as in laughing at, things without harddrives. It was very odd, no matter what.
DS now has a bike.
Thank you lovely aunt and kind uncle!
Hubby is, right now, on an airplane getting ready to head off to places unknown (they just boarded). OK I know 'em, but let's not talk about it, shall we? Flight was oversold, next flight tomorrow, this is only 4 nights long, he's gotta go, got permission to buy Business Class upgrade. He just messaged me from his phone..."just got champagne, sorry you're not with me". Stinkin' companies, not paying for wives and children traveling with employees....dagnabit.
He'll be getting a couple days off when he gets back, which is nice, since he absolutely gave up his weekend for this.
But again, the agency doing his travel is just insane. On a trip like this, you do NOT book the airline that has ONE flight out per day. Another airline had 3 flights per day, and the earliest was the cheapest...they should have booked that one. But they are so into their "must book through codeshare" stuff that they can't see sanity. They saved a few bucks, but now it's cost much much more for the upgrade. Would have been much easier to book the little bit more expensive, first flight of multiple flights (just in case of being bumped) that day, flight. Although I'm intimidated by booking his flights, I think I can do a better job than their agency can!
And, of course, let me mention that January will see me buying an admission ticket for one of us for the WDW Trip! Woo!
I know, since I AM one. I get some funny looks sometimes, until we actually take the trip and then everyone is thanking me for making the trip so great and stress free. 
