That Black Friday Shopping

Its that time of year again. Its been a tradition that my mom started with me back before I even had kids to go out real early on black friday and hit the sales. So I have continued on with the tradition and went out once again. I decided this year to try and hit two stores real early. So I got up at 3:30am and got ready. I left the house around 3:45 and got there at 4am. The line at walmart was already wrapped around to the backside of the building. Where I stood was directly middle part of the back half of building. Obviously the economy didn't effect everyone's shopping too bad. I love doing this every year. I know the lines are crazy, but it gets me in the spirit. I always find people in line to chat with. We talk about our hot items we're going after, the years before that we have went and our experiances. This year I had a 3 generation group. There was a grandma, her daughter, and the granddaughter. They were alot of fun to chat with. The grandma kept giving her daughter such a hard time about things. The daughter was trying very hard to be serious and have a plan for the shopping, but grandma and grand-daughter just poked fun. The doors opened at 5, and I went in. I was able to find some of the stuff I wanted but not all. I quickly decided that I would purchase these things and continue with my other shopping. So I got out of there and headed for Target. I was in line and ready once again at 5 to 6am. So spent a couple minutes chatting with a few other people in line and then the doors opened. I was able to get everything I wanted in there except one dvd. One of Chelsey's items for christmas I went to get at the start and there was no more. So I continued with my shopping and then remembered I had to get one more thing up in the toy area, as I went back...They had re-stocked the shelves! So I was able to get her gift afterall. I was so happy. I was out of there and back home by 7:20am. Justin had just gotten up and the kids were starting to wake up too. After I told him how well I did, I slipped back to bed and slept for a couple hours....another black friday come and gone!