Thank You, New York!

Heading out to NY

Smart guy - made the travel time seem very short!

Heading into the USA

The BEST STORE EVER!!!

Pizza Hut for supper

Kaedo's Supreme Lovers Pizza

Sterling's Pepperoni Lovers Pizza

Our Sampler

All the gear we brought home!

Cereal, Cereal and more Cereal

Craig's $10 football gloves

Books I stocked up on

Kaedo's gum

Thank you, New York, we had a lovely time visiting your fair state. Too bad your customs agents are such assholes.

We had the best day yesterday. We got up early and headed out - we were on the road by 9:15am - and were on our way to the land of Target and much to our surprise, a fantastic outlet mall.

We got to the border, with the use of our handy GPS, at 11:15am and waited 75 minutes to get through. The guy was a real jerk but what can you do? You would think they would be extremely accommodating of people heading into their country willing to spend their money, but apparently they like the status quo of their economy. Go Figure.

Target is only about 10 minutes past the border in Niagara Falls, NY, and so we were there in no time. We spent about 90 minutes looking around and stocking up on some things we don't have here. Sterling got a computer game we had had no luck in finding in Canada, Kaedo got some gum and some soda he had never tried, Craig got the deal of the day with a $12.99 pair of 'wrinkle resistant' dockers and I stocked up on books that were half the Canadian price. From there we headed to the outlet mall we had seen coming in and Craig spent some time in both the Nike Outlet and Under Armour Outlet stores. He was able to pick up some football gloves for $10 a pair and both he and Sterling picked up some Under Armour gear. We then stopped at this trendy shoe store and Kaedo got a new pair of shoes. From there we headed to WalMart to pick up some cereal we can't get here. We were looking for a specific one "S'Mores", that Kaedo fell in love with when we went to Florida. We weren't successful but we did pick up some other kinds the boys wanted to try. Needless to say, we are good for cereal for the time being.

We left WalMart and headed back to Canada as Kaedo had a Bulk Barn coupon for 25% off that was expiring yesterday and he had to stock up using his gift card he got from amma and baba. We GPSed Bulk Barn and got there in plenty of time for him to do his shopping. By the time that was over we were all starving, so we stopped in at Pizza Hut and enjoyed a fun dinner reliving our day.

We got home at 7:34pm (exactly the time our GPS told us we would) and then spent the rest of the evening hanging out. It was a fantastic day. Oh, and did I mention that we did not have to pay any duty??? The border guard on our end asked us how much we spent and when we told him he told us to have a good day and let us through. What a bonus!

Thanks to everyone who gave us Christmas money - we certainly enjoyed spending it!