So I’m posting mid vacation. Don’t judge me.

Just a quick update to let you all know we’re in Pittsburgh.  We left Thursday morning at the respectable time of 10 am. That’s what I like about being the age I am.  As a kid, I was always hauled out of bed at a ridiculous hour like 6 just to get an early start on the day.  I’m guessing once we have our own kids, we’ll have to do the same thing.  Probably because it will just take THAT much longer to get anywhere when you’re stopping every hour to pee and eat a snack.   Also – because I think there’s probably a secret book of rules you receive once you’re a parent, and one of those rules is “get your kids up at the crack of dawn whenever you go on holidays”.  I’m not sure, but I’ll let you know once I have kids. 

So, until that happens, Ben and I are just two adults, in our mid-twenties, with no real agenda and the open road ahead of us. So we slept in and got rolling eventually.  It was nice. 

So far it’s been a great time away.  We went shopping on Thursday at Grove City (Outlet Mall extraordinaire).  And people, I think I conquered my record of shopping, since we were at it for 6 and half hours.  If you know me at all, you’ll know that shopping isn’t my favourite thing in the world.  I don’t mind it, and can enjoy it for a bit, but then I reach a certain point where I JUST.DON’T.CARE.ANYMORE.  It is usually at this point that I start telling Ben that whatever it is he wants to buy is probably fine and he should just GET IT ALREADY.  (He’s a thorough shopper, what can I say?).  I also am not a big fan of spending lots of money.  Probably because we don’t have any.  (well, we have some, but not so much of the expendable kind) Thankfully, we didn’t have to spend our money.  Thanks to the flood of ‘09 (Ok, I realize we’re still in 2009, but doesn’t it make it sound like more of an historic event?), we lost quite a few clothes (which may or may not have been on the floor and not hung up like they should have been..). Good ol’ insurance came through for us again and we have a bit of money to spend to replace our lost items.   It made buying a more fun process. 

Grove City was kind to us.  We got deals.  Good ones and lots of them, of the “Pennsylvania-has-no-tax-on-clothes” variety . Would you believe me if I told you we only got through half of the stores?  We’re going to go back on our way out of town just to make sure we don’t miss out on any clothes that were just begging to make their way back to Canada with us.  I’ll keep you posted.

We had a great day yesterday exploring the city.  There will be stories and pictures to come – but since this is our anniversary trip, you can probably expect that I’ll have better things to do than post more blogs. 

See you next week!