Day 6

This is for Saturday, May 14, 2011

I had this day planned for quite sometime!  I knew I would be hanging with a friend that afternoon, and that morning I would dream sweet dreams to the awesome tunes of my snore!!!  I am happy to report that I was awakened with a much more important task...Volunteering and my nephew!!!

So we went to a place called HopeFaith Ministries to pass our clothes with my roomies church.  I was excited and so were my nieces and nephews, but unfortunately the agency was not excited to see them and made them sit down and not work.  This was frustrating for me, and I guess even more so for my roomie, as she told her church that she had to go if the kids could not help.  They understood and we left.

From there we went to the City Market.  The kids all had a dollar and they spent it on the first colorful thing they saw!  I think the adventures of the market will be best described but bullet points and images.

• They bought balloon animals

• We looked at the local vendors
• We watched a magic show
• We shopped
• We left
• We came home
• They went to the park
• I went to hang with my friend as planned

As odd as it may sound, I had to schedule time with my friend for us to hang out without my kids.  LOL!!! He had planned an entire afternoon of things for us to do and I must say, I was impressed.  We were headed toward downtown, and I wasnt sure why.  I had been craving an XTRA hot pickle and he surprised me by finding a place to get the exact kind I wanted.  (Yes, there are different types).  I was very excited to just smell the pickle!  From there we went to the city market and looked around a bit.  I mentioned that I like a wallet and to my surprise I now own that very wallet.  As we were leaving after having a great lunch, he surprised me with it!  Its awesome.  Being me I would only accept the wallet if he promised to take me somewhere fancy enough for me to carry it to.  Of course he agreed!  (yay me!) 

We had lunch at Winslows and it was pretty good!  I ordered these BBQ nachos that looked great, but deceived me, the chips were stale.  Their customer service was awesome, they replaced my meal for free!!! I had a free lunch!  LOVE IT!

We then went to Circus De Soleil.  I had never been and it was a pretty nice experience.  I fell asleep a couple time, but after that I was good.  From there we got frosty's and went to Hobby Lobby, one of my favorite places.

From here we headed home to prepare for Sunday!!!