Lots of shopping

Yesterday morning me, LMS, Farm Boy and Cabbage Queen went to Walmart to stock up on snacks and LMS wanted to look at the clothing dept again. We spent ages wandering round and checking out all the aisles! But we now have cupboards bulging with snacks for everyone :-) When we got back Cabbage Queen tried to arrange for some of the local kids to go to the town swimming pool with the girls, but everyone was either busy or grounded!! So the girls ended up spending a couple of hours there together, and they didn't kill each other!! Which is a minor miracle lol. Apparently Drama Teen spent about half an hour swimming then she read her book, and LMS swam for an hour before reading. Both girls seemed to have had a good time when we picked them up. Me and Cabbage Queen went back down town and had a good look round at some of the shops we hadn't taken the kids in earlier. There are some lovley gift shops and I got a really nice coffee table book of photographs of the state :-) And some more bits and bobs for Little Prince's room. I even got an album for LMS to store her State Quarters in, which I wasn't looking for as I didn't know they made them lol. We also stopped off for a snack in the local cafe, although we could only finish about half of the HUGE chocolate chip muffin we shared!! We brought the rest home for Little Prince. While we did all this Mr Messy and Farm Boy took Little Prince out for a drive to the local farm/country store where they bought him a really cute cowboy hat :-) Mr Messy and Drama Teen have both decided they want one too, but haven't found one they like yet!! Little Prince didn't behave himself very well at all, and in the car park he hid himself on TOP of the tyre in a trucks wheel well!!! I have been having nightmares about that since Mr Messy told me - he could have got himself killed!!!! Arrgh!!!

In the evening we had a cookout :-) We had burgers, corn on the cob, crisps and chocolate digestives :-) It was lovely sitting out on the deck chatting and eating. Later on after I'd put Little Prince to bed we saw a fawn on the drive!!! We managed to tell the girls to come and watch without scaring it away, and so I went up to Little Prince's bedroom and got him too as he was still awake. He was thrilled at seeing Bambi in person and managed to stay quiet and still and watched it for ages :-) After he was soundly asleep Cabbage Queen took me and Mr Messy back to Walmart, as Mr Messy hadn't had a mooch around there yet. Despite a slow start he finally got into the swing of things and started throwing all sorts of stuff into the shopping trolley lol. I wouldn't let him buy either a gun or a hunting bow!! Even though they had them in Little Prince's size!!! When we got back to the house me and Cabbage Queen spent ages chatting and looking at photos of when their house was being built. Its fascinating seeing the different way houses are constructed over here - it was almost like watching an Airfix Kit being put together!! And it went up so quickly too!!