Balloons and Shoes

We had to go to the store tonight.  I hate going to the store on Mondays after work because I am usually sooooooo tired after working all day but it was okay.  At one of our stops the girls tried on shoes that were way to high and they were so funny.  They tottered around Payless and had fun but we finally left because the manager was having a phone conference on speakerphone while we tried to shop around her. She was ensconced in aisle 2 and just kind of hovered there instead of taking her call to the back.  She did not appreciate that we were trying to look at shoes during her conference and we did not appreciate that we had to shop for shoes while pretending we had taken an oath of silence.  So we went to Shoe Carnival.  Wow!  No sales there.  The lowest price shoes I could find that the girls liked were $40 a pair and that is just too much for shoes for a 9 and 10 year old.  AND--they were apparantly re-stocking the store and down every aisle were boxes of shoes and employees on chairs re-organizing the stacks.  Could not navigate there so we moved on.  Next to Target where we had to pick up a variety of items.  By that time I was over the shoe shopping but we trudged to the shoe department with our buggy of junk. A young lady was cutting through the shoe department at a jog and suddenly out of nowhere the Target Shoe Police appeared and began screaming at her to stop running.  Needeless to say I was afraid for my life as I began to look at the strange assortment of sandals, some of which looked like the Romans were invading with the aid of a zipper up the back of the heel. The Shoe Police-Lady kept popping around the corner giving me evil glares and straightening the shoes I had just put back on the shelves.  But I did not feel like toying with her so we packed it up and left the shopping behind us.  Along the way tonight the girls got a balloon each, both blue for Kentucky.  When we got home they decided to let them go.  So we got one of their dad's business cards and wrote a short note on the back and, after shortening the string so it would not tangle on trees and wires, they let them go.  Instead of shooting up the way we expected, both balloons took off South and stayed together until they were out of sight.  The girls were so excited and wondered where their balloons would go and who would see them.  They want whoever finds them (if they are found) to call or email and tell them where they ended up.  It was fun for them and I hope they will end up a long way away in someone's yard and that person will call them or email.

Well that is all for now.  I am going to head toward the sleeping place and try to sleep tonight.