I like spending money!

We went to Columbus today to spend our Christmas money at the Tuttle Mall. We've been doing this every year for at least the past 3 years and it's a great tradition.

We left the house around 12-12:30 and we got to Boston Market around 1:30-2 (which is pretty good for us, but Dad probably could have made the trip in about an hour if he didn't have to slow down to a normal speed so that I could follow him ;p). When we got to the restaurant, we ordered our food and it only took us about half an hour to eat (because most of us were starving) but we waited for another 20-ish minutes for Mom's brother and his wife to show up.

Shortly after they showed up, me, Dad, my brothers and Ben's girlfriend headed over to the mall, leaving Mom with my Aunt and Uncle (which was fine with her because she hates shopping and malls and the sort).

The first store I headed to was Forever 21 because I needed to pick up a giftcard for a friend for Christmas. Unfortunately the lines were too long, so I decided to leave and come back later. I left that store and browsed around in a few more, but left those pretty quickly because I didn't find anything of interest.

After a while, I wandered over to Payless where I bought myself 3 pairs of shoes. I got a cute pair of sling-back black shoes that have a slightly pointy toe and a heel that's only about an inch high. I recently inherrited some dressy clothes and I figured that it would be a good idea to have dressy shoes to wear along with them. I got a pair of black flats that look exactly like the brown ones I just bought. My only pair of black flats is pretty much dead, and I like my brown ones so much, so I decided to get those in black. :) I also picked up a pair of brown tennis shoes. Now when the weather is cold and icky outside, I won't be limited to wearing only clothes that go with black tennis shoes...I can wear whatever I want!

Eventually I picked up the giftcard for my friend from Forever 21 and then I ended up in Walden's, but I decided not to buy anything for myself in there because I still have one more gift exchange and I don't know if any of my friends bought me any books.

My next stop was Claire's. I found all sorts of cute things there! I picked up a white tiger TY stuffed animal and a Jack Sparrow pillowcase for one friend, an orange bendy watch with penguins on it for another friend, a Garfield TY stuffed animal for Jake, and a Snowman TY beanie baby for my Aunt.

I got all of my Christmas shopping over with officially after I made a trip over to Bath and Body Works. While in there, I picked up a bottle of Midnight Pomegranate perfume and a Black Raspberry Vanilla Wallflower (for myself).

The trip to Bath and Body Works marked the end of my spending frenzy because I pretty much ran out of money after that. So, I headed back over to the Food Court to hang out with Mom and my Aunt and Uncle while everyone else finished up.

Oh yeah...I had this amazingly huge piece of tomato, onion and basil pizza from a place in the Food Court called "Sbarro." It was pretty good, but I couldn't taste much of it (I think my nose is a little stuffed up).

Anyways. The day was a success, in my opinion. I just wish I would have had more time and more money to spend. ;p