I drove up to Portland yesterday for a holiday get-together with friends.  However, I had a stop to make on the way.  This was a stop I was dreading and really questioning my sanity for attempting.

I told myself to remain calm and patient because I was heading to the Woodburn outlets on a Saturday afternoon in December.  This is basically against my religion.  Normally, I would have gone first thing in the morning, but I didn’t want to drive up twice and I wasn’t meeting my friends until later in the day.  Thus, I got there at about 2:30 and basically had to park on the freeway.

I spent a few minutes in my car preparing.

And you can’t go into battle without lipgloss, right?

After applying lipstick and lipgloss, I checked to make sure I had my major coupon:

The 50% friends and family coupon for Adidas.  And I was pretty sure everyone in the store would have one so I was scared.

After getting adequately prepared, I started my journey from the freeway to the store.

Fortunately, I made it across the parking lot and street without getting killed.  Needless to say, I was happy when I saw this sign:

Now I realize it doesn’t look that crowded, but when I got inside, grabbed the 3 things I wanted and got in line, this is what I faced:

That was the line to check out.  I was in the back of the store…the registers are in the front to the right of the Adidas sign on the wall.

And I waited in line for about 20 minutes to buy 3 things:

Two packs of socks and a hat.  Boring and crazy right?  I should have been playing supermarket sweep through that place, but I just didn’t have time!  I only had time for necessities.  The socks are for G and the hat’s for me.  I love the inside of the hat.

About 20 minutes and $17 later, I was out of there and on the road up to Portland.

Good times and I won the battle!!!