Shop, shop, shop... all day long

We braved the cold in the end, and went to Southside's for dinner, or more exactly, a plate of nachos and lots of PG and Miller Lite!!

We had a lot of running around to do today, and that has been what we've done! We headed to Pentagon Mall first for Estee Lauder shopping and much needed Starbucks. Then we were going to go to Pentagon Row for chocolate at World Market, but got in the wrong lane and ended up on the I-395 (someone forgot to pick up the satnav....), so detoured to Target to buy more blankets and bedding so our visitors don't freeze to death when they get here in a week or two. Then onto Barnes and Noble for some books for me. We then got the car washed and vacuumed. Then we headed round to Kingstowne Mall to go to the World Market there...which is when things slowed down! First of all, Stephen came off at the wrong exit, so we had to take the scenic route, and then the traffic ground to a halt. We crawled along for the best part of an hour (and we were only going a few miles!), eventually got to blue flashy lights...three police cars and a fire truck...as a bus had rear-ended an X5 (just the Auxiliary Braking System being put into use). By the time we got to the mall we were starving, so stopped into Johnny Rockets for a burger, before heading to World Market. We bought a fairly obscene amount of chocolate! I was really quite excited to find After Eights!! We staggered back to the car under the weight of digestive biscuits, ambrosia creamed rice (another of my "sick foods"!), stock cubes and chocolate...and discovered that they hadn't vacuumed the boot!!! It was still covered in pine needles from the Christmas tree....