Category Archives: Lancaster

Shop ’til you drop

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Sean and I made our leisurely journey up to Lancaster and the outlets at 2. I just couldn’t leave any earlier as Bri had woken me up at the ‘use to be’ crack of dawn and I needed to rest a little longer.

First we stopped by the post office so I could sent the cross stitched piece pictured below to England. The traffic was all tied up in town. Diana, at the post office said an elderly gentleman had been hit by truck and dragged a block or so. Of course he didn’t make it. So sad.

I took the camera hoping for some postcard-like Lancaster shots, but we didn’t venture down side roads, so I didn’t take any photos. I promise next time to leave earlier and do so. Try to visual some baby lambs, with their mama. I would have loved to take a few photos of them. The buay roads we travel on (lots of trucks) hardly have any traffic lights, so taking photos is difficult. I tried to take one of a pretty church in Paradise, but I only got half of it.

Lambkins

(not my photo)

Our first stop was ‘Tuesday Morning’ (me) and Adidas (Sean). I scooted and found a few things-a few goodies for mom who is in a blue mood. Sean purchased two pairs of sneaks at a great price.

We went to Target where he did eventually get his money back. The girl behind the counter was very disagreeable and was going to tell us to call an 800 number. I told her it was all settled back in January with the man I spoke to. They had even looked at the video from the surveillance camera to check. The manager did come over and Sean got his refund. We shopped a lot in there. They have a fun area with $1.00-$2.50 items. I think every little girl in there had an Easter hat on from that particular area.

We then ate dinner at Red Lobster. Sean had coconut shrimp and I had lobster and shrimp. We hadn’t eaten in a Red Lobster for years and it was pretty good.

Next-Gap Store outlet. Got birthday gifts for Bri, Kenny and Tori all who have birthdays in the next month.

I got some scrapbooking stuff at the Borders book outlets for dirt cheap. I really wanted a bell jar at the Pottery Barn outlet, but decided there was no place to put it. Sean knows I like it at least. We almost got into the traffic for a Vince Gill concert at the American Music Theater. We’ve been there for a Jim Brickman concert back in ’03 and it’s a nice place to hear a concert.

I did get that gift that Bri asked for in my post below. I also got a little teapot with a strainer so I can get some loose tea and really enjoy a cup of tea like you are suppose to.

The roads were so dark coming home tonight.

I called my mom and she was moving furniture at 9 pm with Jim her boarder. She is asking for pain! No way could Brian and Sean do it after walking around Philly on Sunday.

Tomorrow the guy is cleaning the heater-funny, I know. I had made the appointment about last September! Then I am having my brother Ken inspect my van and check out a few problems with it-grinding brakes and it feels like it will stall (actually it has) when you start it up after it’s been run. I have to leave it at his house and pick it up Thursday or Friday.
So, that was an interesting day. A little shopping does a body good!

Good shopping day

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j66419.jpgThe ring!My mom drove out by early afternoon (she is staying overnight), so we took a drive up to the outlets in Lancaster which are about 33 miles away. Sean saw that Borders books had a new store in Rockvale (checking closing time on web) and we knew that would be a dangerous place to go. At first we couldn’t find it. We went to one book store, but it was way too expensive. Sean and I left mom in that bookstore and got some Pepperidge Farms goodies next door. Then we went around the corner to the QVC outlet store and my mom bought me two lovely rings! They are sterling silver and the one has all tiny teardrop shaped abalone shells in a pattern on a dome and the other is a ‘bounty of 10 marquise-shaped, colorful gemstones beam atop this stunning sterling silver ring’s tapered band. The stones, which include blue jade, pink jade (mine doesn’t have the pink ), green jade, rhodolite, peridot, and blue topaz, are prong set in two diagonal rows.’ (from QVC website)
  I love them!
We did find Borders and both mom and I did some damage in there. I got a few cross stitch hardback books (like I really need them) and craft books and she got calendars, art books and paperbacks.

We ate at Fuddruckers (a hamburger place) after we had walked around Target. We found out that the woman charged Sean for 3 NFL champion t-shirts instead of the two he actually bought. Don’t worry, I called them up right away when we got home (when he discovered the overcharge) and he has 90 days to get his money back. I told them coming back up there was a lot of trouble for their salesperson making a mistake.

Our last stop-Gap and we had the entire store to ourselves (no one was shopping in this actual bitter winter weather. I got a bunch of long sleeved t-shirts that I love plus a few other things.

So it was a good day and we have lot of books to entertain us if it actually snows this winter!

Lancaster man becomes All time Jeopardy champion

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Congrats to Brad Rutter!
From AOL news:
“Ken Jennings,”Jeopardy!” brainiac met his match this week, losing a three-day tournament of champions from the game show and a $2 million (1.58 million) prize to Brad Rutter of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Rutter was hardly intimidated by Jennings’ 74-game winning streak in the game show last year. He beat Jennings in all three individual games, and his final total of $62,000 (49,066) easily eclipsed Jennings’ $34,599 (27,381).”

Man, that must feel good to beat someone like Jennings. He is hardly suffering from his lost. Before the tournament, I’ve seen him in a number of tv commercials.