The 13th

All right, well, we've made it to Tuesday the 13th! For future reference, I don't think I'll be making an entry for every single day, but my first few days here have been particularly eventful and photoful, so I have.

So on the 13th, we went shopping! A very important thing to do. Our main endeavor was bathers for me. Bathers being a bathing suit. I have one, but I got it about 5 years ago, so everyone insisted I must buy a new one so I could frequent the beach. So off we went.

We parked in a parking garage. While there, I took a picture of a Give Way sign. Because we don't have those, we have yield signs. So yeah.

We then went up escalators to the shopping area, and I tried to take a picture of where it said "Entry to Shops," because that phrase seems rather Australian to me. But my mom and Pippi got in the way. They were not all too pleased at the particular angle at which I captured them, so please ignore that.

Once there, we got some lunch, and then went to the grocery store and then Target to get my bathers, two pairs of shoes, and towels. Because a girl does need towels. And the 12 pairs of shoes I brought with me were clearly not enough.

However, all of this shopping pales in comparison to one very important thing. I had a dream fulfilled! I have heard, from Erin probably, that in Chicago they have Targets that are two stories high and they have two escalators that go up, one for people and one for carts. I just thought that was the coolest thing ever, so it has been a dream of mine to experience such a thing.

At the shopping center we were at, they didn't have quite that, but they had something very similar. And you didn't even need to hold on to the cart (or trolley as it's called here). it would just go up or down and no matter how much stuff was it in, it didn't roll away! I was so impressed, that I took pictures.

And...um...I probably did other stuff on the 13th but I didn't take pictures so I don't remember - is that bad? Ooh, I think I might have gotten my bank account on the 13th! Yes. But I didn't take pictures of that.