Another tradition that has been started in our family with the nieces and nephews is "Black Friday".  My family lives in Tulsa, which happened to get a cold blast this year.  I left 80 degree temps. in Houston to arrive in 30 degree temps. with a forecast of the low 20's for "Black Friday".  "Yeah!"

This is how it goes, for those of you that haven't experienced it.  You go stand in line and battle the cold for hours in hopes you get all those great electronic gadgets you don't really need.  This year with the temps dropping in the low 20's we opted for going later around 3:30am, luckily the stores started opening at 5am instead of  8 am.  The lines were wrapped around the stores perimeters.   My nephew being 19 and fully determined to be "one of 9 people to get a 50" Plasma" went around midnight and waited it out.  This is not exactly what I call fun, nor did I need anything, but the kids thought it was "awesome" to go shopping at dark in freezing temps, before the sun came up, scraping ice off the windshield, going to the mall to fight the crowds, eating breakfast out, and then stopping at "Krispy Kreme" and having Godiva Coffee at Dillard's.  They had it all mapped out and knew exactly what they wanted and were on a mission, I was actually really impressed, they had done the research.

They had a ball, all ended up happy, getting what they wanted, and yes my nephew got his 50" Plasma, a complete computer system, wireless keyboard,  DVD High Def. Up-Conversion for his plasma, and who knows what else.  My youngest nephew stocked up on XBOX games, and the girls went for IPOD NANO's and clothes. So we are all loaded up on more electronics, computers, dvd's and things that I'm sure I can't operate...until next years sale!

Would I do it all over again...of course!

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