Sunshine and Shopping

After all the rain overnight, we woke up to sunshine! Okay, we woke before the sun came up (thank you, Gabi), but we DID have a beautiful blue sky, sunny day. 70 or so degrees today here. Yes haw! Now I know you are probably thinking that we finally unearthed the golf clubs and got out to play. Nope. It was still to squenchy to play. Yes, squenchy is a word. I know, because I just made it up! Grin.

Anyway, a gang of us decided to make the trek to the San Marcos outlet malls, about 45 minutes north of San Antonio. Man, that place is HUGE!

They actually have two outlet malls that run together along I35. When we arrived in the late morning, it was like a ghost town there, with lots of parking. We'd shop in one area and then move the car down the lot for some more shopping. By early afternoon, the concept of moving the car for convenience was out of the question. The parking lots, all of them, looked something like this. Yikes!

Despite the parking lot situation, it didn't seem that crowded. Did I mention that place is HUGE!?! There were tons of people there by the time we left and you could still navigate around the sidewalks and stores fairly easily.

We shopped until Max reached his limit. Okay, maybe just a little past his limit. Grin. Then it was time to head home. That really tried our patience. Good grief, the traffic here can be awful. There was a point on I35 (a 70 MPH freeway!) where it looked like a parking lot. Ah well, at least we don't have to deal with that everyday.

Despite the challenges, we bagged quite a few bargains. Now we just have to figure out how to cram it all in the truck to get it home!

Cheers,

Dr J