Walk With Me...and her...and her....and her...and her

You may remember our Black Friday escapade last November? (If you are a new reader, or have a short memory, click HERE for a recap) Anyway, last November as we parked our very hungry butts in the booth at Maggiano's Miss Kay came up with the amazing idea that we should all re-assemble in July, take a three hour drive down to the US, shop and have dinner at Maggiano's to celebrate our birthdays. All 5 of us agreed...because really, July seemed soooo far away that it was easy to say "SURE!"...and we all forgot about it.

But not Miss Kay who, I might add, has a memory that would make an elephant hide it's brain in shame. June rolled around and out popped an email from Miss Kay reminding us of our plan. Well, we all juggled our schedules to make things work and in July we found ourselves breaking out in the early dawn, armed with Starbucks, a catchy music CD, a van and a lot of excitement. Yes, we shopped 'til we dropped, yes we all got schmexy pedicures, and yes we ate dinner at Maggiano's!

And yes, we came up with a new name for ourselves: Let it forever be known that we, Black Friday Shoppers Extraordinaire, are from this day forward to be known as...dun, dun, duuuun....THE SHOPPING BAGS.

And this time, as we all sat with over stuffed bellies and promises to our bodies that we would never eat again, when Miss Kay suggested that we reconvene again in November at Maggiano's, we seriously discussed whether we should make a blood promise--you know, the one where you slash your hand, like in Robin Hood: Prince of Theives, and vow on your life to meet again come hell or high water? Yeah, that one. Well, I'm pretty sure we would have done it but we were all too full and happy to find the obligatory knife to use for the slashing.

So instead we all just spat into a diet coke and sipped from it.

You gotta do what you gotta do....