Day 84

We had another good day.  We spent most of the morning reading and surfing.  Ellen found out that a Bed, Bath, and Beyond on 183 had a towel warmer in stock.  The place was only a couple of blocks from the Domain, so we decided to leave the dog at home and go there, too.

Our first stop was a place off the freeway call Sam Moon's.  I've always wanted to stop there, but we never have.  The place was amazing.  It was the size of a grocery store and packed with cheap Chinese stuff, mainly for women.  It had belts, handbags, clothes, shoes, etc.  There wasn't anything we wanted though.

We stopped at Bed, Bath, and Beyond next.  That involved a whole bunch of circling around until we found the right street to get us on the frontage road.  We bought the warmer and a food slicer.  We used two 20% off coupons.

Then it was off to the Domain.  The parking lots were packed.  We did manage to park in the far parking structure.  That was OK, we needed to walk.  We walked the whole length of the place, at least half a mile each way.  It was 60, but seemed colder.  We were going into and out of stores, so it wasn't too bad.

The place is full of higher end stores and yuppies.  It was kind of weird.  Now that I'm 60, most of the people are significantly younger than me.  It doesn't make me feel old, but it does make me feel irrelevant.

It's funny.  We'd walk into these places like Neiman Marcus and look at the merchandise.  We could afford it, but it's just not stuff that we'd be comfortable with owning.  The same thing happened at several other stores.  We stopped at California kitchen for a really late lunch.  Most of the other places were too yuppie.  We did splurge on $5 cups of coffee.

When we got home the dog was ecstatic.  I immediately took her to the mailbox.  On the way to the gate she would stop every 50 feet, turn around, and bark at me to hurry up.  On the way back she ran ahead and stood at the get and barked to let her in so she could run to dinner.

I tried out the new warmer.  The switch feels a lot better than the old one.  It also warms towels a lot better.