mini road trip

Mom and I had a wonderful mini-road trip.  We started by stopping at the Corning/Corelle store so that I could get some new dishes.  I picked some out, not the ones I had my heart set on but they were nice.  Next we continued on since the whole reason we went was to get a giant plastic Santa face for my house.  My parents have one on their house and I found a hook type thing on the front of our house and thought, "a Santa would look nice."  Apparently they are very expensive on e-bay for the large ones.  My resourceful mom started looking on Craigslist.  They were willing to hold it for us until we made the trip (this was from back in December).  It's just like my folks giant Santa face and I'm super excited, though I will have to lock him to the house.

Boscov's #1

After that we drove onward a little in search of Boscov's.  It was closed when we got there (Sunday) so we picked a hotel and ended up staying near Mohegan Sun (in Pennsylvania).  We adventured to the Casino for dinner and mom ended up winning $28 and change with her freeplay money.  I was a loser.

Monday morning we got up and went to Target to return some things mom had in the car since Boscov's wasn't open yet.  Boscov's was an old fashioned city style department store (not mall).  Mom loved it and kept wondering when Jen was going call/text and let us know what she was having (boy or girl).  We stopped at Perkins and split a 5 stack of pancakes.  Mom loves their pancakes and there aren't anymore Perkins in our area.

After Perkins it was onto Boscov's number two of the day.  This one appeared to be like the old Mid-Town plaza.  You parked under ground and took the escalator up into the store.  This store was attached to a mall but it reminded us of Mid-Town plaza.  In the parking garage before we went shopping we got a text from Jen that was a picture.  "It's a pineapple," she declared with a photo of a pineapple from Hawaii.  The baker didn't have her cupcakes done so they were wandering the store.  Mom got really excited and thought I was kidding when I read the text to her (she was finding a parking spot and didn't want to wait.)  While shopping she received the text that it was a boy and was very happy (although she would have been either way).

Boscov's #2

We proceeded on to our third and final Boscov's of the trip.  Another city location.  Here mom returned some things from Boscov's #1 that were girl baby clothes (on sale really good).  We were Boscov-ed out.  Mom had a free night at Turning Stone Casino so we spent the night.  Very early in the morning we got up and went to the Casino to use our free play money.  I was once again a loser while my mom walked away with around $125.  She is just lucky like that.  

After the Casino we checked out the Oneida factory store and looked at the silverware.  I didn't need any but was curious.  Mom always looks for her pattern, which is discontinued.  You never know.  We skipped the Disney store in Syracuse since I can get stuff online and it was raining and we were tired.  The Waterloo Premium outlets was our last stop.  The bathrooms there were so clean and nice. We had lunch and then returned my dishes from the Corning/Corelle place since I just couldn't shake the dishes I wanted.  They were able to order my Target exclusive print from their store so I had success plus free shipping since Target is usually out of my dishes.  

It was a fun adventure with my momma and I am looking forward to many more.