Black Friday makes my coffee taste better

So last week, I wrote this about Black Friday. BF was going to be so magical, magical!!!

But then I missed this string of texts: Nov. 29 3:04 a.m.

Lianna (sister and annual shopping partner in crime): "Anyone else get their sleep ruined by a noisy infant?"

Mom: "I am ready!"

Lianna: "I'm waiting for Julian to fall asleep....Cross fingers"

Me: SILENCE.

Why? My sleep/rain falling with gentle thunder app must have been too loud. Coupled with my air mattress sleeping partner husband's snore machine swishing sound = no hearing of the texting......

Thus 5 am rolled around and I awoke to my horror of seeing these texts and finding that I had been left.

Nnnnnnnnooooooooooooo!!!!!

But there was no ill intent, see. The night before, we got some crazy idea to go to WalMart at 8 pm and had never seen such a disgusting sight and/or smell and we promptly left. Having that experience, we had decided just to sleep like normal and leave in the morning so they just thought I really wanted to sleep.

Whaaaaaat???!!!

Finding myself without my shopping partners was a total bummer, but then I found that Shawn was here too. And turns out, he had one big goal: To be one of the first 100 patrons at World Market and receive a genuine Downton Abbey tea cup.......

Seriously.

So we went. Because I immediately wanted one too.

We got there at 5:50 and they opened at 7. There was no one in line. Obviously we were the only ones who wanted one of these....people were m-i-s-s-i-n-g out!!!! We decided we were a tad early. What to do.....we went elsewhere to shop. When we returned at 6:20, the parking lot had begun to fill. People were waiting in their cars and there were a few in line outside the store. Shawn began to sense his competition...he began to estimate their numbers.

We decided there weren't enough to threaten us yet and left for a while longer. When we returned there was a line! NOOOOO!!!! We ran to the line. Shawn counted their numbers. We must retrieve our Downton Abbey tea cups.

Then we realized the people in line had tickets of some sort. Where did they get them we asked? The front the line? The front of the line. Ok. We ran.

We GOT TICKETS!!! Victory!

They also had terrible Dixie cups of bad coffee and shortbread. How festive!

We ran back to the back of the line. (Why were we running?)

We were next to a really old lady and a very well dressed man in a checkered scarf. We discussed Downton Abbey and the upcoming season. What would they do now since they killed off Matthew?! We snapped a photo. I shared my shortbread with the old lady. Just when I thought I had frost bite on my left thumb......

The line moved. WE WERE IN!!!!!

And this happened.

Posed regally in front of the wine racks.

Man, this was so worth it. And then World Market became my favorite store ever. We found a ton of gifts and stocking stuffers for my mom and sister. Shawn and I filled our cart with gifts. Their prices were phenom and the quality seemed to be great! I'm so excited about this store!

Shortly thereafter, we met back up with my original BF clan at Target, my home shopping wonderland, and the rest is Black Friday history. Magical magical magical.  We were all together again!

Here is what I'm drinking my coffee out of this morning.

It tastes so much more....I don't know what. Better.

Happy Thanksgiving and BF 2013!!!