Black Friday Madness?

I'm not one of those insane people who wakes up at 3 am to hit the malls for Black Friday shopping. In fact, I've never done any Christmas shopping the day after Thanksgiving, not once in the 18 years I've been alive. But today I did go out with my dad to run some basic errands. So I felt like I was kind of a part of the Black Friday madness.
I've been feeling kinda sick since Wednesday. I've had some minor sinus headaches, a sore throat, a stuffed up nose and just achiness on and off, which hasn't been fun. I guess being around so many sick people in college finally caught up with me :( This morning, I woke up with another headache, I was sneezing a lot and couldn't seem to clear my nose. Around noon, my dad invited me to go run errands with him and he said I could pick out some stuff at Whole Foods to take back with me on Sunday. Well, how could I turn down a Whole Foods trip, even if it meant I had to go other, more boring stores? I tagged along, and I wasn't diasppointed.
First we went to Walmart, so my dad could pick up some Fresca (his favorite soda) and look for packing papers, since we're moving in a couple of weeks. I was surprised that the store was much less busy than it was on Tuesday when my mom took me and my sister to get Thanksgiving stuff. I guess all those insane people had already gone home after their early-morning buying frenzy. So we got in and out of there pretty quick, though we didn't find the packing papers and had to go to Lowe's to buy those. After Lowe's, my dad surprised me by taking me to Starbucks. I got the mocha light frappuccino with a pump of peppermint (just like I got on Tuesday, in my last post). And as soon as I started sipping the delicious drink, I felt better. My headache disappeared and I felt less congested. We went to Whole Foods next and their free samples, along with my Starbucks, helped keep my hunger at bay til we got home (I didn't have lunch until after 2, so I would have been pretty hungry without them). I picked out all the stuff I needed (including the delicious new Silk soymilk flavor, mint chocolate, which is a seasonal drink--I'm such a sucker for all things seasonal) and we left. I loved having the time to just talk with my dad about stuff while we made our way home.

So my Black Friday wasn't hectic like some people's, but it was just the way I like it--quality time with my family, getting out of the house for a couple of hours and Starbucks!