Oh Boy, OBERTO!
My sweet daughter Paige is currently on a 5 day backpacking/camp trip with 15 other classmates and 3 adults. Mind you, this is not a normal “car camping” trip. This is a “carry everything you need to survive on your back for 5 DAYS” camping trip. I am just dying to hear all about how it went and curious too see what condition she is in after all of this. One thing that I know for sure … she is going to stink to high heaven when she gets home.
Anyway, one of the reasons that we were so busy last weekend was because Paige and I were doing some last minute shopping for her big trip. I should have known better than to do these types of errands on the weekend, but alas, I definitely paid for my procrastination.
Here are a few things I learned when shopping on Saturday – take heed:
- Going to COSTCO on a Saturday is my version of hell.
- There is no such thing as a 30 minute trip to the mall. It takes 30 minutes to park and get inside the mall.
- Gilly Hicks is the worst store ever created. I almost strangled the girl that said, “Welcome to the Gilly Hicks the sassy young sister of Abercombie and Fitch!” DIE GILLY, DIE.
- Being with your daughter while she tries on bikinis is not for the faint of heart.
- Panda Express is should not have “gourmet Chinese food” as a tag line. Panda Express should not even be called Chinese food at all.
- Eating Red Mango frozen yogurt makes most things tolerable. Small pomegranate with honey – a mere 150 calories and completely delicious.
Because we were disoriented by going to the mall and Target and Costco all in one day, we decided to go to the Oh Boy! Oberto! Factory Outlet to get Paige some beef jerky (instead of the grocery store like normal people). After going to Gilly Hicks, driving 5 miles out of my way across town to get a bag of beef jerky seemed like the most reasonable thing in the whole world. Who doesn’t want to HAVE FUN????
Most cities have attractions like the Liberty Bell, Smithsonian, Times Square, Washington Monument … Seattle has the Space Needle and a jerky outlet.
Clearly, we are not the only ones who think that going to the factory outlet store for jerky is amusing. I should have asked for one of those hats!
And behold the WALL OF DRIED BEEF:
Oh I love my daughter. When I look at this picture I am thinking that she probably shouldn’t have gotten the spicy jerky, given that she has to go dig a hole and poop in the woods on her trip.
Let us now bow our heads in prayer for her and hope that she rations her tissue well.
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Oh my, last weekend we discovered that Sunday is also defintiely NOT a day for going to Costco. Love the blog! Hope Paige comes back with great stories of her adventure!
Another “no-no”… Ikea on a Sunday. I almost cut out my own uterus after hearing and seeing small screaming children for an hour. Why can’t parents drop them in the “specifically designed area known as Smaaland for leaving your horrible kids thereby letting other people shop in relative peace”, I’ll never know…
Love the ‘roughing it’ flats and patchwork bag. Very ‘mountain girl’.
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My ex-wife and I call Panda Express “Plastic Panda”. She used to love it – I would rather eat my shoes. She grew out of it. Seattle has great Chinese food (I should probably say “great food” period!) I don’t understand how PE can stay in business around here. The average teriyaki hole-in-the-wall is better than PE!
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That’s so great! I went on a trip like that in high school, i actually did it twice. The first time I thought I was going to die (I was quite a bit heavier than your cutey daughter) and the next year I didn’t have a problem. She’s going to remember this trip her entire life, I wish my daughter’s school did something like that.
I hope Paige had a great time. Although I am slightly worried for those girls considering their choice of camping/hiking footwear…I’m hoping they have sturdier stuff in those professional looking backpacks
Also, camping is awesome.
Your daughter is just so beautiful! Also…. spicy jerky in the woods? Did you warn her!! Haha!
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