Careful at Target!

We had a great Memorial Day week-end down at my FIL's house in NC. On Saturday we went to the beach for the day. Unfortunately the weather was not so nice first, so we were strolling down the beach with our umbrellas. The water was really warm and it was just nice to be able to feel the sand under our naked toes. We collected tons of shells. On Sunday we went for a boat ride in one of the lakes. We saw turtles and birds. It was great. Afterwards we had a real nice BBQ with my FIL, BIL and BIL's wife and our nephew. We also played boccie. The drive back up to D.C. was less fun. 95 was a parking lot and it took us forever...

And I finally did it. I bough something for the baby. That was a really big step for me. And I had a traumatizing experience. We went to Target and I had picked out a travel bed from Eddie Bauer. It was the last one on the display. My brother and his girl-friend bought some other stuff. Then we went to the strollers and were looking at them. Our cart was right behind us until we turned a corner. We went back to pick up our cart and it was gone. Including all our stuff in it. We were running through the whole store to find it. With no success. Can you imagine. I finally take all my bravery together and intend to buy something for the baby. And then our cart gets stolen... I asked a shop assistant for help and she couldn't find it either. But she told us that they usually go around the shop to find owner-less carts and take the stuff back. But the bed didn't make it back. She then went to find it for us at the storage. But when I walked around some more, I found the bed and a trouser that my brother wanted to buy at the ladies wardrobe. The rest of our stuff was already gone. The store assistants had taken it. I mean, we were standing right around the corner and we were looking at baby stuff. Couldn't they have asked us whether that was our cart before they just take it away? I am so glad we didn't have a real life Baby in our cart. They probably would have taken it, put a price tag on it and sold it in the store.

We even managed to keep the bed and the cart this time and I bought it. It is now sitting in our office waiting for its trip to pick up our baby. Fortunately I don't go to the office every day, so I don't have to look at it all the time...