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SHOPPING!!

Published December 4, 2007 by Erin

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This past weekend I went shopping with some friends from our LIFE Group at church. We did an overnight trip up to Frankenmuth, MI (about 2 1/2 hours North). Frankenmuth is near a huge Prime Outlet Mall with 100′s of shops. I was so excited to get away without kiddos and spend time with just girls.

We had a great time watching chick flicks in the hotel and then watching the Food Network till our hearts content. On Saturday we hit the hotel’s continental “extended” breakfast (HA)… which didn’t really do much for any of us, and then we were off for a day to look for great deals and check people off our Christmas lists.

We first headed over to Bronner’s – the World’s Largest Christmas store… you can’t go to Frankenmuth and not go there. I was presently surprised by how NOT crowded it was!!! I guess we hit it at the right time. Once we got our Christmas fix in, we headed to the Outlets. We did pretty good but were wiped out by 4:00 and decided to head out. We stopped in Ann Arbor for dinner at Mongolian BBQ. It started snowing a little when we got there and by the time we got done with dinner the streets were covered in snow and from there I was white-knuckling it for 2 1/2 hr. home (should have only been 1 hr.). Needless to say were were all pretty exhausted when we finally got home.

It was a great trip though and it was so fun to get away with the ladies!

Jenny & Melissa

jenny & melissa

Roz

roz

At Bronner’s

the girls

At Mongolian BBQ

Mongolian BBQ

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