But in spite of the weather we had a blast and a successful trip! 

Once we found a hotel in Little Rock and walked off the nerves we got brave….well, actually, we got hungry!  And we could see a PFChang’s from our balcony…..

Outdoor seating was available, but we opted for the warmth of the inside!  Where we promptly toasted to not being one of the many cars in a ditch!

The next day we high-tailed it outta there and the shopping began!  I seemed to have a thing for Santa this trip!  I’m not a big buyer of seasonal anything and I sure don’t like to buy it ten months before I can use it, but all my rules are made to be broken and when I found this Santa I felt I needed him!  The real Santa may live at the North Pole but this Santa is gonna live at my house!

He is adorable but he was also a serious space eater!  Whew!  I didn’t really think that through!  When I unloaded him I stuck him in the dining room where he scared the living life out of me every time I turned the corner!  He’s been relegated to a closet for the off-season!

The next Santa I came across were lightpost covers!  Great!  There are two and I really thought I’d sell them but first I have to get them apart and second I have to quit breaking chunks off of them….they are very fragile!  Quite possibly another Santa that will be living at my house!  Oh yeah, no worries, I am smiling behind there!  Dork!

There was the reminder of the weather every time we looked in the rearview mirror….like we couldn’t look out the window and see for ourselves!

Some place along the way we found some tasty shrimp po-boys that were bigger than us!

And they came with pickle earrings!

We carried on!  By the end of four days we were loaded to the max!  At one point even a little nervous about where our suitcases might fit, but then in the big picture…..all that stuff is disposable!

No space was sacred!  From the driver seat, through the legs of a stool, I could see my friend!

Home bound we were!  So sorry, Sandi, that it was your turn to pump gas…..oh…..and drive in the dark, in the snow storm, on the slush and ice, on the two lane highway…..what’d it take…..yeah, that’s it…..an hour and a half to go thirty miles!  And we were only ninety miles from home!

Buying trip behind us…..Warrenton in front of us!  March 25th!-April 3rd!  Did I mention?  Sandi is my neighbor at Cole’s!  We’re on Waco Dr., I’m in #126 and she’s in #128!  Come see us!

Leave that comment so I can enter your name in the March give-away!  You win, you choose!  Pickin’ the winners March 2nd!