Christmas came early for the Liming household. Last Sunday we went out and bought a brand new 42" plasma flat screen tv; blu-ray dvd player; dvd recorder; wii game system; and a new stand for the tv.
It all started last Saturday, Gary's friend had us come over to his house so that we could see his new flat screen tv. Gary got all the particulars on it, so when we went to Billings Saturday afternoon, we looked at the new tvs.
We priced tv's in three different stores and decided to buy ours at Best Buy as they were having a sale on them. We have a home theater system but we weren't too sure if it would work with the new tv, so the little sales man told us what to look for on the back of our theater system. Wouldn't you know it, we didn't have the hdmi connector that would be needed. Any way we talked about it some more and decided to go ahead and buy everything now.
Our original plan was to wait until around Christmas time to get all this stuff, but Gary wanted the new tv before football season started. The selling point was when the salesman told us that the plasma tv was faster especially for sports.
We set up the tv and blu ray along with the new stand on Sunday when we got home. Wasn't too bad, but I had to rearrange my living room. It only took us a couple hours to get the tv, stand and blu ray hooked up and working. All I can say is WOW. That tv is so huge. Had Mom come over and at first it took her a while to notice that we had a new tv. She noticed that my bookcase that was in the corner was moved and our computer desk is now sitting where the tv and entertainment center used to be. It finally dawned on her that we got the new tv and it is now in the corner where my bookcase used to be. I don't know how she missed noticing this huge 42" tv in our livingroom.
We got the wii connected last night and had fun playing with the games. We all played bowling. Jen had to work last night so she was only able to play one game of bowling with us. Gary and I had fun trying out the other games. It is going to take us a while to get used to all this but we are sure going to enjoy it. We must have played those games for two hours last night. Mom came over and just laughed when Gary and I were playing.
All we have left to do is hook up the dvd recorder. We lost our home theater system but that is ok. May get a new one in the future. Now our problem is what are we going to do with our old tv and the entertainment center. Good thing I have an extra bedroom that I can use for a storage room.
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