Black Friday

I survived Black Friday. I didn't get up early and shop at 4:00 am or anything like that, but we did go to Billings Friday.

Our first stop was in Sheridan at the VA so that Gary could go in and get his blood pressure checked. The medication he is on right now just isn't doing the trick, but it has at least stopped it from going higher. We were told that they open at 7:30, we arrived at 8:00 am, checked in and waited an hour before he was called. It just doesn't pay to get there early. Anyway, his regular doc wasn't in, but the nurse told him that he wouldn't get a stronger dosage of what he is taking now, he will have to take another medicine in addition to what he is taking. He should be getting a phone call on Monday. He is not happy at all about having to take any kind of medicine. He fought this for 10 years, but his family history has finally caught up to him. We ate breakfast in Sheridan before heading to Billings.

Our first stop in Billings was at Nissan to get the oil changed in his truck. He thought it would take 20 minutes. Usually I am the one to take the truck in for oil changes and I told him that it would take over an hour, these guys are not speedy. Anyway we had plenty of time to look around at the new cars and trucks. I told him not to buy anything and this time I didn't go the the restroom.

We are in the market to getting a small utility trailer. He wants one to haul the motorcycle around. There are year round gatherings for bikers, but winter is just too cold to ride from Hardin to Billings. Anyway we decided to go ahead and get the trailer. If we don't like it we can always sell it. Now we have to order a hitch for the truck. For some strange reason he bought this truck without a towing package. It's going to cost about $300 to get the hitch and the labor for the installation. After leaving the Nissan dealership 2 hours later, we then headed to Laurel to buy a trailer.

We stopped at the trailer place and they just got in a used 12' trailer in a couple days ago. The original owner decided that it was too small for what he wanted and traded it in for a bigger one. It looks brand new and we don't think he used this one at all. We decided to go ahead and buy it for $1300 but we can't pick it up until next week. The little salesperson put our name on it and when we pick it up we will then pay for it.

We then made our way back to Billings, stopped at Wal-Mart to price micro waves. Ours is so old that it is not heating right. This was given to us by some friends who about 15 years ago bought a new one and gave us this one. Prices sure have come way down when micro waves first came out. We found one we wanted and I would pick it up on Saturday when I bring my car up to get serviced. That is another story.

We then decided to go to the mall to eat and watch people. Made it to the mall, but it was so crowded that we didn't even try. The parking lot was full, even the south forty part of the lot was full. We sort of peeked in the windows and all we could see was people shoulder to shoulder. No sense in trying to fight our way through that crowd just for something to eat. We went to Buffalo Wings and had a great burger.

It was getting late and we decided to go home, I had to come back up on Saturday anyway so anything we forgot I would get. It was a long day for us, but we enjoyed it.