December Girl's Night Out

Every December our scrapbook/project night group of friends put away the paper and trimmers and go out to dinner and shopping at Gardner's Village. There's nothing quite like the ambience found in all the little village shops. We had fun browsing through the Christmas General Store and of course, dinner at Archibald's is the best! We had just finished shopping and been seated at our table when Kristen and I both got that awful feeling you get when you find something that you REALLY like and have been looking for, but didn't get it. For her it was a purse and for me it was a charm-type necklace. Both were at the same store so we excused ourselves and ran back just in time to find the door locked and a closed sign. It was 8:01! There were people still inside, but the dumb clerk lady refused to acknowledge us and let us in. We were determined though. We waited and froze till one of the customers came out. We peeked in and promised that we didn't want to browse and knew exactly what we wanted and were ready to buy it and be out of her hair in 2 minutes. She must have had a date or something because she was not very gracious but let us in! Whew! We felt much better. We had a fun gift exchange after dinner and talked, talked, talked, all the way home! I love these girls!