Oh, and did I mention the dishes??

Ryan, Katy and I went to the factory stores to look for DISHES!! Now, I have to say that I had not been a dish shopper in the past, but these girls CONVERTED me!  What a great day.  The pictures can't even begin to capture the breath-taking factory stores.  It's probably good that the day I went shopping, I thought that I would have to figure out a way to ship my stuff home...if I'd known that the military packed and shipped 500 lbs, I would have thrown away clothes shoes etc and shipped 500 lbs of DISHES!  My self-restraint was admirable (well, that's all in how you define it, I went $150 over my original target budget :)

but, as it turned out, quite unnecessary!!