A New Record!!!!

We took a trip to Billings MT last Saturday, basically just to have fun and maybe buy a few things if we found the right stuff. But something happened, and we set a new all time record for least money spent, I think. We haven't been to Billings for several months. We used to go at least once a month and often more than, when our boys were home. It seems that we were always buying something for the boys we couldn't get locally. Normally it would be clothes, for Jason and Blake it would be dress pants or shirts for music groups, for Cody it was always athletic shoes, for Josh it was just clothes. Carol was sewing much more then, so a stop at the Bernina store was necessary. I just liked to eat out, which was always a treat and still is.

We were looking for a few things this time. We want to build or buy a fire pit for our backyard and have a small pond with running water. Carol has been researching all this online and we have looked locally but haven't found what we really wanted. We found several Chimeras but they are expensive and after discussing it we decided we really have everything we need to build our own fire pit, so scratch spending money on that. We found the parts for our pond but it is too late in the year (for Wyoming) to enjoy it much, so scratch spending money on that. What we did buy was a gift for a total of $6.45.

Lunch was at Applebees and the new Trio menu was big enough that we shared it. We did stop though for a huckleberry shake with chocolate ice cream at Rockvale. It is sooo good.

Maybe we are just losing our touch of spending money or we are perfecting the concept of having fun without spending much money. I hope it is the latter.