Today we have put aside the day to set ourselves up with a GPS, cellphone and some heated gear. And to post some gifts and auction items for conference so we don't have to lug them around the countryside. So we head off to the mall in Orange at about 8:30am to find what we need. We arrive at the mall and the carpark is nigh on empty which we think is a little strange but find out why when we walk in the door and see that the shops don't open till 10am!!!! wow how strange! we wander around acclimatising and have a coffee/tea while waiting. There is no post office in the centre so we ask the guy at Nordstrom (coffee place) if he knows where ther is one nearby and he gives us the address.
Once the shops open we go to the Best Buy kiosk (small version of the huge ones we have seen elsewhere) and are served by Ruth, a lovely young lady who sets us up with a cellphone and some credit through T-mobile costs $70 all up pretty cool little flip phone. She then gives us the address of the closest larger Best Buy so we can get a GPS. We had a little look around the shops and see some amazing stuff apples covered in all sorts of gooey stuff, oreo cookies covered in chocolate and on a stick and flavoured popcorn. A lolly shop where they had a bank of hoppers with every different coloured M&M and no we didn't cave!! Breakfast at the hotel had been frosty flakes so we had had enough sugar for today.
We looked through Macy's thinking we would maybe find a GPS there but only saw clothes and homewares. We will definitely visit again on the way out though cause the clothes are soo cheap $50 for a pair of Levis! And I saw some beautiful dresses that I might get for the weddings :)
We ride over to Best Buy and start looking at the GPS and a server comes over his name is Albert and he is not very helpful or knowlegable (I know that is spelt wrong but brain is fried LOL) David had looked up the GPS at Best Buy on the internet and saw one for $89.99, Albert tells us that they don't have any of that one left but a BB on the other side of town has it so we get directions and go over there. We are standing looking at them when an assistant comes over wearing a shirt with Geek Squad printed on it and his Name embroidered on the front Jonathan P how funny! He is way more helpful finds us the unit we want and then says we need to buy an adaptor to connect the unit to the computer for charging so we spend a further $21.00 for that. When we get back to the hotel and open the GPS we didn't need the charger so we will take that back.
Lunch is sandwiches purchased from the small grocery store opposite the hotel, we also got some more bananas, apples and nuts we are trying to eat well while we are here especially seeing that the hotel supplied breakfast is sugar laden!!
After lunch we ride over to Irvine to visit J C Motors (I have purchased stuff from them and had it shipped to Australia so it was nice to meet them) to buy some heated gear. After talking to Mike for some time we decide to go with battery operated gloves with 3 heat settings and we decide against heated boot liners. I buy a pair of denim/kevlar jeans as mine had got too big so left them in Aus. Dave also gets two oil filters, one for an oil change now and one for later. And we also buy a tyre repair and inflation kit (hopefully WILL NOT be needed). By the time we finish at J C Motors it is after 6pm so we decide to stop at the mall not far from there for dinner and finish our last bit of shopping. We choose Chick-fil-a for dinner (we had a meal there in Kentucky last time and I remembered it was very good) they have really good looking salads and we are not disappointed. My salad had grilled chicken, lettuce, red cabbage, fetta, strawberries, blueberries, dried cranberries and a granola sprinkle and nut sprinkle with an apple vinagrette it was soo yum! Then we went over to Target for a few things it was kind of weird the shop shuts at 7pm but we were allowed in and there were still HEAPS of people shopping and we walked in right on 7 and even whern we went through the checkout there were still people walking in.
The day finished with a sneaky MGD (Miller Genuine Draft) in the spa mmmmmmm so relaxing!!
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| M&M hoppers |
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| apples covered in gooey stuff |
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| outside J C Motors |
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| Chick-fil-a ad campaign too funny |
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