girl day

Makenzie and I declared today GIRL DAY!!! We made a great itinerary with the main excitement being the Downtown Saturday Market.

We started our day with coffee and coffee cake at the flower garden on Delaney Park Strip. This is my "oops! i didn't quite make it into the timer picture" picture:

but look how cute Makenzie is:

Here we are enjoying our yummy breakfast:

Next, we went to the Saturday Market . . .
. . . where we walked around for two hours and got Makenzie this Ocarina flute . . .


. . . and this beaded butterfly coin purse . . .

. . . and this butterfly bracelet for me:
We also got several of the vendors' business cards so that we could look up their web sites and decided that we need to go back there another time because we didn't have time to see everything that we wanted to see.

Next we had to run into Walmart for a few things, but Walmart is right across the street from Barnes & Noble where Makenzie could hardly wait to go get this amazing book about Egypt:

Next, we went to the gas station so that I could win $60 in gas by answering some trivia questions for the local Christian tv station. And then we went to Hacienda for lunch. I was trying to hold the camera out to take a picture of us and our delicious food (because I had forgotten my little table tripod at home), but the hostess offered to take our picture. It turned out much better that way:

After lunch, we went out to Target real quick before going to Value Village (our favorite store :-) We spent a little too long in there, though, because we barely made it to the library before it closed. I wanted to show Makenzie the reading room where we'll spend some time another day reading with a beautiful view in some comfy chairs. When the library closed, we went outside by the fountain to play Uno and Racko. Once again, someone offered to take our picture so that we didn't have the extended arm/too close/huge faced picture:

Makenzie walked around the fountain examining the water droplets on the leaves:

We came home to have pancakes and eggs with the boys (who had boy day while we were having girl day).

Makenzie's "funny" for today was mixing up the names of the places we were planning to go. She kept saying that we were going to the "supermarket" instead of the Saturday market :-) And then she said that we were going to "Village Inn" instead of Value Village :-) We laughed A LOT all day!! Girl Day is GREAT!! We should have these more often :-)

So I just read this blog and realized that it sounds like we had a super boring day, but the truth is that it was a SUPER FUN day!!! Shopping, library, card games, looking at water droplets. A whole day with my beautiful daughter. It was really a perfect day :-)