I didn’t go to aerobics this morning because I’m just barely getting over that monster cold. It has nothing to do with the fact that Kohl’s sent me a 30% off coupon good on my entire purchase that starts today. Ok, it may have had something to do with that, but the sick excuse still stands. So, after dropping John off at preschool, I headed to Kohl’s to see what I could find. I found some GREAT clearance items, especially in shoes. I bought the cutest boots in “Megan pink” (it really says that on the box) for the girls. They are in Megan’s size, but I’m sure she’ll hate them because, after all, they are boots, and they are pink. But I have two more girls coming up after her, and for $11.00 minus 30%, that would make them….somewhere around $7. Wow!
In wandering around the store I found a few other things to make my bargain happy self smile. I was just heading to the kids’ clearance racks, when the lights started to flicker. Interesting. I’ll just continue looking at these two red shirts to see which one I like better; I mean at $7.99 minus 30%, I could probably get both, but–Yep, the lights came back on, and I continued on my way. Then they went out again for about 5 seconds. No worries, they came back on. Then they went out again, and after about 20 seconds, a nice Kohl’s employee comes by telling us all to go to the front of the store, please. What? But I’m not done shopping. I was just going to see if there were– “Please, everyone, go to the front of the store.” Darn.
So, they herd all these women to the front of the store (there are never any men shopping there, I wonder why? Oh, yeah–they all must have jobs or hate shopping or something like that), and the cashier is franticly checking someone out. Apparently they have a few minutes of computer power when the power goes out and they can ring a few lucky people out. But alas, the computer also went dead. Nina, the sweet sales girl told us that because of all the new businesses opening up around there (in the Meadows in American Fork), every time a store opens up they usually have some kind of a power outage. Usually, she explained, it comes back in about 5 minutes. So, we could put our stuff on hold and come back later, or we could just wait. Well, I’m not in a huge hurry, so I just wait. After all, I had all my stuff spread out on the counter ready to check out. The lady behind me said, “I’m just glad I don’t have my kids here. They’d go crazy.” Amen, sister. That’s why we do this without kids. One poor lady didn’t have it so lucky. She’s pushing a double cart with two kids in it, plus she was wearing what looked like a tiny baby in a sling. How can she even push the cart with that thing on?
Anyway, I digress. After about 8 minutes, they told us that the manager decided to close the store. We all had to leave our precious items and come back at some later time, but for our trouble, nice Nina would give us all an additional 15% off. Wow! I guess I can come back later for 15% off.
When I left, I found that it wasn’t just their store that was out of power. Even though Smith’s (across the street) had power (so I could buy my Cheerios for 50 cents a box), all the lights along State Street in American Fork were out. So, whatever construction was going on, they must have really hit something big.
So, have you experienced a power outage while shopping before?
They played with those balls in the tubes for a very long time. 
They would have stayed longer if I hadn’t dragged them on to the next station. John especially liked the building zone where he could operate the little crane, 
and Natalie enjoyed being a letter carrier. Jenna had fun in the farm, and playing in the water, and Cole and Megan tried the rock climbing wall. 
    
Oh, how much I would have enjoyed it if I weren’t sick. Yes, I was still very sick, and went through my whole stash of Kleenex. I had to resort to using long strips of toilet paper I pinched from the bathroom. I looked a sight, too, what with my red nose and super chapped nose and lips. I’m sure the kids and other parents were scared.
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