Shopping for College

Yesterday was time for the annual 'shopping-for-college-but-really-we-just-wanted-to-eat-at-Arby's' trip to Waterloo.

With Kendra.

We gals did stoop to take Derek along, dropping him off at the John Deere's Product Engineering Building.

Hey...I know he's only 17, but it's never to early to submit your application!

Or, he could have been on a pre-arranged job shadow with two engineers who go to our church, hee, hee :-)

With gas prices so high, it made sense to combine the two endeavors.

So, after dumping dropping Derek off, Kendra and I headed over to the Goodwill SUPER Store. Through an unfortunate mental lapse on Kendra's part, she went towards the clothes and I made a beeline for the books, where I picked up most of these beauties before she realized her fatal blunder...

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (just a bit of wear)
The Riverside Chaucer (I couldn't be-LIEVE this find...looks to be a college text, in mint condition...costs 107 buckaroos at B&N. I paid one dollah)
Tales of O. Henry (great shape)
The Grapes of Wrath (Reader's Digest Edition...but still, looks never to have been read)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (found this in the children's department)
The Beloved Works of C.S. Lewis: Surprised By Joy, Reflections on the Psalms, The Four Loves, The Business of Heaven

There's a bit of a story behind the last book...even though we had almost THREE HOURS at the Goodwill store, apparently this wasn't nearly long e-NUFF, so after picking up Derek from his John Deere thang and debriefing him over our lunch, we dropped Kendra off at Goodwill and Derek and I headed over to the Barnes & Noble Bookstore :-D

Naturally, cheap Ma headed for the closeouts and bargains, where I found the lovely four book volume of C.S. Lewis.

*happy sigh*

Got one or two Christmas presents, but folks'll have to wait on that.

Another very gladsome purchase for Ma was four bags of black colored mulch for my roses...
...here are two of my 'Knockout' roses, which survived transplanting fairly well.

(by the way, I got the mulch at Wal*Mart, not the bookstore)

This might be a good time to describe Kendra's methods of shopping at Goodwill: she takes the WHOLE CART into the dressing room...complete with 15 pairs of jeans. (no, I am NOT kidding)

We're talkin' SERIOUS SHOPPIN', here. Kendra harbors dreams of us taking a motel room for the night and making a two-day project of the Goodwill Superstore.

I would need to bring boxes for the books, though...
 

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