Good Buy!

Wow!  This is a day Erin would have loved.

SK worked in the temple until noon and then we went shopping.....and I do mean shopping.

Our first stop was a loppemarked....I think I spelled that correctly.  It is a weekly flea market held in the parking lot of Frederiksberg's parking lot.  People go in and set up tables and put anything they want out to sell.

There are always crowds of people milling about looking for something.  We joined the throng.  I am still looking for some sweet little dessert plates that will always remind me of Denmark.  I am also looking for some very special little figurines.  You never know what you might find.  Of course, most anything else we might purchase will be abandoned....left in the apartment for the next senior missionary couple to discover and use....or toss.

It was a beautiful sunny day with high friendly white clouds.  There was a lovely breeze.  I wore my light rain coat which kept the chill of the wind at bay.  We wandered among the tables and crowds, picking up items to look closely....asking prices, visiting with other would-be customers and even making a purchase or two!  The whole experience was delightful.

As luck would have it, we found a parking place down the street....right in  front of our favorite bakery.  Well, of course we had to pop in and make a selection of all of the mouth-watering pastries.  We took everything back to the apartment, had lunch and set out again.

Our Costco wannabe had a smoking good sale on very large almost-decent flour tortillas and some salsa which was probably made in New York City.  ("NEW YORK CITY!  Get the gun!"  -- you would have to be kind of old to remember that salsa commercial.)

This coming week we will serve our usual meal on Thursday evening, and then both Saturday and Sunday we will gather in the center to watch sessions of conference....(8-hour delay).....and will have meals both days.  On Sunday we will have quesadillas, and on Saturday hot dogs with accompaniments.  So on Thursday we will have chicken pot pie.  Hopefully these will be meals that will come together easily.

We purchased 6 dozen tortillas but they will be expiring soon, so I am going to make chimis out of 4 dozen of them...wrap them up, freeze them and then fry them up on some upcoming Thursday.

We went to IKEA to get some things that will be of great use in a couple of weeks, and the prices were good.  Then we went to a large grocery store on the outskirts of town...it has a parking lot!  Erin, Ethan and I discovered it while they were here.

They had chocolate chips for half price!!!!!  Do you know what a find this is when you are baking for young people?????  They also had our favorite brand of butter for half price, and several other products that we frequently use at the center at great discounts.  It was a super end to our shopping day.

We came home, put the groceries away, cleaned up our flea market finds, ate dinner and are now preparing for a beautiful Sabbath day.

One of our sweet YSAs told me that no matter how busy she gets, she always takes the time she needs to read the Institute lesson, and she doesn't study school work on Sundays.  She is carrying a heavy load in school, but she is getting along well.  She is very bright.  She said that she needs the lift she gets from Institute and Sundays.  Not only is that remarkable to me, but it is inspiring.

Inspiring because I realize that I could do better to make the Sabbath even better....beginning with getting into bed on Saturday at a reasonable hour!

Good night....