Post-Cape blog, plus birthday gifts and mall finds!

LaVaughn had to go to the pain clinic Wednesday for her quarterly injection, so we decided to go up on Tuesday, stay the night at the hotel and do some shopping. We stayed at our favorite hotel; Auburn Place Hotel & Suites and even got our favorite room this time! I'm going to leave out what room number it is due to the fact that I have a stalker now, but we'll leave that for another blog.

After we got checked into the room, we did our usually mall run where we were able to find some AMAZING deals -- who doesn't love out of season clearance items? Maurice's and Old Navy are our go-to store when it comes to hitting the clearance. Especially if you're looking for style and comfort. We snagged a few Christmas gifts as well -- I also got LaVaughn's other birthday gift that I've wanted desperately to get her from Hot Topic!

After we spent a couple hours exploring nearly every single store in the mall, we called it quits for the day and headed back to our room before 7 PM. We had planned on hitting up Target and Petco, but decided to go there after the injection.

We ordered take-out from Olive Garden again, only because we've been dying to try the Tour of Italy and the Northern Tour of Italy (this one was mine). Of course, it was amazing. I'm a huge fan of their Alfredo and Tortellini. The salads are mediocre, in my opinion. They're overrated $1 bags of Dole salad mix that you get from the market. Where are the baby greens?? The salads are free, so I'm not complaining.

Luckily LaVaughn's appointment went well and we were able to hit up Target (more Christmas items), Petco and Walmart for household items and more groceries than I care to admit.

Of course, we were homesick all night last night and badly missed our cats and other furry critters. It was nice to get away for a day, though, but I still prefer to be home. I'm a homebody -- nearly a shut-in!

I've stolen pictures from my Instagram to share, but they're really nothing special. Hope you enjoy!

Our room and a couple pics of the hotel:

The mall and their giant wreath:

Maurices:

And lastly, our amazing takeout from Olive Garden:

Late night recap...

Yeah, I know I wasn't planing on blogging until next week, but I know something will come up and I'll be a week or two behind again. So, since I figured out how to embed pictures from Instagram, I thought I would do just that. So, here we go--

Home away from home. #auburnplace #auburnplacehotelandsuites #hotel #travel #traveling #bed #beds #linens #cape #capegirardeau #iwannagohome #imissmybabies

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 27, 2016 at 1:28pm PDT

So this happened today. #mall #themall #westparkmall #shopping #nofilter

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 27, 2016 at 7:49pm PDT

So, @keeperofrealms and I are NEVER allowed in Macy's ever again. #macys #themall #mall #westparkmall #shopping #icanteven #myeyesarebiggerthanmywallet #handbags #sunglasses #nofilter #prada #gucci #calvinklein #guess

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 27, 2016 at 7:53pm PDT

These hakuna matata necklaces are just perfect. #hottopic #thelionking #hakunamatata #necklace #themall #mall #westparkmall #shopping #nofilter #infinity #infinitysymbol

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 27, 2016 at 7:58pm PDT

There was a 75% off sale at Maurices today. We got 4 shirts for $20 today -- such a steal! #bargain #savy #deal #maurices #themall #mall #westparkmall #shopping #nofilter

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 27, 2016 at 8:00pm PDT

Are you guys aware that there's something called a CARAMEL WAFFLE CONE Frapuccino?!? #itsmagicallydelicious #starbucks #coffee #frapuccino #caramelwafflecone #caramelwaffleconefrappucino #delicious #yummy #nofilter

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 27, 2016 at 8:18pm PDT

Parting is such sweet sorrow, but I am SO ready to go home. #homesick #hotel #hotels #auburnplace #auburnplacehotelandsuites #cape #capegirardeau #travel #traveling #bed #beds #nofilter

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 28, 2016 at 9:34am PDT

Sub level! O.o #garage #parkinggarage #sublevel #basement #concrete #creepy #eerie #underground #zombies #apocalypse #saintfrancis #saintfrancismedicalcenter #cape #capegirardeau #hospital #nofilter

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 28, 2016 at 11:27am PDT

Suits. #suit #suits #hospital #capegirardeau #cape #saintfrancismedicalcenter #people #guys #men #walking #hallway #turning #meninsuits #nofilter

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 29, 2016 at 12:47am PDT

And we're off!

I'm really, honestly trying to stay up to date on this blog, but it's hard. It's especially hard when I don't really have anything exciting to blog about, so what's the point of blogging about nothing?

This will probably be my only blog this week, as LaVaughn and I are leaving for Cape tody. We won't be home until late tomorrow evening, then I have to work the rest of the weekend. So it'll be some time next week, as long as nothing comes up.

Here's to more blogging! Fingers crossed I can stick with it this time...

-Megan

We're going on an adventure! Not really, but @keeperofrealms and I have to go out of town today for her appointment tomorrow. #funfun #packyourbags #priceline #travel #traveling #hotel #hotels #doctor #nofilter #reservation

A photo posted by Megan Pritchett (@madamemagenta) on Jul 27, 2016 at 10:51am PDT

Post-traveling update, plus things in the mail and our Old Navy haul!

It's so nice to be home. I haven't mentioned that yet and I know that won't be the last time. We didn't get home until almost 9 last night and we were nearly starved to death! I was SO unbelievably glad to be home, it was unreal.

We had decided against going to the mall when we finished eating Monday night, then decided we DID want to go around 7:30. It was 15 til 8 when we got there, so we had just over an hour to look around. We went in several store and didn't buy one thing.

I've also come to the conclusion that Macy's and JC Penny are ridiculously expensive. That and we're cheap.

We had over an hour to burn before LaVaughn's appointment, so we went to Best Buy and looked at lenses, Big Lots -- creepiest store in the world, and Hancock Fabrics. I wanted to buy SO much, but decided against it considering we have loads of fleece at the house.

After LaVaughn's injections we went back to the mall and window shopped for a while. We ended our trip by going to Old Navy, which LaVaughn was against, but went because I wanted to go. She quickly realized what a fantastic decision it was we we found that everything was 50% off in the entire store! Omg, I LOVE Old Navy!! We ended up getting 10 different shirts for just over $60! Can you believe it?? Such an amazing shopping experience.

We stopped by Walmart before we left town and grabbed some things, then finally headed home. It's SO good to be home, wow! I love staying in hotels, but I'm such a homebody -- I'm miserable anyplace else.

We got our fleece from Joann's today -- remember the 18 yards of solid? -- which sparked interest in organizing all of our left over fleece. We've cut out nearly 1 dozen pouches for ourselves out of scrap fleece! This is just what's left after we sew cage sets. I didn't finish cutting them all, but I got most of them. I also cut out a couple cage sets to sew tomorrow, should be fun.

We also got all of our Petco stuff in the mail today. Well not all of it, they didn't send our water catcher for the rats -- idiots! We're planing on fixing the boys cage up tomorrow, can't wait!

I guess that's all for now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Pictures from Tuesday:

(Parking garage at the hospital, super creepy)

Our hotel room before we left yesterday:

Burning time by shopping:

I love Best Buy.

Everything in Big Lots is so janky.

Hancock Fabrics, my home away from home.

Elevator in the parking garage.

The gift shop: 

This is a nursing station in the mall!! O.o

Old Navy finds. SO awesome!

This was a crow in Walmart - so weird!

Love coming home to this!

Pictures from today:

(all the solid fleece that we got from Joann's)

All of our Petco stuff for the rats:

Cinnabon creamer - SO delicious!

More gifts to wrap!