Freaky nice people!

So we have run into this on prior trips, but I experienced it acutely yesterday. I had a gift card to Payless shoes and there is a shop just around the corner from us. So K and I went shopping.

Upon entering the store we were greeted with several hellos from both store personel and other customers.... strange enough, but let me continue. The sales lady asked me if K needed to have her foot sized and I replied that it was more a trip for me. She got all a-twitter and asked what I was looking for and what size I wore. Then she asked if she could show me their stock. For 5 minutes or so, she helped me find shoes that would fit the bill, then suggested I try on the ones that interested me, and that she would be available to do anything I needed. This was PAYLESS! and I was treated like I was at a high end shoe store.

K needed a longer, light weight coat so we went into other stores. When a sales person wasn't acting like we were the only people there, the other customers were chatting it up with us. Very Very different. It does come at a small price - checking out goes a tiny bit slower when they find out you just moved to the area and want to take a minute to give you a hearty welcome. ;-)

Tonight the plan is for K and Mark to go to the Winter Hawks game. Tomorrow, we will be out bright in early to go house hunting. We have 12 houses on our list, but have seen a couple on a prior trip. The focus will be on 9 houses or as many as we can get to out of the list. Some that I am hoping to see are:

http://www.home-sellers.com/propertydetail.html?mls=RMLS&listingid=9080045
http://www.home-sellers.com/propertydetail.html?listingid=10006632&mls=RMLS&pn=214
http://www.home-sellers.com/propertydetail.html?mls=RMLS&listingid=9081222
http://www.home-sellers.com/propertydetail.html?listingid=9071414&mls=RMLS&pn=7

Wish us luck!