With misgivings and deap-seated fears, Jen and I set out for Hell—I mean, the mall, on Friday night. We didn’t actually buy anything, as I had to medicate her after a particularly long day (i.e. cellphone calls in the parking lot at 9pm) but after a delicious meal, all was good. We returned on Saturday to walk among the teeming millions, finding the majority of our gifts at the Target. Love that store. Sunday was spent finishing up a lot of last-minute ideas and following up on the few people we hadn’t chased down to that point. With the exception of Jen and a few other small gifts, we look to be about 90% done with the shopping. We also found that Williams-Sonoma is the centerpoint of the universe- in 15 minutes we met up with four different friends there.

We also got our first look at the new Apple Store up in Towson; it’s very well-designed and was full of people playing with iMacs and iPods. We were both very impressed with the hardware (Jen made an appreciative “ooooooohhh” sound when we looked at the 17′ iMac) and with the store in general.