It is official now - WMU and Austin will play in the Bahamas Bowl against Middle Tennessee State, at noon on Christmas Eve on ESPN. It sure beats the Potato Bowl that he went to in Boise, ID last year. After doing some research on costs to attend the game, it looks like it is out of our reach at this point. It would cost us $2200 for roundtrip tickets, including a plane change in Miami. There are no direct flights to the Bahamas from Phoenix. The real problem for us though, is that Josie cannot take any days off from work so close to Christmas. We will be cheering for Austin and hoping that Patty and her family will enjoy the trip and the game as a nice treat at Christmas.
Amazon.com came through for us yesterday. We had a very nice star for our Christmas tree that turned out to be defective. It was the last one that Home Depot had of that style and none of the other local stores carried that style. I ordered one from Amazon.com on Sunday, and it arrived yesterday as promised. Amazon.com just keeps getting better and better with their service and prices.
Speaking of Amazon, I saw on yesterday's news that, for the first time ever, shoppers have done more at on-line locations than physically at the store locations. That's probably good and bad. Seasonal employees at retail locations will most likely have shorter hours and some may even lose their jobs. It probably is good for traffic though.
Josie is off the next two days and there are lots of decorations that still need to be placed around the house. We will start, however, with getting the Ford serviced which is over 2,000 miles overdue. It's nice that we are into December now, as this is probably the happiest month of the year...
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