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I avoid Black Friday shopping every year. It's a time where everyone, I mean everyone, is out shopping after the Thanksgiving. Long lines, bad parking and "apparently" great shopping deals. I prefer Cyber Monday. I sit back relax my pajamas while I surf the net for tech deals.
This time, Daily Press sent me to cover for the Virginia Gazette at Williamsburg's quaint shopping areas, New Town. I didn't see lots of hoppers with multiple bags. Everyone I've talked said they did shopping on Thanksgiving Day or just avoided shopping all together.
Pro tip for shoppers: The best time to go shopping is at Midnight closer to 3 am in the morning. Many shoppers are already sleeping and Thanksgiving door busters deals extend till Black Friday evening. I think it's a better deal then staying in line at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Reserve your time with family.
Pro tip for photographers: Scout your locations earlier in the week. Small businesses are willing to have you around, then big box stores. Bath and Body Works didn't want me in to photograph inside the stores, but was OK with me outside the doors.
Whats was your best deal that you got from Black Friday shopping? If you didn't go shopping, what other actives did you do? Sleeping till 3 p.m. counts.
I didn't know what to expect when I visited St. Louis, Missouri. My best friend of over 12 years wanted to visited an area we both didn't see before. We have visited majority of the East Coast on our own and most of the Google plane prices were a little over $300 for a weekend. We wanted something cheap and fairly new, and so we found MO for our weekend vacation.
St. Louis was beautiful and quiet for majority of the city. But most of the hustle was at the baseball stadium with the Cardinals vs. Cubs. Sadly, we were never baseball fans - and didn't have tickets either. But, we did find the fountain to be oddly bright orange, which signifies Cardinal's color.
What we didn't expect is how extremely nice everyone was to us. My friend always compared themto people of DC, who were more unspoken. We got into the Botanical Gardens for free because I caught an elderly's hat flying off her head due to the wind. It was nice she bought us tickets.