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It wasn't quite the shopping trip i had planned but i still enjoyed myself. My friend couldn't make it for our planned shopping excursion so i rang up mom and asked "do you want to go to Chapters?" ... stupid question. She picked me up and we hit the shelves. I had 80 dollars worth of gift cards and spent almost that much again but i did get a birthday present for Mom while i was picking up things including a couple of half price calendars and a date book for work. Got two new Diana Gabaldon hardbacks, both about her secondary character Lord John Grey, and another large book called "Sun Kings: A history of magnificent kingship". It's about the lives of a number of great rulers of history and puts their lives and acheivements in the context of the time and place where they lived. Not hugely in depth of course because you could do that in a book all of it's on, one on each of them. Some of the people included are Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoelon, Alexander the Great, Louis VIX of course, Cosimo de Medici, Augustus Caesar, Ramses II, and quite a few others. They look at kings, queens, emperors, popes, sultans and princes from ancient times to Victorian. Lots of pictures and illustrations. it's a bit "Reader's Digest" but it's a good overview.

We went into Future Shop as well and she got a portable dvd player that she's been wanting. Lots of toys and sales in there!

She took me home to drop my bags of books and then we went back to the mall so she could try to exchange something and i went off to find a purse. Still couldn't find what i wanted. I think i might have the luck i need at Kelly's luggage in Park Lane so i'll head up there at lunchtime or after work one day. I picked up some boxed cards, photo frames and photo albums for my trip photos and a few grocery items i needed. Had to get two more items at the corner store on the way home.