November 8, 2014

Orange Park, FL

Monte begins working at 7:30 so today on his day off he was looking forward to sleeping in-but his allergies kicked in and he ended up getting up earlier than he would on a work day.

Our goal today was to find a new pair of work boots for Monte.  His old boots have been talking to him for a while now

There are no stores nearby to the park we are staying at that sell boots so we drove 30 miles to Orange Park to the Boot Barn. 

I was impressed with the selection and variety of both work boots and cowboy boots available. 

 

 

 

 

Monte liked the very first pair of boots he tried on.  But just to make sure there wasn’t a pair he would like better, he tried on several other types of boots. 

 

 

 

 

After a half hour, I told Monte that I was going to sit in the car reading and he should take his time.

When I said take your time, I meant take another 15 or 20 minutes.  An hour later he came out of the store empty handed.  WHAT!

 Earlier we had agreed that our budget could handle boots in the $70-80 range.  The boots he wanted were $109.99. 

We discussed it and decided spending the extra money on good boots was worth it.  I had planned on us going out to dinner.  We probably would have spent at least $40.  Instead we ate at TacoBell for less than $10 and that made up the difference between our budgeted amount and what Monte ended up spending.