Where the heck is everyone?

So, as you can probably imagine, George and I have done some shopping in the last few days. There were lots of big and small things that we needed for the new place. There's a mall in Selinsgrove (8mi south of Lewisburg) with some weird department stores that we've never heard of like Bon Ton and Boscov's, and also a shopping complex with a Best Buy, Target, Michael's, among others. We've been to the complex with the Target twice now, and to the mall for the first time today, but both times we've noticed that absolutely nobody is at any of them. You'd think that noon-time on a Saturday might be a fairly busy shopping time, but it was pretty deserted. At both shopping areas there are HUGE parking lots, and it all seems really unnecessary because they'll never need it. Where are all the people? We concluded that they huge lots are for the big piles of snow created by all the plowing. And there are tons of plows. There was one doing the lot by Target, and there was probably less than an inch collected since the last time he went through. The plows mean business around here.

We're also starting to realize how foreign we must look to some people. Today, George was wearing his softshell coat, and his new waterproof Keen shoes, and I had on my fancy rain coat, and my hiking boots...These are things we normally wear, and in Seattle, nobody would have blinked at it.

Well, when we were in the RadioShack today, the clerk asked George "Where did you get those shoes?" George replied "Oh, at REI", and the clerk gave us a blank look and said "REI?" Yeah...he had never heard of it. So we told him what REI was and that we just moved here from Seattle, and he was definitely in awe of us...kind of like he'd never seen anything like us before. He probably hadn't.

That's the post for now, George is working on one too...with some pictures! I start school on Wednesday, and have yet to get to know my way around campus, but I'm hoping to meet up with Don soon, for a little tour... I'll let you know how it all goes. Oh and we don't have the Internet at home until Friday (we're at a cafe right now) So the posting and e-mails might be minimal until then.

I miss all of your faces!!!