So the hubs and I went on a shopping splurge last night. Very unlikely of us, especially keeping in mind that we are headed overseas and we will have to store everything that we aren't taking with us. However, we had all these gift cards to bookstores... yay for X-mas gifts from students. We had two Northwestern bookstore gift cards and two Borders bookstore gift cards... so off we went. We got 4 books at Northwestern and spent $7.00 out of pocket money... remarkable considering how ridiculously expensive and overpriced that store is!
We contemplated going to Borders since we had gift cards and were in the area, but it was 9pm and we were tired (lame, I know). We hummed and hawed over it... but boy were we thankful we went last night because it turns out that it was the last day of the educator sale that they had going on, where we got an additional 25% off of everything (not just educator stuff). I am sure we would have been kicking ourselves had we gone Friday morning instead! So we got a Thai language audio CD program, 2 more books, and a sweet journal for when we're in Thailand. Total cost: $90+. With the discount: $60+. After the gift cards: $30. Sweetness. That was the cost of the Thai language program in itself.
We are pretty content with our good buys/finds and looking forward to some good reading/language learning.
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