o on a tip from one of my friends from Cool Beanz, my girlfriend and I decided to try out Toys R’ Us since we’ve been placing our bets wrongly on Bestbuy, Gamestop, Target, and Circuit City. After honey sent me a bunch a listing of toys R Us numbers during work hours, I called a bunch of Toys R Us’ and found out that they would have a shipment of Wii’s in the Huntington store near Walt Whitman mall on Sunday morning. Thus, we decided to make a go for it on that Sunday morning, since I wanted to bring it to my parent’s house and give it to my brother as a present.
On that Sunday morning, we both arrived at the Toys R Us one hour before it opened, and there was already a long line situated outside for the Wii; it was mainly populated by parents who probably have been frustrated time and time again trying to get Wiis for their kids. Anyway, honey and I waited on the line during the 20 degree weather, and about 25 minutes into it, I decided to hit the Mcdonalds and bring back the food for both of us. I made care to get some fruit stuff, because she’s into health food much more than I am (although I should be getting into it…it’s just junk food is so fun…)
After our fabulous breakfast meals, I told her to go inside the car and warm up for about 10 minutes, since she was on the line the whole time I was getting Mcdonald’s. Once she joined me again, the Toy R Us minions let the whole line in and wait inside the store, where we formed another long line. Of course during this new line wait, I got a little bored and decided to check out the music equipment at the store (specifically for a toy xylophone). I couldn’t find the xylophone, but did check out a little bit of the guitars.
Anyway, to go back on track, the line, although a little slow, went very well, and we both got the Wiis. I convinced her to get one so she can give it as a present to her sister’s husband, who we hung out with during New Years Eve. I picked up an extra controller and nunchuck controller, and then called my mom to let her know we got the Wii. She in turn picked up the Legend of Zelda and Rayman at Target, under my suggestions (it was a little selfish though, since I wanted to play both of those games anyway).
At the apartment, honey took Polaroids of the Wii with the two munkis we got from Old Navy, and I giftwrapped the one I bought. Fast forward to 7 PM, where I gave the Wii to my brother for his birthday present after pretending I didn’t get him the Wii, and he was super stoked about it. He ended up setting the system up after our birthday dinner (spaghetti and Hooters wings…yum…) and we played each Wii sports game except for golf. My favorite game so far was the bowling game, which I tried out during Superbowl Sunday when Izzy brought it to the house, and my adoration for it hasn’t abated. For the next couple of hours, I played the bowling game, trying to get better and better at it, till I hit 5 strikes in a row once and got a 231 bowling score! Oh yeah!!!
I also tried out the Zelda game, which at first I wasn’t really into, but as I kept playing it, I started to really like it…I can’t wait to go back to my brother’s place and steal the system from him for a while….but you didn’t hear that from me…
