Saturday 11 July

No photos today, too busy shopping!

I read about an outlet shopping mall called Woodly Commons which has about 200 shops. They are name brand stores including Coach, Nike, Armani, etc but they are the old stock etc that are sold at discounted price. Unfortunately a $600 handbag marked down to $250 is still out of my price range!!

Because it is heavily marketed to tourists there are a number of options to catch a coach there and back; given that that was $42 each we decided to take the train for half the price.

The train took us an hour and a bit out of New York, through some lovely areas with lots of hills and forests. We arrived in Herriman with the knowledge that we could catch a cab. Low and behold there were some taxis waiting for the tourists but it was an interesting scene as the train station is a small platform in a large carpark surrounded by thickly forested hills. There was not a house or business in sight! We had also missed the opportunity to get cash out and found out that we had spent our last bit on chips on the train last night. So we were in the middle of no where, with no cash, taxis that didn't take credit card and no idea which way we were heading.

We declined an offer of squishing into the boot of a hatch back that already had 6 other people in it and waited for another offer. We finally got ourselves a lovely young taxi driver who was willing to stop at an ATM on the way and had enough room for us to have our own seat.

The shopping was good, but with so many stores I needed double the time and ten times the money. We did manage to get some bargains though. I found a handbag and 3 pairs of shoes and Phil got the best deal of the day with new footy boots for $20, needles to say he bought 2!