BRU - BUST

My friend Maria (among others) wondered how the VIP event at BRU went the other night. Well, in a word: crap. It was, yes, crappy. There was no red carpet, as promised. There was a line to get in (mind you, it was about 27 thousand degrees below zero), there was a line for the food (which looked like it consisted of an extra-long sub sandwich being passsed off as hors d'oeuvres), it was elbow-to-elbow crowded (I heard one salesperson say they didn't expect such a big crowd. Really? When you promise free food and giveaways?!), there was no free gift bag (it was shove-your-way-to-the-free-samples, which consisted of about three different things including a ... pen), and they claimed there was a raffle winner announced every half-hour but I didn't hear a single one in the entire hour I was there. To top it off, the coupons we got are the same coupons anyone gets. And worse, a rumor suddenly undulated through the angry crowd that BRU was giving 10 percent off our entire purchase, which was the only thing that could have made up for this fiasco. Alas, it was not true. A pox on whoever started that rumor. (I did buy two packets of on-sale onesies, though, and a pacifier. Woo-hoo!)

The only saving grace for the evening was that I got to spend some quality time with a few other girlfriends who are all at some stage in adoption themselves. And I got to hold Sophia. Yay me!