Rock Store

We love to visit the rock store, but we don't go very often. It's been months, maybe even a year, since we last visited. We went there yesterday afternoon, squeezing it in after math and before super strings, trumpet lessons, and dance.

Our favorite store is Nature's Jewels. They have lots and lots of rocks, both in the raw and polished. They sell many of them by the ounce and they give you a little identification card with every type of rock you buy. Because of these two things, it can take quite a while to check out! Knowing their procedure I had the clerk start processing our purchases as soon as the kids chose them, but Viva kept adding and adding to her pile. She had to put the last two rocks back because we had run out of time. (She made me promise we would go again soon.)

Here is what they purchased:

I told the kids I'd pay for the first $5 of their purchase. Lincoln and Evan came in well under $5. Jake chose a $10 rock and Bentley two rocks, $7.50 and $3. Viva was the big spender and her total was $16.75, but she said it included some gifts.