Total number of stores* I or a proxy (read: husband, housekeeper) have visited today in an attempt to collect everything I need for the Alpha Retreat:25
*I will admit that this is not a process of driving from one mega-plaza to another. Many of these "stores" were stalls within the same market (inconveniently located in the town next door). Nonetheless, I had to "check out" a lot of times, a tedious process when you add into the mix that the person taking my money was also trying to simultaneously work with 2-3 other people.
