Who says nothing exciting ever happens out in the boonies? Yesterday was the grand opening of the Cburg Habitat ReStore!

We planned to wake up bright and early to get there when the doors opened, but … come on… it was Saturday. We got there around 11:00 and the place was still hopping. The parking lot was packed, and there was a radio station bus and a soda company truck-type thing out front. The soda truck was bumping and bouncing to some tunes, and inside the radio station had set up more music. There were people EVERYWHERE.

The store had a lot of really nice outdoor furniture and some building stuff (and a racecar bed that I could tell Andy really wanted!)…but the place was getting close to bare even though I’m pretty sure it was packed full o’ stuff when it opened that morning. We talked to the volunteer who checked us out, and she said when she got there at 8:30 (store opened at 9:00) people were lined up to get in. They were just emptying those shelves like crazy. Fantastic!

We weren’t looking for anything in particular, but we did find a really nice faucet to go with the vanity and tiles we bought at the Roanoke Habitat ReStore a few months ago. Our bathroom is gonna be a Habitat-furnished room!

We saw the same faucet at HD for almost twice what we paid, so YAY! We also bought a pair of rubbery gloves because they were pretty…and rubbery.

After we paid and headed outside, we saw a line forming and we smelled food! There were free burgers, chips, and drinks! WHEE! And who was cooking up the burgers but none other than Mr. Kenney! (Admittedly, before that moment we didn’t know who Mr. Kenney was.) He was having a blast cooking up burgers with a speed to be envied by any barbecuer. Flames shot up as he flipped and turned burgers left and right. Yum yum!

We had a few more errands to run before heading home, but it was all pretty anticlimatic after the Habitat opening.