Walmart and the Birthday Party

For those of you who don't know this little fact, I loathe the Walmart here in Ithaca. For different reasons than you might think, however. It's huge - not a Super Walmart (yet - thank you God) but huge in it's own right. And, it's not set up in a pattern that makes any sense to me. I can never find anything in it and get lost, frustrated, and on the verge of a panic attack EVERY time I go in there. It also smells - now I can't tell you what it smells like, but it just smells......badly. For those that don't know this other little fact about me....I don't do smells, nor does Jacqueline. So here I am with 3 kids in tow (kids who desperately need to go back to school) in my huge, smelly, disorganized, anxiety-producing Walmart to get Camp Rock birthday party supplies for my dear oldest, Jacqueline. We finally find the &$@* party section and she sees the Hannah Montana party stuff and the PINATA that goes with it and bing.......we're doing Hannah Montana now. Ok, so you might not think this is such a big deal HOWEVER last week we were at our decent sized, non-smelly, well organized, usually non-anxiety producing Target (we're regulars there - Jack says we make a "daily deposit" there and that they might go bankrupt if we ever move away :) !) At this lovely establishment was the SAME EXACT HANNAH MONTANA PARTY WARE THAT WE JUST BOUGHT AT WALMART!!!!!!!!! Now I had tried desperately to convince her to get this at Target last week but NOOOOOO she had to have Camp Rock. So I have put off going to Walmart (which I might also add is on the OTHER side of Ithaca!!) to get the Camp Rock party crap for a week because I really, really dislike going there and when I do finally muster up the courage to drag my sorry butt there, we end up getting the same stuff they had at Target (Actually I put it off longer than that - the girls also wanted 3-D glasses that they only had at Walmart for the Hannah Montana 3D movie and I never went to get oh, about 3 weeks ago!! Also suckered in to buying the bluray disc of the movie complete with 4 pairs of 3D glasses this morning at Walmart.....) I love my kids, I love my kids, I love my kids...............But I STILL don't like Walmart!!