Shopping

There are a few things that are encountered while shopping that seem strange to an American at first, but are easy to get accustomed to. For instance, you usually take your own shopping bag or sack in which to carry your groceries or other items. When I go grocery shopping alone, I take a smaller bag than when I go with Hein. This is because I discovered quite soon that if I take the bigger bag, I get enough groceries that I have a difficult time managing the weight of the bag on the way home. So now I buy groceries by the size of the bag rather than the size of my wallet. And since the market is only a few blocks away, I only need to buy groceries for a couple of days at a time anyway.

Many of the stores have restaurants and I think this is wonderful! Not grocery stores, (not that I've seen yet), but others such as larger department stores. How wonderful to be able to relax during a day of shopping and sit and have a cup of tea and piece of pie or a great lunch without hunting for a restaurant. Many of them even have patio seating for use during good weather.

We were at a garden center recently which was the largest, most extensive garden center I had ever seen. It can be compared to the size of a Home Depot in the U.S. Not the garden part of Home Depot, the whole store! I could spend days there and not see everything. And it had a restaurant. It was lovely sitting there among the plants eating lunch. Also, I've never seen so many different varieties of plants. Well, this is Holland, after all. There were just so many gorgeous plants that I couldn't decide what I wanted for our garden. I'll work on cleaning up the garden first, then figure out what I want to put there.

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