Tonight, downtown Ann Arbor hosted Ladies Night.

It was great! KS and I headed down to find a place to eat and decided at Blue Nile, an Ethiopian restaurant, it was fun and tasty. They bring everything out on a platter and you eat it with bread and/or your hands. (I don’t normally take pictures of my food, but here you go!)
http://www.bluenilemi.com.

After dinner, we headed out in search of ladies night activities! We started at the first store and got our “passports”, a card that had about 30+ stores on the back and as you go to each of those stores, you get a stamp or sticker and after 15, turn the passport in by 10pm and be entered to win a prize!

We also got a blinking ring, who wouldn’t love that? Shopping, discounts and bling, bring it on! The cool thing was to see all these blinking things all over town, especially when there were little groups together, very fun!

Each of the stores and restaurants participating stayed open late and offered at least 20% off the entire store, great incentives! The thing we enjoyed the most was getting to go into the stores we don’t normally get to go in because by the time we go out to dinner, the stores are closed.

The only thing I bought was at a book store, 2 brown paper wrapped books “Blind Date with a Book” there are three clues to what the book is about, but you won’t know until you open it! I got one for me and one for my sister, I can’t wait to find out what they are!

We had a great time, and made the decision that since we couldn’t get to all the stores, we would get together Sunday, go downtown, find some food and then go to all the stores we didn’t get to, anyone want to join us?

What a great idea! Opening up the town, giving people access to wonderful shops, getting people downtown who might not normally go into stores they might not normally go to and it felt fun to walk around and enjoy the evening. I think all smaller towns should do this every few months.