Let's begin... shall we?

So I am at home tonight with the Girls, Son is off snowboarding with Daddy. 10 years in Alaska, and we NEVER did that. Now we scramble off to start the search at Target (of all places) to get some snow gear. In AK, we would never have dreamed of getting our gear there. REI, yes, Tarjay? No. (Never mind that we didn't have a Tarjay there, we still wouldn't have done it.) Being in So Cal, we couldn't even find gloves for him at 2 stores. We could get him some swim trunks with waves or flames on them, but no gloves. The gabbing stocking ladies at Wal-mart gave me some crazy look for wanting to buy gloves in January. The absurdity... I know.