Friday morning greetings! I'm back from my local Vera Bradley retailer, where I found several bargains both for myself and for gifts. Richard drove me out there last night at midnight for their "Midnight Madness" sale, which was, indeed, madness. I told him just to drive on by and I'd be there when they opened at 9am today. Apparently they had 100 women waiting to get in at midnight and in 2 hours sold $6000 in merchandise. At least they didn't sell the one thing I really, really wanted: