Shopping during a vacation???

Today was the Holiday Party for the Student Affairs division at work. During the luncheon, I was sitting with one of the administrative assistants for our office. We were talking about my upcoming trip to Italy (he he he - it's really all I talk about now) when I mentioned that while we were going to Milan, we would probably be doing our shopping in the outlet mall outside of Florence. Milan would probably be too expensive but I read that they had good deals at the outlet mall on the big designers.

Pat was amazed that we would want to go shopping on our vacation. She suggested that we do something else because she just couldn't imagine going shopping. She apparently does not know me too well. I would plan a trip just to get in some good shopping - especially if I was shopping for shoes!