I spent yesterday night shopping at Metrotown at Metropolis for the LOULOU Shop 'Til You Drop event! It was a super fun night that a lot of people participated in. The participating retailers also went all out and hosted great parties in their respective stores. 

There was a huge lineup for the swag bags by the time I got there. Everyone got a bag though, which included a LOULOU magazine!

Find what you love was the theme of the evening. And Volkswagen Bugs were everywhere. If you didn't know, you could enter to win one by entering at the customer service kiosk at Metrotown!


The Grand Court was the place to sit back and lounge and watch performances and presentations when you got tired from shopping. The Metrotown Glee club gave several performances during the night.



There was a candy bar at the Grand Court. Metrotown provides you with the sugar you need for shopping!



LOULOU Editor, Liv Judd gave a presentation on fall trends at 7pm that I missed because I was eating dinner at Stonegrill. =( The mannequins were still there showcasing the clothing though.


The Social Media Haute Spot in the Atrium Court was the place to Tweet and Facebook - even if you didn't have a smartphone. There were laptops provided for shoppers to update their statuses which were posted on a live feed on a TV screen!



If you checked into FourSquare and show the Shop 'Til You Drop attendants at the Social Media Haute Spot, you received a cute foam Bug keychain! These were also included in some of the swag bags given out.


Now for the shopping! Forever XXI was crazy busy, with 10% off everything in store.


Almost all the stores had amazing discounts or gifts with purchases. 



There was another candy bar at Jacob. Also everything was 25% off!

 
The GAP had a 30% discount! Guests also had their nails done and enjoyed a frozen treat from Pinkberry! Yum!




Opus catering served up sweets and drinks at GUESS.



And GUESS by Marciano had live models standing in the display window!


What a night! It was full of deals and shopping fun! I say that 3 hours of shopping isn't nearly long enough! Can't wait for the one next year!

An exclusive West 4th shopping party night with special merchant deals and a cool party vibe you won't want to miss. Amazing parties, cool people, live music, and of course, GREAT deals to be had! This is the first ever after hour shopping event in Vancouver, modeled after similar events in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto and London. The event will be focusing on West 4th’s fashion and female-centric (yoga, spas, salons etc.) categories. 

When
Wednesday, September 21st
6pm - 9pm

Where
West 4th between Burrard and Balsam Street

RSVP to the Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=218948381494016

Best Buy released New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight series, just past midnight tonight. They had an ad that was delivered TODAY. Their marketing person didn't do a very good job. Nobody's going to look at the flyer on a Friday! Flyers are on the last thing on people's minds on Friday nights! Anyways the they were giving out hats or rings to the first 250 people in line. No more than 50 showed up. The Beat was there too playing loud music hoping to catch other people's attention. The lineup started at 9pm. This was the line up at about 10:30:
This was the ENTIRE line. It is very sad. The Best Buy staff were also playing games with people in the line and giving away $10 gift cards to the winners. There was trivia, dance competition, singing. It was fun. I won a gc for dancing my CRAZY dance! Hahahah!

It was a little weird standing in line with all the diehard fans of the book when I haven't even read one of them. And only having watched the first movie last week that I borrowed from the library, I answered a trivia question wrong.

There was a crazy Jacob lookalike there! He looks SO much like him especially from the side. I only got a bad pic of him but you be the judge. He won one of the three $200 giftcards for the dressup contest. Congrats to him! He really deserved it.
There was also a nice new moon out tonight. Pardon my pun. ;P

This year we had a white Christmas. It started to snow at about 11 in the morning on the 25th. So we just spent a quiet day at home as we had our Christmas dinner on Sunday already.

I was already eagerly awaiting boxing day...I slept early at 11:20. I fell asleep BUT woke up an hour later! Then I couldn't get back to sleep! So I just spent the night tossing and turning all the while thinking of what I'd get today. Hahahah!

I got up at 4:30am as Karen and I planned to be at the Metrotown BestBuy before 5:30. Our dad wasn't going to go this year but our mom made him come with us anyways! He dropped us off at BestBuy then lined up at Futureshop.

It was SO CROWDED! There were about 300+ people in front of us already. But we got everything we wanted. Hahah my credit card is going to blow up! We bought so many DVDs!

After we went to Lansdowne mall to for lunch and to check out the other BestBuy. It was SO crowded. It was so hard to find parking. There was this aggressive lady driver who STOLE our parking spot! Someone was leaving and we were in right spot to get the it. There was a car in front of us and SHE was in front of that. She had the audacity to reverse and wave at us to backup! >>>=( Stupid lady! Once you're past you can't claim the spot! The nerve!

Well, eventually we found a spot. We just ate at the food court since all the restaurants had lineups. Then Karen and I went off to BestBuy while our dad went to look for phones at Rogers and Fido stores. There wasn't anything much I wanted to buy anymore. It was still very busy there compared to Burnaby.

Heehee another productive boxing day. Tomorrow? Round two!