Steps to Getting Groceries

10 Steps to getting groceries in the US (~30 min)
1. Find keys, wallet
2. Get in car, open garage door with a push of a button
3. Drive to store
4. Get cart inside store and fill it
5. Pay. They bag your groceries with store bags
6. Take cart to your car, unload groceries into the car
7. Put the cart back in the "Return cart" spot
8. Drive home
9. Unload groceries from garage to your house
10. Close garage door with a push of a button

Getting groceries in Albertville (~ 2 hours)
1. Find key to bike lock, wallet, bike helmet, bike basket, bags for groceries
2. Unlock bike which is in the basement, walk bike up a flight of stairs and outside
3. Attach basket to back of bike. Load with bags and purse
4. Bike to the store
5. Lock bike in bike rack
6. Get cart by paying a Euro into the slot in the handle to unattach it from the one in front of it.
7. Fill cart. Consider it a victory if you only walk through the aisles twice.
8. Pay. Try to speak a little French and understand the number of Euros they asked for.
9. Panic. Throw all groceries back in the cart as fast as you can so the next person does not have to wait on you.
10. Take cart outside to the bike.
11. Wonder how you are going to fit it all in the basket.
12. Wonder why you bought so much food
13. Carefully put the groceries in bags and the basket so that the eggs don't break and the fruit doesn't smush. (~10 min)
14. Unlock bike
15. Awkwardly balance the heavy bike and carry bags while pushing your grocery cart back
16. Awkwardly balance the heavy bike while you put the grocery cart back with your third hand and retrieve your Euro
17. Bike to the next store to get the 3 items that were not found in the first grocery store.
18. Lock bike
19. Carry in heavy basket of food and bags. Put the groceries from first grocery store behind the counter at the customer service desk
20. Repeat steps 7-9
21. Wait in line at the customer service desk to get your other groceries back
22. Repeat steps 10-14
23. Bike back home (the fun part!)
24. Go over a speed bump and hope nothing falls and the eggs don't break
25. Yell up to your open 3rd floor window for help in carrying groceries
26. 2-3 people come down to carry all the groceries up 3 flights of stairs to the apartment
27. Take bike down the flight of stairs and lock it
28. Walk up 4 flights of stairs
29. Put away groceries
30. Throw pizza into oven because you are too tired to cook the food you just spent the afternoon getting.

 Repeat every 3 days