It's about 5am on the 28th November 2008 and we are lazing in bed in our hotel room in New York, just off Lexington Avenue.
We are on the 11th floor and we can already hear the noise form the street outside as the city comes to life. The hooting of car horns, the growl of their engines.
I flick on the tv and meander thourgh several tv channels, cartoons, infomercials, weather forecast's(cold) and finally come to rest on of the morning shows.
The story the insanely happy anchor was talking about was Black Friday.
Today.
Today was the day that America goes sale crazy, in fact some stores had opened at midnight the night before.
''Are you sure we are chooing the right day to go there?'' said Graham.
He was referring to Woodbury Common - an outlet mall just outside New York.
''Yes'' I said bravely.
Gulp.
