Hi, Yorkiegirl - got back from sunny Bordeaux (to rainy Manchester!) this morning, had a fab long weekend with ggglimpopo and her lovely lovely family. Bordeaux is beautiful.
Now I am afraid I have some bad news for you - hardly know how to tell you when you were so thrilled when she posted - but after all that dd1 didn't manage to get your shorts . We both feel really bad about it.
She couldn't buy the ones she found in Boston because there wasn't enough credit left on her credit card. I paid some of it off for her so that she could buy them when she got to New York; she went looking for them again (knowing exactly what she was looking for now) and couldn't find any Champion ones - she said she found Wilson and Nike but no Champion. So she has come home without and feels very bad about it.
She knows you live in Leeds (from the Leeds meetup thread), and she will also be living in Leeds until next summer, so her first offer of atonement is to babysit for you if you would like her to - she has done it before and is very good with little ones.
Also, one of her US friends from summer camp is coming over here to university fairly soon (I think she said January) so if you haven't been able to get some before then she will get her to bring some.