Finally. Hallelujah! Silver has been bought. After ten hours and 57 stores were checked out:

Meanwhile, I kept enjoying the waterfront, the sunshine, the gentle wind, the...

the everything.

And where was Wayne in all this you might be asking.

He had FAR more patience that I. He did the stores with them, commenting, nodding, making those sounds that indicate he was engaged in the project...

A good man.