"Epiphany, from the Greek word Epiphania, meaning "revelation" is based on the biblical story that tells of the Magi or Three Kings - Caspar, (or Kaspar or Gaspar) Melchior and Balthasar - who saw a bright star on the night Christ was born and followed it to Bethlehem.
There they found the Christ child and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
The legendary visit would later gave rise to the custom of gift giving at Christmas on the Feast of the Epiphany, today traditionally observed on January 6."
One should also get gifts for this magical day, don't you think? Well, we did. We bought a ridiculous amount of luxury bath towels. When we had visited my parents over Thanksgiving, we were introduced to the wonders of such towels, but at $25 a pop, we decided we would just dream of them. I search the internet for knock offs and "found" a $10 version. I ordered 4 as a trial pair. They were false and wrong and over priced normal towels.
Then, on Wednesday, my dad called with good news. Macy's, the seller of such fabulous towels, was clearing out some of their discontinued colors at a ridiculous $9 a towel. We stripped one store of all their dark towels only to hit the jack pot at another local Macy's. We took a time out to get a little Cheesecake Factory goodness. It wasn't my favorite Cheesecake Factory experience, but it was cheap. Back to the towels. . .while trying to figure out our actual purchase, a sales employee kindly pointed out to us that the sale was ending right then and to get ourselves to the cash register. We made it just in time and brought home this load:
