Shopping for nothing...

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Me and my sister, quite inseparable. It breaks my heart whenever I have to say no to her, and although she would never be caught alive admitting it, I know she feels the same too. So if she asks me to go to the mall, I drop whatever it is I'm doing and we go to the mall. There's one thing that concerns me about this though. It will take hours going around, and the day will end with us empty-handed. I remember one time, she said she plans to buy a pair of shoes. We would go around the mall, into the shoe shops, and she'll ask me if the shoes suit her or not. At first, I'll give her feedback, agree and disagree here and there, but then as we move from shop to shop, she'll try on every pair she could get her hands on, and I just grow weary affirming and contradicting whether the shoes suit her or not. When I get tired, I basically just say yes to anything she asks. Is it nice?-- yes. Does it suit me yes?-- yes. What color should I get?-- yes. And despite the repetitive questions, we still come out of the store with nothing but ourselves. When we reached the last store which we haven't checked yet, upon finishing trying on shoes, she'd say, "I can't find anything to my liking. Maybe I'll just get a pair of jeans instead." She asks, I bicker and complain, we still go to every store so she could try it on. In the end, still nothing. We usually end the day doing our groceries, and that takes us about an hour or two. We'll load a trolley with groceries, but then before we line up to the cash registers, she'll start removing things from the trolley until it's just almost half, if not almost empty. The thing is, whenever she asks me out, I knew these would happen. I knew how the day would end. I knew we'd be just wasting time. And this is the same with her. She knew I would be irritated. She knew I would bicker. She knew I'd be frustrated. But at the onset, I am always willing to go, and she won't ever hesitate to ask. I think what this tells me is that we sort of just wanted to be out together, and we're just basically using "shopping" as an excuse to go out. She would enjoy my complaints while she's shopping around, and I would enjoy how she hops from one store to another. At the end of the day, we will talk about our escapade and laugh at loud at our own craziness. We were using something as an excuse just to enjoy each other's company.