Today we drove a few hours on to the Mall of America. http://www.mallofamerica.com/Along the way, we stopped to make lunch and parked near a small building, that turned out to be the town hall for a community. The entire building was perhaps 15 by 30 feet in size, tiled glass windows a few places for light. Sort of an interesting space to imagine what sort of important decisions for the future of that community may have been made there. We called our respective mothers to wish them a happy day, and wandered on.
From there, on to MOA. Huge structure, the largest indoor mall in the USA. Apparently during the long winters, this is the place you go and pretend that it is summer. They have an amusement park in the center of the structure, an indoor/underground aquarium and 500 stores. Problem is that even with 500 stores, about 498 of them are the same stores that we have seen in ever other mall, either duplicated, or in some other way slightly tweaked as if to make it more digestible for the regular public. Delilah and Dave went on some rides, while B attempted somewhat unsuccessfully to shop for clothes. Delilah likes the rides - on one mild rollercoaster she looked over at me and said "I think I like this!" I say "I'm glad, because your mom doesn't like rides, and it's been rather lonely at the parks" to which the lady in front of me cracked up.
The other highlight of the day was Delilah got her ears pierced. She was remarkably stoic about the experience with only a heavy blink when they did her ears, no crying, no complaining, nothing, which was probably at least partially due to Barbara doing a little "work" on D to distract her. Obviously, D is a girlie girl... We'll see how my granola eating, tree hugging, Barbie hating sister responds :)
Off to another KOA- this time a well appointed place, with a really friendly owner. Tomorrow, a little time to play in the AM, and then off again.
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