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| The residents sure are friendly here Ruth pets a shark at the Mall of America |
Whose idea was this? Which one of us is the Queen of the Mall? I'll let you guess. We planned to stop close to Minneapolis today
anyway, so we ended our driving day at Bloomington, Minnesota, home of the Mall
of America. At the time it was built, it
was the largest mall in North America, but recently our Canadian neighbor surpassed
it with their West Edmonton Mall. Still,
it was the first mall in the world with an amusement park so this achievement
at least deserves a place in retail history.
The Mall of America sits in the middle of a gigantic parking lot, but we
discovered we can walk there from our hotel, the Marriott Courtyard. What
can I say? It’s a mall, with the same
stores you find in any other mall in the country. But it’s just HUGE with four times more of
everything. The people watching is
great. A carnival atmosphere pervades the place, as if its sheer scale insists that it can't be taken seriously, so LIGHTEN UP! It’s not a bad place to get your tacky on and revel in it for a few hours.
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