The Ultimate Mall

Today we went to the Mall. Of America. This place is not so much a mall as a indoor city, complete with restaurants, sporting goods shops, clothing shops, book shops, coffee shops, hobby shops, sweet shops and even an aquarium. And the whole 'mall' is built around an amusement park. This place has every kind of shop you could want. It's huge. And I've got to admit that it's pretty awesome. I found a few shops that I liked, including an old school shaving shop called The Art of Shaving and also a games shop. But despite all it's huge awesomeness, 2-metre tall Lego statues, aquarium, restaurants, amusement park rides and many departments stores, it's still just a shopping mall. It's still hard to find the things you want, the food is still mediocre and there's still an inordinate amount of people making it very hard to actually buy anything. And ultimately, it's just one more extravagant shrine to consumerism.