Haul from the Mall
On Saturday, instead of weeding or painting the hall, we went to the Aurora Mall. It's an old-style enclosed mall, with air conditioning; and we had the best time. For one thing, this mall is not just stupid clothing stores--they actually have toy and dollar stores, interesting food, a game store, and a book store. So there is stuff to see and do. It was also full of people shopping and hanging out (there are couches). There is a Merry Go Round, a sandpit with kid-sized beach chairs, a place where you can take your food court food and picnic on the floor, a fun squirty fountain, a place to paint pottery, and a huge play area.. that I am not sure what sort of play things are in there because it was totally covered with kids. There are also cart vendors of various kinds of odd merchandise and coin vending machines (which offer endless amusement to watch kids either work the machines or try to extract coins from their caregivers to feed the machines). There is also an "Orienta...