Christmas at the Mall of America December 27, 2009 at 15:02
I had a great weekend. Thanks to my wife, Becky, and my brother-in-law and his wife, I got to go see the Minnesota Wild host the St. Louis Blues and it was a great game. I had not been to an NHL game in a couple of years and I missed it dearly. The drive down wasn’t the greatest as we are coming out of a winter storm but we did alright. And, to make matters better, it wasn’t bone-chilling cold either. I got to wear my jersey down, which I hadn’t done yet.
After the game we stayed overnight in the Cities and today went and had a nice breakfast then walked around the Mall of America. I had never been at the mall near Christmas time before and I have to say it was very pleasant. There weren’t a lot of people there at all. We got to walk around and just window shop, Becky tried on some pants, we looked in the college stores, got some hot chocolate. All in all, it was just a very pleasant weekend.
The rotunda was decorated for Christmas and so I took the opportunity to snap some pictures, since I can’t imagine I’ll be at the mall near another Christmas again. They did a nice job decorating it. I didn’t have my tripod so I couldn’t take true HDR pictures, and it probably wouldn’t have mattered anyways since people were walking in and out of frame. I had taken a picture inside Crossroads mall and converted them to HDR but they didn’t turn out as good as this one did. I really like the trees.
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