DGCon Day 1a
By JoeBruin88. Filed in Life and Travels |Tags: Apple, Bubba-Gump, conference, Desiring-God, downtown, Life, Light-Rail-Transit, Mall-of-America, Minneapolis, shopping, train, transit, transportation, Travels
Since I was in Minneapolis a day early, I decided to visit the famous Mall of America, the largest shopping mall in the United States. After a nice breakfast downstairs, John and I boarded the LRT at about 9:00 AM. It only cost $2 one way for the 25-minute ride.
The weather was okay, a little overcast, but not totally freezing. To keep my ears warm, I wore my cool beanie for the first time.
Not really knowing what to expect at this mall, I was anticipating this huge amusement park thing. And as you enter the mall from the parking/transit center, you enter the amusement park area.
There’s a couple of other attractions like a shark aquarium, Lego play area, and an AMC movie theater. Soon after arriving, John and I had some coffee at Starbucks. Unfortunately, part of our conversation irritated me severely. But I tried to just ignore it the rest of the day.
It would be very difficult to walk around to all the shops in this gigantic mall. The most interesting store that we visited was a Halloween Express. There were all kinds of cool costumes and masks, as well as other interesting and strange get ups like fake boobs. I won’t put the picture here in the post, but you can see it in my Flickr set. I thought this ugly, scary clown was the best masked thing in the store.
A very cool highlight of the day was eating at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. John and I split a shrimp appetizer plate, then had a salad. The atmosphere and decorations in the restaurant were cool. It was kinda like a TGI Fridays, except all about the movie Forrest Gump.
Another highlight of the day at the mall was visiting the Apple Store. I’m sure Apple groupie, David, will appreciate this picture of me wearing my favorite t-shirt, the “Bad Monkey”.
