I said I wasn't interested....

...but I did it anyway.  I went to THE Mall!  The Mall of America, that is.  A mall is  mall, right?  What could possibly interest me at the Mall of America that any other mall doesn't have?  Boy!  Was I wrong!

Sure, this mega-mall had Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory (and chocolate covered bacon!  I kid you not!) and Victoria's Secret (which I never shop at anyway) and Aeropostale (one of my daughter's fave clothing stores), it also had Life is Good (love this line) and a Harley-Davidson shop (no bikes, just the clothing and accessories).  But underneath it all, in the basement...it has an aquarium! 

Now I'm not taking a few fish tanks and open ponds with starfish to pet.  I am talking about open ponds, tubes with pretty neon-colored aquatic creatures, a tunnel that winds under the BIG fishies, and an indoor rain forest!  Who knew?  We saw manta rays and sharks and sea turtles and shipwrecks!  It was well-worth the visit! 

It also had amazingly huge creatures created out of Legos!  OMG!  I've never seen such an assembly of creatures, mostly fictional (I'm pretty sure the Loch Ness Monster is real!), from so many little plastic building blocks!  What?  I don't think I've ever even known anybody who has this many building blocks to put together! 

Hungry?  Not for very much longer!  Even the food court (okay, more like a food floor!) was impressive!  I don't even remember where we ate, but I do remember not being hungry for a long time afterwards!  Oh yeah...and pecan pie!

Gonna have to shop this off!  Multiple floors of shopping, eating, and attractions should do the trick!

I'm not going to bore you with all the shops and sights to see at the Mall of America.  But let me just say this... not only did I go, after saying I would never go to the MOA...I went twice!  Just didn't get enough of it the first day.  And I needed more chocolate covered bacon!