Shopping!!! (at the outdoor mall)

My favorite shopping buddy is my mom and we got to go shopping together last weekend! Yippee! We met at Applebee’s in Plainfield (because no girls-day-out is complete without food) and then went to the Ann Taylor Loft in the Metropolis shopping center. As many of you know, The Loft is my FAVORITE clothing store and the Loft at Metropolis is the best one around. However, the whole concept of Metropolis (an outdoor mall) is ridiculous! Whoever thought to put that kind of mall in a variable-climate area was a crazy person. The two times that mom and I have shopped at Metropolis, the weather has been crummy. We shopped there in January and it was snowing!!! The one good thing about it was that the stores weren’t very busy, but how can that be good for business??? (Again, I say, a crazy person thought of the concept) Last weekend, it wasn’t snowing, but it was chilly and very windy. Because of the weather, we only shopped at The Loft and JC Penny (we shopped at Penny’s because we had to walk through Penny’s to get back to our car). Parking is also a nightmare at Metropolis, causing customers to walk at least a mile (slight exaggeration) in the cold (if you happen to go on a day that mom and I are there) :) from the parking lots to the stores. Oh well, regardless of my ranting about the ridiculousness of the concept of an outdoor mall I still had a GREAT time with mom…as I always do when we’re together. I also got some amazing deals and cute clothes:) All-in-all, a good day!