Mall of American- the facts, the visit.....

Yesterday Grant, Sarah and I visited the Mall of America in a suburb of Minneapolis. I needed a 24hr break to rest and reflect before I could document the visit.

The facts: 525 stores- all in one undercover mall (the largest in USA), 40 eating places, and a 15-screen cinema complex, bowling alley, underwater world, and contains an amusement park (Camp Snoopy) at its centre. If Somsri (Thai friend from Camp Calcium and reader of this Blog) visited I doubt we would every see her again....

The MOA has 3 main shopping levels- large circles-with the 4 department stores at its 'corners'. Each level of the mall is is 0.57 miles long. G and S and I walked all 3 levels (this was Grant's quest....)- and so we estimate we walked ~1.5 miles (2.4 km) in our 3 hour visit. Amazingly (or maybe not?!) we did NOT purchase anything in MOA except our dinner at an Italian restaurant and 1 Krispy Creme doughnut (that we shared).




The Photos show us in front of Camp Snoopy(we intended to do a specky photo merge of us into one photo- but we haven't got to that yet!) - the amusement park in the middle of MOA.


Apparently more people each year visit Mall of American than Disney World, Graceland and the Grand Canyon combined. Hmmmm ....as other common names for the Mall are Sprawl of America, Megamall, and my favourite Mall of Hysteria, lets just say I think it will be my one and only visit and I suspect the same may be true for Grant and Sarah!