Minneaps - Day of Lucky #2

So where was I? Oh yes, Minneaps - Day 2: Mall of America

The day started out beautifully - sunny, and warm with a breeze...I even got a quick workout in (What?! Who said that?! haha. I've changed). Then we were off to the mall...

I won't bore you with the minute details of each and every store I visited, but suffice it to say my Day of Lucky continued and I got some very nice stuff...

Urban Outfitters is a really cool store to visit - I don't look at the clothes so much as the other fun things they have there. There's a great selection of books and albums, and cool little toys (like a lot of KidRobot stuff) and other novelty items like Moustache bandaids or PB and J key covers, or magnets that look like Iphone apps. I love junk like that! For guys they have a really funny and electic selection of t-shirts...like these ones:

(But we didn't buy any this time...but yeah, aren't they funny?! I love them)

Anyhoo...this summer I also seem to be very into harem pants, so I bought another pair...I hope they're still in this fall (lol). I also got a dress from Gap, who happened to be having an extra 30% off the lowest price sale. It ended up being...$5.58. Yeah. For realz. And it's a nice dress - like, something I can wear to a party even. I love shopping in the States.

For lunch we decided to eat at Crave in the mall. The last time we were here we had this shaved rib-eye pizza that was SO good. So of course my husband had this restaurant on his must-eat list this trip. (I had checked the menu online previously and I didn't see this pizza on it, but I didn't have the heart to tell him that it might be gone...plus I didn't know for sure if it was gone, so I figured we could ask when we got there...) So when we went he scanned the menu and couldn't find it...uh-oh. So he asked and of course it wasn't there anymore but he did end up having this steak sandwich which he was more than satisfied with.

I just had some chicken mushroom fettucine alfredo pasta which I guess my husband didn't deem good enough to take a picture of (haha) but was delish nonetheless. We walked off our meal with more shopping but this time for gifts...

And then, in our quest to pretty much eat everything off the must-eat list we had a little shnackeroonie at The Magic Pan. This place is in the middle of the mall and always has a line-up of people because they have really yummy crepes. They have savoury ones such as Chicken Divan or Ham & Cheese, but we needed to satisfy our sweet tooth so we ordered a strawberry crepe, which was filled with strawberries, and whipped cream and the banana nutella crepe which was bursting with bananas and drizzled with nutella and topped with whipped cream as well. Now normally, I don't care for bananas. Ask any one of my girlfriends at work, who usually have bananas at break. Seriously, they all eat bananas at break. They all tell me that bananas are great and they're pretty much the best fruit because they have everything nutritious in them and they're cheap. I really just can't stand the texture or how they sound when people are eating them...or even the smell. Seriously. If you have bananas (my husband always buys them for himself) and you put them close to bread or anything like that, it starts to smell like bananas. Bleh. No tanks. Don't get me wrong, I do love a good banana bread, now and then...though for awhile I was totally turned off from banana bread because my mom made it constantly...because our bananas would get totally ripe and no one would eat them and so she'd of course make banana bread...etc, etc...How the hell did this post turn into a rant about bananas? ANYWAYS...

so the banana nutella crepe is one banana thing that I will deign to eat :) It's delish. I think it's because of the combo of nutella, crepe and whipped cream though.

Again, he didn't bother taking a pic of my strawberry crepe. But it's prolly cuz I demolished it immediately.

After this sugar high, I crashed quickly and needed a nap, stat! So we went back to the hotel so I could sleep for a bit...shopping and eating is hard work I guess. I woke up to "I Love You, Man" on tv. We hadn't really seen it, but it looked pretty funny, so we watched it for a bit before leaving for...what else? Dinner. What a life, huh?

We decided to go for sushi at a place not too far from our hotel that we'd previously eaten at before. We lucked out because they were having a special of 1/2 price sushi for the summer! Normally their speciality rolls were around 15.00, so 1/2 price was a pretty good deal! And we weren't disappointed. It was great quality and tasted wonderful. Mmmmm....sushi...

So another great end to the day...we were hoping "I Love You, Man" would be on again (since TBS loves to repeat their movies) to make the day perfect, but alas it was not to be. Oh well, perhaps tomorrow...

2 more days of eating and shopping...to be continued...