Michigan Vacation- Day One

Yesterday morning, Carson woke up with a barky seal cough. I thought maybe we would have to spend the day at the hotel but he seemed to be better after breakfast so we headed out for the day. We decided it would be a mall day (aka, my kind of day) so we checked the GPS for the nearest malls and found that there were three nearby. We get to the first one and hubby's knee starts bothering him so we get him one of those electric wheelchairs. Carson got a kick out of pretending to push him.




Carson checking out a gigantic iPhone


A Kodak moment


We left the first mall, which wasn't a great mall in my opinion and headed for the second. From the outside it looked promising, but when we got inside, it was like time had stood still and we were transported back to the late 70's early 80's. The only modern stores they had were TJ Maxx and Old Navy. Caitlyn and I had gone into one store and the worker lady stopped us and told us that they had rearranged the store and then preceded to point out where all the different sizes were located. I guess that would be helpful if we were frequent shoppers to their establishment but being that we were out of towners, I'm quite sure we could have figured it out for ourselves. Caitlyn and I thank her and start walking. Then I hear her saying something about checking bags. I turn around and she is walking towards me, again, talking about checking bags. I had a bag from TJ Maxx so I thought she just wanted to check inside it. Instead she hands me a ticket stub and takes my bag. Ok? Never had that done before. She then takes my bag and puts it behind the counter. Caitlyn looks at me and says "Did she just take your bag?" We were both kind of puzzled by this. First of all I have never shoplifted anything in my entire life and second, even if I did, there was nothing in that entire store that I would be prepared to go to jail for if I got caught! Seriously. We're talking neon tops and 80's prom dresses. We look around all of about 5 minutes and then I go get my "checked" bag and we leave.
Meanwhile, the boys had discovered a game at the far end of the mall. You put a quarter in and it pushes all the other quarters and hopefully they fall over the edge. They played it for an hour and a half. No lie. It was hubby doing all the playing too. We were there so long that I had enough time to open Carson's new lego toy and put it together!

The Game- You see that $2 bill in the middle of the picture? That's what they were aiming for. They're big dreamers my boys!


Look at the joy on hubby's face! Like a kid in a candy store I tell ya.



Carson playing with his new toy while we wait



Oh and they had a train set that you could pay a quarter to watch it go around the track one time. WTH? Well I couldn't deprive Carson of the thrill of seeing it so I dug through my purse for a quarter.



The boys finally used up all their quarters. They were ahead by five dollars but instead of quitting while they were ahead, they kept going so they lost it all. At one point they had even had a crowd gathered around them watching! That right there should give you an idea as to how boring of a mall it was. When the greatest form of entertainment for other shoppers is to watch people feed quarters into a machine.

We finally left and headed to our third and final mall. I was disappointed with this one as well. However, I have never been to a mall that had so many Auntie Anne's pretzels. There were three of them and also two other pretzel places and it wasn't that big of a mall. They must love pretzels here!

Carson started feeling a little warm and I could tell he wasn't feeling too good because as we were walking he kept hanging on to my leg and then wanted me to carry him. So we left. Made a quick stop at Walgreens for some motrin for Carson and then went to get pizza to take back to the hotel.

Caitlyn waiting for the pizza to be done



Ate our pizza and by this time the motrin had kicked in for Carson, so we took the kids swimming.













After an hour of swimming, we went back to our rooms and conked out for the night.