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| - "I'm going to the country sun shines down on me"- Bruce Cockburn
It must have been a 25 minute drive from Calgary, through wheat fields, under the awesome blue sky stretching 180 degrees. Today was the day we would check out the new mall at Cross Iron Mills, but I didn't realize that we should have packed a picnic lunch too.
Upon seeing its profile in the distance, it was far from being a lonely grain elevator! It was huge and was beautiful. Although hundreds of other folks had the same idea this weekend we did not have a problem finding parking for the car which is a really nice plus.
This is g-normous mall, is oh so shiny inside, but what impressed me the most however was the interior design, were those the rib bones of a prehistoric dinosaur hovering over our heads, and was that the food court or a food park. It literally had the cleanest and shiniest of floors and the widest halls to manoeuvre on and in.
I was most intrigued by the stores that were inside. Forever XXI, Bed Bath and Beyond, Tommy Hilfiger, BCBGMAXZARIA and tons more.
The thing that may be the most attractive is the sheer novelty of it all, it's a nice thing to do, you know go for a drive and head to a mall, but the novelty may eventually wear off. I mean I like malls that don't take 30 minutes to get to; I like to go to a mall that is near to me, to get what I need and to return home to do other things. They didn't have that many exclusive stores, and I didn't really get my shop that on.
So all in all, it's okay; it is a likeable adventure through the country and I give extra kudos for it being the first mall in 20 years built in Western Canada
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