Shreds of My Existence: 2nd Semi-Annual Mall Trip!!!!!!!!

Wednesday Ashley and I went to Eastview mall (conveniently located across the street from a Starbucks and an Olive Garden) while my mom had lunch with friends at Olive Garden. Last time, our friend Josh came with us, but he had his senior pictures this time :'( It wasn't the same without you, Josh (but it was still AWESOME!). The last trip we had was December 2009... haha

From 11:30 to 1 we ate lunch in the also-conveniently-located food court (we saw a seeing-eye dog that made my day), wandered JC Penney and the rest of the mall, and took illegal pictures of beautiful things. I put on make-up behind a hat rack in the middle of JCP, tried on hats, and played with stuff in Claire's...
Then we went to Starbucks and each bought a Venti Caramel Frappaccino... :) Happiness to the max.

We sat in the sitting area on a couch together, and talked about everything- stories by Ashley, stories by other people, nieces and nephews (hopefully in the near future), the huge group of deaf people and how we wanted to learn to communicate by sign-language, and we watched people. We laughed at (and with) people, guessed names for people, and just watched them walk- some walked fast, some wandered, some held hands (we even saw a few elderly couples ;), some walked only on the gray squares, some skipped, some talked on phones, some wandered back and forth wearing scary bear hats, and some signed as they walked... it was awesome. I love watching people.

After two hours of hanging out and just talking and laughing and drinking coffee and watching and listening, we got a call from my mom saying she was done with her lunch, so we packed up and moved on.

After the mall, we went to a good friend's house, gave her something I was supposed to give her a week ago, and then on to my aunt's house. Ashley and I talked to my cousin for maybe 30 minutes, just sitting around enjoying our silliness and my cousin's cat, then off to home we went!
It was an epic day at the mall, I would do it again and again, especially if I got Starbucks every time!

Ashley also blogged about our epic trip- here!!!!!