The Awesome Mall of America

 Located in Bloomington,Minnesota its one of America's  largest malls.Its  an ultimate paradise for shopaholics like me.
We  entered the mall after parking our car ....  the parking also was infact huge with enough place for anyone to get lost easily.There were directions and slot number we had to remember accurately to reach back to the vehicle or else we will be looking out only.
We enter and I was lost in the vastness of the mall.There was a big kids Nickelodeon Universe,a big Underwater adventure park,and unlimited options  of  food joints and shopping....
First day I only could have a glimpse of it but I obviously din't have enough of it so I had that inkling in my mind I am gonna visit this place many many more times.So I did.
It houses four super stores at four corners-Macys,Nordstorm,Sears and Blommingdales.Infact you enter through any one of these corners you feel like you have entered into a shopper's paradise...
I am a Macys fan.I like everything about Macys...the decor,the brands available,availability of my kindda stuff and so i became a Macys card holder eventually and I used to get special membership discounts too...The perfume section was Heaven I got many perfumes whenever I got a chance...Chanel was my fav then..I also like the wrap dresses by Donna Karen,Anne Klein,Alfani,NY&Co ...
Nordstorm was not one of my fav places 'coz everythign i liked was out of my budget and ...
Shoes were out of my budget in Macys ....So i used to window shop there and keep my fav designs and pattern in mind so that next time when i visit Knollwood mall's DSW shoe Warehouse I can get that in a lesser price.....Infact there's a DSW,Steve Madden and many more shoe specialty stores there in MOA too but those are in some corners and the DSW in Knollwood mall is far bigger than that of the MOA.
GUESS,BABE,GAP,Origins,Banana Republic,Forever 21,BATH & BODY,chicos,Club Monaco,Ed Hardy,Express,Famous Footwear,Fossil,H&M,Godiva chocolates,MAC ,Mastercuts,Nine West Orange Julius,Payless Shoes Source,Perfumania,Radio Shack ,Sephora ,the buckle,Sunglass hut,trade secret,things remembered,victorias secret,were the other stores i used to frequently raid.
Marshalls sometimes if i get enough of time after raiding the previous ones.
Then comes all those small stalls in the corridors and those hair extensions,kimono shops,nailfilers ,nail shiners etc knick knack shops...where we used to get shiny and glittery stuff shoes,accessories etc at affordable rates .
Then comes the food court it had a lot of options besides the food court there was the Bubba gump shrimp ,Rainforest cafe,Famous Daves,NapaValley Grille,ruby Tuesday,Twin city Grill,Qdoba  these were the places i had a chance to dig in..Each one was an awesome experience in American food with very cosy and warm ambience.Loved each of them.
Mall of America is a shopaholic's paradise which noone should miss......

Awesome Lafayette Galleries, Paris

My first trip abroad that too to my dream destination it was all a "Dream come True" for me .....
I will write about the Paris experience in a separate blog, this space I want to use only for describing about the Awesome Lafayette Galleries as there is so much to speak about this wonderful shopping mall.

We were put up in Accor Hotels and we took  the subway from most probably Place D' Clichy and got down at Haussmann Saint Lazare .We came out of the subway and could see the palatial Lafayette Galleries.I had seen shopping around in the US too but this experience was toatlly different.


  We entered the mall and looked up the ceiling was dome shaped and all carved in golden cut glass most probably. We were 6 of us and we were all lost in awe to enter this palatial mall.
It was 10-storied flagship store ,which was impossible for us to cover up in a day.Besides that we reached the mall only by 6.00PM in the evening and in Paris all the shopping areas gets closed do
wn by 7.00 PM.
We decided to have a quick browse through all that would be possible for us within that short time.
In simple words it was breathtaking.

We started off with the perfume section and each one of us got lost in one brand or the other Chanel, Burberry,YVSL, etc etc , you name it they got it obviously.Suddenly I turn back and I don't find anyone at all. We were fresh in college at that time and our first trip abroad dint even have our cell phones.It was really frightening about how to find my friends.Somehow we were able to find each other and then we decided that we will quickly glance through the fabric, leather shoes and bags section. Each section in itself looked like a mall. We checked out the awesome fabrics ready to stitch etc. etc...
By this time it was already 7.00 PM and we were forced to be out of the mall as it closes down by 7.00 PM.


After that we took the sub to the one and only the best Eiffel Tower at night. I dont understand why God had created Paris so beautifully , infact everything about Paris is so enchanting He could have distributed some of these beautiful things in some other locations too....
Eiffel Tower at night is awesome with the blinking lights and the orchestrated lights in the Eiffel tower.
We had one of our friend's b'day and we celebrated her bday at the top of Eiffel "lucky her" imagine "Bday at the top of Eiffel" one couldn't ask for more.
The cool breeze,the moonlit sky,awesome Paris at night WOW...!!!!!