Shopping and Hooters

We decided to start getting down to some serious shopping today, so Arundel Mills Mall was our destination. Our main focus was sports, computer games and music, but I still found time to buy a couple of books for light reading in Books a Million - The Gathering Dark by Christopher Golden and Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire (see my entry for Wicked below). I tried to find some new CDs by bands I'd found on emusic but the shops seemed to be a little too mainstream. After lunch, and not content with just the one mall, we located another one nearby (GPS is a marvellous thing!) and headed off to that - there was a large Dick's there and I bought some bits and pieces for the next football season - including some athletic tape in team colours!

The evening entertainment was a trip into Baltimore for a meal at Hooters - it was as tacky as promised, but although the girls were built appropriately it seemed they were just as bored as most other waitresses, at least the food was OK. After dinner we went to the excellent Barnes & Noble, built inside an old power station they'd retained the original furnace structures to add a bit of character - one of my favourite bookshops, didn't buy anything though. Next was a trip into ESPNZone where I managed to be awful at the 'throw the football through the moving holes' game and nearly as bad at the basketball shooting game, but all good energetic fun for up to four players.