Building a Bear

Today the weather was not so nice, that we could enjoy the sun. Instead we went to go shopping and building a bear.

So today we went to the Florida Mall today. We parked near Macy’s and M&M’s World. What we noticed was that a few M’s were gone. There is only 1 blue M left in front of the M&M’s World entrance.We went inside and looked around. Inside the store, there is still the NASCAR M&M’s Car. There are still a lot of clothes and other M&M things you can buy. We could not leave the store empty handed and left with some M&M’s.

From the M&M’s World Store we went to American Eagle Outfitters, where I found some jeans and shirts. After that, it was time to go and build-a-bear. Xandrine found a nice bear and named her Lucy. Together with the help of the Build-A-Bear employees she gave the bear a heart, stuffed her and washed her. After that the bear needed some clothes and accessories, so she had to go through the store to find the needed items. After having put on the clothes, it was time to put all the items in the box and pay for all the items and the bear. I think we spent close to an hour, or more, in the store, which was fun to do.

Then we ate some mini-dogs from Auntie Anne’s and shopped some more. In most shops we could not find anything to our liking, but managed to find some things in some shops. After a while we had seen enough and left the mall, to drive to the next shops. We went to some sporting goods stores, but could not find any decent shoes for me.

The last store we visited this evening was the Toys R Us store, where we managed to buy a backpack and food containers for Xandrine. Then we went looking for a place to eat. At first we were looking for a 4Rivers Smokehouse, but those are all closed on Sunday, so we ended up at Bubbalou’s Budaciuos Bar-B-Que. Xandrine ate all of her pulled chicken and tried all the sauces, going from sweet to killer. I had a Bubbalou’s Platter, which had ribs, chicken, sliced pork and sliced beef. This was more than enough for me, so could not finish it all. With that all, there were also french fries, baked beans (and they are sweet) and coleslaw. The food was excellent and Xandrine ate all of her chicken and left the fries.

Then it was time to go back to our hotel again as it was late in the evening again. Tomorrow is our last full day and we need to find some last items (and check out if our luggage is not going to be overweight). Depending on the weather we might go do something as well, but the last days we have had quite some rain and lightning.

Building a Bear