3.22.2009

Random Cell Phone Pics

I found a new mall in the San Diego area last weekend. It was another outdoor type mall, which is quite common around here. One of the things I notice was that the outdoor mall had all indoor dining, the giant food court and other restaurants were all inside. I expected an outdoor mall to have some outdoor dining. I walked around to see see what the food court had to offer, and what do I find inside the food court?......an indoor ice rink! And the ice rink isn't really separate, either. The rink is down a level, but there is no wall behind the nearest goal that I saw to keep a flying puck from hitting someone while they are eating.....totally bizarre.

This is one of the oddest things I ever witnessed.






To cap of a bizarre find weekend....The next day I walked out of the house that I live in to find two random ducks in the driveway. I have no idea how they got there or why. I don't know of any ponds around and there are two big barking dogs where I live, and I can't imagine the ducks had a playdate with them. But these ducks were walking up to the house like they were moving in.


One was a mallard duck (green head?) and the other was a brown duck. Just hanging out in the burbs.


This one was posing for photographs. I just kept walking right on up to me.


I used to have wild turkeys running around my old neighborhood in PA, but there were at least woods and a farm nearby. Vista, CA is much more of a concrete jungle/burbs area.

4 comments:

Marie said...

Hey Stos! Neat duck pics. THe hockey rink in the mall? We had one of those in TX. It keeps little kids entertained while they eat their lunch!

Thanks for the kind words about the kids. They are growing too fast, but are sweet...most of the time. :)

Kelly said...

Both are the same kind of ducks (mallards, yes), but one is a boy (green head) and one is a girl (boring brown). :)

Kelly said...

Also, I never saw it, but supposedly way back in the day (pre-1984ish) there was an ice rink in Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg. I think where the movie theater used to be.

Jim D. said...

Just a little history about ice rinks in malls. Back in the 80's there was an ice rink in Monroeville Mall. You can still see it if you watch Dawn of the Dead. So don't think your cool because you found an ice rink in a mall we did it, got board of it then removed it. ;) (Sorry) Also I just learned something about ducks today thanks Kelly. One last thing you better slow down on all the blogging your doing I can't keep up. (Does the sarcasm come through OK)