The Harrisburg Mall

I've thought about blogging about the Harrisburg Mall several times, but the blog needed to include pictures, and I was admittedly a little fearful of getting kicked out of the mall for taking pictures. That happened to a friend of mine when I was in middle school. She was taking pictures for a school project and security escorted her out of the building. Today I saw something though that I just HAD to blog about.

I rarely go to the Harrisburg Mall. There are several malls in the area, and the Harrisburg Mall attracts two main types of people. 1) Harrisburg city people. (Yes, i live in Harrisburg, but not actually in the city.) In fact there was a shooting outside the mall about a couple months ago. 2) Rednecks. There is a big Bass Pro outdoor shop as one of the anchor stores. It looks like a lodge, and you can buy everything there that your little outdoorsy heart desires: deer stands, boats, cross bows, bait, and other things that I don't even know what they are. In fact, they have shopping carts that look like NASCARs that kids can ride in.

If that's not redneck, I don't know what is. Since I fall into neither of these categories, I choose another mall to go to. BUT Bath and Body Works is having their semi-annual sale, and since Bath and Body Works is my crack, I go to as many Bath and Body Works as I can find. Hence why I was at the Harrisburg Mall this morning. In the end of the mall where the Bass Pro shop is, they have a bunch of stuffed wildlife. Such as this bear.
No that is not in a Natural History Museum. That is in my mall. At one point, they have a little pond, that has fish in it. Not goldfish like a normal mall pond, but trout or carp or some other game fish that I can't identify. There are some rocks stacked up in the middle with a waterfall running down them, and a giant stuff bear on its hind legs at the top of the waterfall. (You're jealous your mall doesn't have this as well. I know.) Today, I saw a woman manage to cross the pond, scale up the rocks and was having her picture taken next to the bear. In the words of Danielle "people are stupid."