The Delta House

We took Jake to the mall the other night to get some pictures done for Christmas. I mean, what kind of parents would we be if we didn't get some good pictures of baby's first Christmas, right?

So we went to Sears and the little man put on the charms when the camera started flashing. We got some really great shots then Jake decided that he'd had enough and wanted to nap. We sat down with our photographer and started looking at the "Holiday Special Packages". Three hundred bucks later, we have our keepsakes. And since I got the picture CD, I will share some of them with you.

But first, I need to tell you about the mall where Sears is located in Warwick. It is called the Rhode Island Mall, and it looks very similar to a ghost town. Other than Sears, Walmart and Kohls, there can't be 10 other stores in the whole place. It's empty store front after empty store front. And there are no people in this mall. Ever. The most you will see is when the DMV license renewal place is open during the day, and those people are not spending any money in the mall.

Why is the mall so empty? Because there is another mall located less than a mile down the street called the Warwick Mall, and all of the people and stores are there. Now I don't know which one was built first, but what genius looked at that area and said, "You know what this town needs? Another mall!"

I guess that they figure it works for Dunkin Donuts in New England, so why not a 200 store mall? I mean, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Dunkin Donuts up here. In Boston, at the Downtown Crossing MBTA station, there is one at street level next to the subway stairwell, and one at the bottom of the steps. Oh, and one on the other side of the tracks so no one has to walk up a flight of stairs to cross over and get some Munchkins. And get this, they're all busy!

But I digress.


Without further delay, here is the little man...