The Mall

Canberra is definitely a driving city, so after our presentation in Canberra there were limited places for us to go. One of the places we could walk to was the mall. Actually, the mall was rather fascinating. First of all, we walked in the door and the mall was decorated for Christmas! I mean, the U.S. does Christmas early, but this seemed REALLY early (though it must be said that Australia doesn't have any major holidays between now and Christmas, so there's nothing to slow it down, like we have Halloween and Thanksgiving). Also, they had a nativity scene! In the mall! They would never have a nativity scene in a mall in the U.S.! We had our picture taken with it, which I will post later.

So the mall had all the normal things in it, but also quite a bit more. There was a butcher in the mall, two grocery stores, a place that sold fish, and all kinds of interesting things. It was so much more than a mall!