The New Mall

Just to show you how interesting my life is (with a hint of sarcasm), my family made a trip over to the new mall called Maadi City Center. It reminds me a lot of a Wal-Mart Supercenter crossed with a small mall. They have a grocery store called Carrefour (something French, any ideas out there?) that has not only food, but also toys, tires, electronics, you name it. Just like a Wal-Mart Supercenter, except everything was in Arabic.

The mall part of it was filled with the typical clothing and shoe stores, a Radio Shack (yep, we have those too!), and a few cafes. The food court is forthcoming, but it looks promising. They even have an indoor playground where parents can take their kids if they are good little shoppers. Yay for not having to deal with screaming kids in the supermarket!

I didn’t buy much, just a bag of oranges priced at LE 1.50 per kilo (US$ 0.40/kg), you can’t beat that! I haven’t had any yet, but they look like they’re fresh off the tree. Woo hoo, and yay for fresh Egyptian fruit! I did take the digital camera along and grabbed some photos *insert big geeky grin here*.

Most Egyptian markets don’t have grocery carts, but this place did. Not only did they have them, but they actually had cart corrals out in the parking lot!! I know this sounds totally dumb to everyone else, but indeed I was impressed! And like any other middle class activity, everyone was dressed in their “Sunday bests” and were on their best behavior. Can you imagine wearing a suit and tie to your local mall? Yeah, I was a bum and wore jeans but felt underdressed the entire time.

I keep promising to post the pics to my online scrapbook. I’ll do that soon, I promise.