The Alligator Store

Last Friday, I'd been telling Jenna off and on that we'd be going to the mall the next day. Later in the night, she began asking to go to the Alligator Store. I didn't know what she was talking about, but was really trying to figure it out.

All I could picture was this:
but what Jenna was picturing was this:
I had forgotten that I'd explained that the moving stairs was called an escalator, but she heard "alligator." I got quite a kick out of that association!

So we spent much of last Saturday shopping...in the pouring rain. We'd spent the previous weekend at home while she recovered from H1N1, so my errands had been piling up. We were pretty much drenched, but Jenna had a blast. Here are a few of the pictures.

Here she is enjoying the alligator!

Here she is riding the hippo!