Sawgrass Mill's Mall

Farley and I before heading out for the mall.

On Saturday, Farley, a friend and I went to Sawgrass Mill's Mall, which is a huge outlet mall in Sunrise, Florida (Sunrise is just inland from Fort Lauderdale). I've heard about this place for years and it was the first time I've had a chance to go. I was not disappointed by the size of the mall; however, I wasn't in love with the stock. Many, many stores have lots of tiny party dresses, but not as many business/professional clothing. There were lots of high end stores and it was fun to see all of the beautiful things. At one store, I saw a little black dress that was $2,200.00 on sale!!! Can you believe it?!? I also tried on a $600.00 hat, which was also on sale.

This is a $600.00 hat on sale!!! It was over $900.00 regular price.

For lunch, we headed to the Rainforest Cafe. Farley and our friend had never been there so I thought it would be fun to go there. I didn't realize that there would be a huge line, there was a hour wait for lunch at 2:00pm, but we were lucky in that we found a place to have lunch in the bar. It would have been fun to be sitting in the middle of the cafe, but it was still fun at the bar. There were tons of little kids in the restaurant and they were all shockingly well behaved. I think there was so much going on that the kids were just sitting trying to take it all in. I love the giant fish tanks with salt water fish. They are so beautiful! The restaurant is rather dim and I don't think that my pictures really do the place justice, but I took some pictures anyway and here they are. It looks much more realistic in person than the pictures--oh and don't forget I lived in a rainforest for about a year and a half!

A bird at the Rainforest Cafe.

The Gorillas at the Rainforest Cafe. They put on a show every few minutes and the children loved the nose and chest pounding!!

The bird that was above us during lunch.

This is one of the elephants at the Rainforest Cafe.

Here is a picture of one of the many salt water fish tanks at the Rainforest Cafe.

The fish tank at The Rainforest Cafe. This picture was taken looking toward the gift shop, which explains the t-shirts.

After eating lunch, we continued shopping. I love the Nordstrom Rack at home, but this one wasn't as good. There were some beautiful things, but just not things I needed. Also, the Rack at home has tons and ties and this one did not so Farley wasn't too happy.

Like I already mentioned, this mall is huge. We got there at 12:00, left at 8:30 pm and we still didn't walk the entire length of the mall! Don't get me wrong, we hit most of the mall, but not all of it. Oh, and we obviously didn't go into every store but we did go into a lot of stores. We all got at least one good deal: our friend bought a pair of Cole Hann shoes that are usually $200.00 for $50.00; Farley got carry-on luggage that usually costs $160.00 for $24.00; and I got a little teal/Caribbean sea blue dress for $33.00 that was regularly $138.00. It was a fun day and I was really, really tired by the time we got home.