A Fun Day at the Mall

Lazy days of summer. It’s been so hot outside, I did all I could to stay at home with the kids, except for the unavoidable beach and pool outings. Anything else needs to have a very cold micro-climate (aka air conditioning).

There are some very good malls in Israel and they all have fantastic air conditioning! The problem with most of them is that they are way overcrowded during summertime. Well, I found a great alternative last week – the Arena mall right by the Herzeliya marina, not far from Tel Aviv.

I have to thank EPK Israel for that particular trip. Their social media guy, Moises, contacted me via Twitter and invited me to come and see their new autumn collection. Now, those who know me can appreciate the irony of me being invited to a fashion show (sneakers and jeans Mom all over). Still, this being kids fashion, the opportunity to check out a different mall, and Moises’ generous offer to give us “free samples”, all made me pack up the kids and head out.

I’m really glad we did. The Arena mall was surprisingly nice and definitely not crowded! I did go over to say hi to the EPK people – a lovely store, with a definite European atmosphere (is that what they call Euro chic?). The prices were surprisingly sane, so much so that I ended up actually shopping there too – couldn’t really say no to Ron after he got into this outfit (pants our own – don’t be blaming EPK for those) -

Had to leave the store soon after that, as my boys were making themselves too much at home:

I still can’t believe it, but I actually managed to get away with shopping for shoes for them too (if you consider Crocs to be shoes that is). A bit oversized, but hey, he’s growing -

Sorry about the picture quality btw. Ironically, around the time I was working on this page on Hub Pages, we managed to lose our digital camera, and obviously the iPhone is not a very good alternative.

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