Tysons Corner Center

It was a cold and rainy morning. Rather than walk in our condo underground parking structure like we used to do in the winter, we decided it was time to take a ride over to Tysons Corner Center. We haven’t been in the mall for fifteen months or more. We used to go there and Tysons Galleria alternately whenever the weather was foul, too hot, too cold, too snowy, or too rainy. Since the shop hours have changed our usual entryway near Bloomingdale’s wasn’t yet open. So we found parking near the entrance for the morning walkers. It was decidedly dark and very unpleasant driving through the lot. In spite of the fact that the mall wasn’t yet open, the parking was rather full. The first floor food court was the first section to walk through. It seemed like about half of the people milling around wore masks. Even though we are both vaccinated we also wore masks and most of the stores required them before entering. I was surprised that more of the stores hadn’t closed for good. It was nice too see some semblance of normalcy, but it didn’t quite feel that way. Once the mall officially opened the Apple store had a lot of customers, as always. By the time we left it got a lot busier, but I was happy to leave. Everything looks so artificial. I’m still not interested in a lot of material things snd if necessary prefer to buy in on line. At least there is now another option for walking. But nothing beats the outdoors for that.