October 29, 2020
This weekend J and I decided to drive to Norwalk and check out the new SoNo Mall. Malls are dying, just like shopping stores in general cause everyone is shopping online these days, so I’m not sure why they felt like building a new one, but it looked nice, seemed pretty big and promising. But there was like nothing there. Half of the building was parking space and inside the mall was mostly just empty space in between stores, the hallways of the mall I mean. But they had some stores that has been closing down in the Stamford mall (everything is dying in our city, both before and during corona). I ended up buying a cozy winter sweater and some basics at HM and two pairs of pants at Zara. The rest of the stores barely had anything in them, like Nordstrom, there was like five pieces of clothing in each corner of this enormous space. The Apple store on the other hand had multiple security guards outside the entrance checking peoples temperature and the line to go in was getting bigger and bigger by the second. The whole mall was kinda empty of people except the apple store. I guess there’s some new phone out now or something.
After a couple of hours we decided to drive down the street and go eat at Colony Pizza. There is one in Stamford and we really like it. Luckily not many people inside and we could sit alone in one corner. Restaurants have got strict rules, costumers have to keep their mask on until the food comes, for example. The pizza was sooo good. After eating we drove another few blocks down and found a super cute area with lots of restaurants with outdoor seating, small shops and art galleries. Last time we explored Norwalk we weren’t that impressed, we didn’t really understand why people talked about it so much, but now when we found this street we understood more. It started to rain so we didn’t stay long but now we know for the future:)
Sidewalk was used for restaurants and their outdoor seating
so they had blocked off for pedestrians to safely walk on the street
When we came home we went for a long walk with Mr Fluff