Saturday, February 28, 2009

Shallow? Like I care...

We are going to Glendale today to see a phenomenon.

We are going to Americana.

In my husband’s business, they call it multi-use.

I call it heaven.

Americana is an upscale shopping center with condominiums and apartments.

It is a self-contained community built around a (sort of) main street with a little trolley.

It was built by the same guy who built the Grove in LA (Rick Caruso).

OK…now imagine, falling out of bed and having a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and a Barnes and Noble right downstairs.

Call me shallow- but I love this whole idea.

Yea….quiet, desert, mountains…I know.

But face it, guys. I have.

I am a City girl.

If I could bottle the smell of Bloomingdales, I would spray my house with it.

In my mind, paying 3 bucks for a Cappuccino is an American right.

And having a Cheesecake Factory on the corner is ….well….

You have got to see this place.

http://www.americanaatbrand.com/

2 comments:

amy said...

I would pay good money for a bottle of the smell of Nordstrom.

xobekim said...

It's been a week. Do we need an intervention?

Are you powerless over cappuccino and cheesecake?

Is your life unmanageable?

On another point, when I was a freshman at the De La Salle High School in Kansas City, in 1964 one of my classmates hid a radio with a timer. Just as the good Christian Brother settled the class to study the radio went off.

Pet Clark's "Downtown" blared seemingly from everywhere and the teacher zeroed in on the offender.

How did he know?

I'll always love that song, no matter in what language it is sung.