Scenes from a Mall What better place to spend a Sunday two weeks before Christmas than a shopping mall? Jesse and I are both big model train fans, so we enjoyed the huge display at Towson's Shops at Kenilworth. Zoe was more interested in her new pastime--throwing coins into the huge fountain.

Here's the windup...

...and the pitch! We emptied the pennies from all our pockets. In all, Zoe threw about fifteen of them. Coincidentally, the same 15¢ is about equal to what the orphanage back in Yekaterinburg receives in government funding to care for each child each day.

Is this a great country, or what?  ¶ 8:51 PM