Families And Friends At The Mall

Date: Saturday November 14, 2015
Location: Mall - El Paso, TX
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

It is a warm November day this Saturday. Sun is shining, no clouds in the sky. A nice day to go shopping...

The rest area I usually observe from is very busy today. Many people are walking through the area. There are groups of friends and families passing through the area.

There is a family looking over the balcony. It is a mother, a young boy, and a young man. The mother is wearing a Superman hoodie. The young boy is wearing a red long-sleeved soccer shirt. The young man is wearing a maroon T-shirt. The young boy is seems to be about 8 or 9 years old. The young boy is climbing all over his mother. The young man (a teenager) turns around and watches the passers by. The mother looks over the balcony, and the young boy is constantly touching her in some way. The mother and the young boy sit down on a bench. The young boy sits on his mother's lap. The young man sits at a different bench from his mother and brother. Other family members (I assume) appear. A man is standing in front of the bench where the young man is sitting. Perhaps he is the father, even though he has not interacted much with the mother. This older man is talking with two older men.

A family is sitting at the bench to my right. It is an older man, a young woman, and a young boy. The young boy likes to bother the young woman. He keeps throwing a coin in the air. The young boy throws it up in the air and it falls to the ground in the middle of customer traffic. A man is walking by as the boy lunges for the coin. The man says "Whoa!" and has his arms in the air to show that he tried to not trample the young boy. The coin rolls under the bench I'm sitting at. The young boy goes after it, and the man walks by and says, "Almost got it" as he pats the young boy  on the back. The man walks away with his friend.

Ethnicities this week: Latino (majority), Caucasian, black/African-American, and Asian. I see a lot more Asian people this week than last week. Not much mixing of ethnic groups this week.

The play area on the lower floor is full of children having fun. Some parents just sit at the provided chairs in the play area and watch their children from a distance. Other parents are more involved in their children's play. Some guide their children through the obstacles, some are just standing in the vicinity of their child watching them. The children seem to be having a good time.

There is a group of friends standing at the balcony. There is a young man wearing glasses, a blonde young woman, and a young woman with bright red hair. They are waiting to meet their friends, I assume. They meet up with their friends right in front of me (inches away). One friend is a young Asian woman, the other is a young woman with bright green hair. The people sitting at the bench to my right just stare at the group of friends.