(Ok, first off – what a difference a few months makes! I took these photos when we had our night away at Hotel Monaco, and obviously, there isn’t still snow on the ground. I may need to do a version II in the future so you can see how pretty it is there in the spring!) Growing up, we didn’t have much of a choice for shopping. My small town in New Mexico had one mall, and that was pretty much it. Besides Wal-Mart. There was a Sears and a JCPenny, and if you were one of the rich ones, you’d get to go shopping at Dillard’s. Every once in awhile, we’d get really lucky and take a trip to Utah before school started, and we’d get to do our school shopping there. Oh, the choices!! We really felt like we were in shopping heaven. These days,. . .