Over this weekend, I was in Florida visiting family and got a chance to go to parts of the city I have never been before. One of my favorite places I went to was the Lincoln Road Mall, which is a block that the stores are all outside on a strip and throughout the strip there is little markets in between both sides of the block. One thing I noticed was that there were many fresh fruit and vegetable markets in between both sides of the mall. I was expecting those little shops to have accessories or some clothing since it was a mall but when I saw it was fruits, vegetables, seeds, smoothies, and other drinks I was a little surprised considering the setting where we were. Another thing that I noticed was that each stand and a line to the cashier, mostly every stand someone was buying something that made me even more shocked because who would come to a mall to buy fruits and vegetables or even think to stop to buy something in one of those markets while they are shopping. But even I stopped and got a strawberry and peach smoothie.

One that was my favorite was a stand that sold smoothies made from a coconut then the smoothie was put into the coconut. We do not see a lot of things or markets like this in Staten Island as often as it is available to people who live in this part of Florida. Every stand had something different one stand only sold types of oranges; another stand had tomatoes and basil and another stand I noticed sold seeds for all kinds of plants and trees.  Some of the stands did sell clothes, accessories, house decorations, and survivors, but another thing I noticed was that those stands were never as crowded or busy as the ones that sold fruit or vegetables. The people who worked the stands seems to be lower and middle-class people and a lot of them were Spanish.