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Honey, load the Winnebago! Proprietors hope the gargantuan Mall of America, opening in Bloomington, Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
...circus children live in an extended family of adults and are sometimes given bit parts in the show. Living on the road, exposed to big crowds and strange cities, they must grow up faster than most of us. On a patch of asphalt in front of the Winnebago, Romanos has sketched out hopscotch squares. "This," she says, "is their playground...
Gina Romanos, the teacher of the 13 children who travel with The Big Apple, has a classroom on wheels, a converted Winnebago named the "One-Ring School-house." Past the curtain with the sign, "Performers Only," there is no jungle of dressing rooms and props. Instead, a deserted back lot stands where the motor homes and 18-wheelers were parked...
...Winnebago contains the distilled essence of an elementary school. There is Elmer's glue, board games, a teaching clock, a green blackboard with big white stamped letters, crayons, scissors, math books, everything except an aquarium...
...night, I lug my personal-sized Quadling Winnebago to The Crimson. I get home around 10:30 or 11 every night...