Having a day off in the middle of the week is awesome. You really have all the time you need to be by yourself because everyone is either at work or at school. If you want to go to the mall, it is not that busy then either.
We do not have malls that are close to us here. We have to travel into Fort Walton Beach or Panama City to shop. We do have outlet malls though. They are a bit higher priced but easier to get to then the regular malls.