Day 175 - American Girl Store

Katelyn got an American Girl doll for her birthday.  Once you purchase something from them, they email you every other day and send you actual mail, like twice a week.  I'm convinced the dolls would cost 25% less if they reduced their mail LOL!!  I was really excited, however, when we got an email that said they were opening a store in Columbus.  The American Girl store is a big deal, some of them are a couple of stories tall, they display the dolls like a museum, they have a doll hair salon and a restaurant where you can have a tea party with your doll!  And the nearest one to us before was in Chicago.  I really want to go back for a tea party, but today we went up to have lunch and surprise Katelyn.  And she was THRILLED.  Lunch was ridiculously adorable.  Everything was mini and they carried their star logo into some of the food.  Katelyn got a special seat to sit her doll in and they let her order pretend food for her doll which came on a doll sized plate.  Super cute.  The food wasn't crazy expensive and it was all very tasty...there wasn't one thing we were even a little disappointed by.   I had planned to get her doll's hair fixed at the hair salon, but Nana fixed it so cute that morning that we used the money to get a lunch box and food for the doll.  And Nana and Ricky spoiled her rotten too.  It was a really great day!  (You know it must have been special, because we drove 2 hours to spend $50+ each on food and tiny doll things and no one was let down at all, LOL!)