Tonight Peter and I took the plunge and made our one and only trip to a shopping mall during the month of December. Given the nature of our errands, not just any mall would do, we needed one with stores no other mall has. Thus, after dropping Alethea off with Grandma and Grandpa, we headed to the Mall of America.
Neither one of us had been inside the MOA for years, so we were pleasantly surprised to be able to get a parking spot right near one of Bloomingdale’s front doors and find that the inside of the mall wasn’t too crowded.
After a trip to the LEGO store, we hit up a few other shops and then headed to the American Girl Store:
We walked in…
My reaction: “Oh wow, I would have loved this when I was a kid! They have everything here! It’s so different to see this stuff in person rather than just in the well-worn pages of the American girl catalogs we used to have at our house. I’d spend hours drooling over all the doll accessories!”
Peter’s reaction: “Every surface in here is pink.”
Fortunately Peter was able to hold the bright yellow bag with the big LEGO logo in front of himself like a shield to ward off all of the estrogen and we made it out of the store with only our intended purchase, a Bitty Baby doll for Alethea’s Christmas present:
Someday I’ll have to go back with Alethea. It’d be nice to spend a little time browsing through the displays with someone who has a little appreciation for the magic of it all!
Oh wow! I had bitty baby as a child! I loved that doll! I had her bassinet and accessories and YES I loved drooling over the catalogs as well! I really wanted the bunk beds for my Kirsten doll.
We had so much fun last year when Leah and her friend Beth and her mother and I went into the American Girl store in Chicago. I loved watching the dolls being treated in the hospital: well loved dolls getting spruced up. I know some of the stores even have teas time, want to plan doing tea sometime?
I think tea would be fabulous, but maybe we should plan it for a time when Alethea has a longer attention span, or at least after we’ve had a few practice ‘teas’ at home. :-)