Last Friday we — Grace, Jordan, and myself — enjoyed a girl’s day out. To celebrate Grace’s 6th birthday we went to the Flagship store for American Girl while vacationing in Chicago. It was quite an experience because even though we have a small American Girl store in Atlanta, the department store sized experience was enough to fill the greater part of a day’s outing.

This was the view as we entered the store and looked up:

First floor of AG Store

Shopping upstairs with their dolls still in backpacks:

Grace and Jordan begin to look around upstairs.

First stop, the Doll Hair Salon to make and appointment:

American Girl Doll Hair Salon

Serious decision making on the hairstyle choice:

Picking out the new hairstyle for their dolls.

Waiting in line with Molly:

Waiting to sign Molly up for the new hairstyle.

And making friends with another Molly fan while in line:

Grace befriends another birthday girl in line.

More of the American Girl birthday experience in the next post!