American Girls and Modern Art

She was an American Girl! No, not the Tom Petty song... the doll and even better in NYC... the PLACE! Jennifer and I headed out for 5th Ave and 49th Street. We put the plastic covering over the stroller in case of rain. It helped with the cold wind. She was so warm she fell asleep on the subway. We took the 1 to 96th and then transferred to the 2 or 3, then got off at Times Square. The reasoning is that there are elevators at Time Square and I don't have to lift her up stairs in the stroller or worse — wake her up! I don't mind walking the 3 blocks over and 7 blocks up... as long as I am going the right way! I usually get an extra block in at the begininng of each trip.
We made it to American Girl Place. All 4 floors of it. It's quilte the store. It's very fun. They actually had an opening for late lunch. Quite the fancy lunch we had! First of all, they have special chairs for the dolls. We brought Bitty Baby with us. She sat up to the table, next to Jennifer. First, we chose pink lemonade and ate our first course: two mini cinnimon rolls and fruit, veggies, dips, chicken salad tarts, and a pretzel roll served from a footed ceramic platter. Then we had our main course: Jennifer had chicken fingers, macaroni and cheese and a fruit skewer. The fruit was cut into hearts and stars. I had vegetable quiche with spring salad. Jennifer saved one of her strips and the fruit skewer for dinner and Quint had half of my quiche. Dessert was a flower dirt cup of chocolate mousse, a shortbread cookie and a heart-shaped cake. Our napkins were tied with a pink daisy, there was a black polka-dot box, tied with pink ribbon, filled with fun questions for conversation. There were silk flowers in a shiny little watering can on the table. This is a special hanger in the bathroom in which to place your doll! I couldn't resist this photo op.











After lunch we browsed the store — several times. The first floor has a doll's hair salon, this year's limited edition doll, and the library. The second floor is the doll hospital and I can't remember what else... more doll stuff. The third floor has the American Girls Dolls, clothes and accessories. You can get a card holder and then little cards are available in front of the displays. If you want something, you take the card and put it in your folder. Then give your folder to the cashier. Or you can just collect the cards. The third floor also houses the theatre. The fourth floor has Bitty Baby, all of the clothes, accessories and the cafe.

After several hours... we were off to Talbots, via Versace, Rockefeller Center, several churches, the World of Disney Store (we ony did one floor!) and then we joined Dad and the students at 6 pm for a free evening at the Museum of Modern Art. We saw Vincent Van Goghs' Starry Night, Monet's Water Lilies and Agapatha's. Many works by Picasso, Frida's self-portrait in short hair, Toulouse-Lautrec, Jackson Pollock... and those are just the names I remember. We didn't get to the Andy Worhol soup cans. Another day... when Sterling comes. We got home a little before 9. We stopped at the cafeteria downstairs to microwave our lunch for dinner.

Bitty Baby had to try on her new outfit and eat dinner. Jennifer has decided to call her Nick Jr. Oh well... it's been 3 weeks without TV but you can't tell.