Speaking of being out of touch…<\/p>\n
I looked at the restaurant list in Water Tower Place in Chicago – if you’re not familiar with it, Water Tower place is a vertical shopping mall in the center of the Miracle Mile on North Michigan Avenue. It’s probably worth mentioning that a significant portion of the tourists are Asians, since they still have real money.<\/p>\n
Welcome to “American Girl”. It’s the strangest concept I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.americangirl.com\/stores\/location_chi.php<\/a><\/p>\n Presumably before you arrive, you have purchased your authentic American Girl Doll for $110 For your daughter along with a few hundred $$$ worth of doll outfits, along with matching outfits for your daughter. Her doll is in for quite a treat – getting its hair styled, trying on new outfits, having its picture put on an issue of American Girl magazine, watching its “mom” eat a tic tac toe pizza and drinking a glass of pink lemonade, and appearing on the exclusive Celebration Screen.<\/p>\n For lunch, that’s $22 per person plus tax and gratuity.<\/p>\n So what do you think this means?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speaking of being out of touch… I looked at the restaurant list in Water Tower Place in Chicago – if you’re not familiar with it, Water Tower place is a vertical shopping mall in the center of the Miracle Mile … Continue reading