Met Irene last night. She was in town from Seattle for work stuff at McCormick Center, so I picked her up there and we went to Michigan Ave to look at Christmasy things. We went into American Girl Doll, she never heard of them and I had never been in the store. It really icked us out. Dolls, clothes, a salon to do your dolls hair in different styles, a hospital to drop your doll off to get fixed is she lost a limb or her head. They have babies, and twins too, DVD's and theater where they do some kind of weird live show, and a cafe where you can eat with your doll in a booster seat hooked up to the table next to you.



We walked around Michigan Ave, then State Street, took a cab to Belmont/Clark and had dinner at Clarke's Diner.



We were gonna go across the street to Ann Sather for dessert, but they close at 3pm on Mon & Tues. So did a little shopping and then took the brown line to Merchandise Mart and walked to Harry Caray's and had dessert and coffee there.

It was cool to finally get to meet her, we have talked online and shared humane society stories for a couple of years now. She is a really cool person.