American Girl Store Visit at Tyson's Corner!!

 My daughter Shelby and I had a FANTASTIC time at the new Tyson's Corner American Girl store!  We decided to make a long weekend of it.  Having made a reservation at the Tyson's Corner Marriott with an American Girl package, we arrived at the hotel on Thursday.  After checking in, we went up to the room and were met by a very nice woman who gave Shelby a pink American Girl doll bed as well as made the bed up with a pink coverlet and an American Girl pillow!  Shelby was thrilled!  We decided to take a complimentary shuttle to the American Girl store.  As soon as we walked into the store it was obvious that, as my daughter said, "This is a dream come true!"  Shelby had such a wonderful time walking around both floors of beautiful, detailed, historic exhibits of the American Girl dolls.  She ooohed and ahhed when looking at the Bitty Babies who were sooooo cute.  After a few hours of walking around, we went back to the hotel and had a wonderful lunch at the Marriott Steak house, and Shelby decided that her doll Chrissa just had to sit and eat with us!  Tyson's Corner also houses a HUGE assortment of different kinds of stores including a Disney store, a theatre, all sorts of department stores, Build A Bear store, and many others.  We walked around for hours.  Shelby decided later that Chrissa just had to get her ears pierced.  We walked back to the American Girl store, made an order to get Chrissa's ears pierced and walked around a bit more.  Going back to the Salon area, we found out that the piercing also came with a complimentary set of earrings for Shelby's dolls.  This American Girl visit turned out to be a TRULY wonderful, memorable, and FUN time!