My daughter and I took off yesterday and enjoyed a girls day out. It's been awhile since we've done this and despite a few minor glitches here and there we had a great time.
Our chosen place to shop was about 25 miles from our house. We had the radio in the van tuned to the oldies station and they were playing a lot of good songs (good songs = we know the lyrics). So we sang. Loudly. Fortunately, the air conditioning was working and the windows were up.
We went to see a movie, a kid's movie, Kit Kittredge. Predictable, but cute. We enjoyed it. My daughter loved the American Girls. I homeschooled her from PreK-12th grade. Twice I used the American Girl books as the basis for year-long unit studies. Those school years are my daughter's favorite and she still remembers a great deal of what we studied during that time.
She's long beyond the point of playing with the dolls, but she now collects them. She's gotten an AG doll every Christmas since the age of six. Truth be told, I'm happy she's still interested in them even though it's in a different way. Putting a doll under the tree each Christmas allows me to re-connect with many fond memories of past Christmases. Anyway...
We then went to New York & Company for $5-a-pair flip-flops. 
Made a Starbucks stop for some Passion iced tea; and then it was off to Victoria's Secret to load up on bath and body products. While we were out, we decided to visit Ulta and naturally we found plenty of things in there to occupy our time. 
I'm happy to say we both were very good and didn't go overboard. We only purchased what we actually needed. A quick stop for dinner and we headed home.
It was so nice to just hang-out together doing fun stuff. Nice that we weren't up against a time crunch of any kind. That seems to happen so rarely. I think we need to do this on a regular basis - just us girls with all the time in the world. 
I wore ankle bracelets when I was her age, too. It's funny, I'm not sure I've ever mentioned that to her. :-)
