There’s a runway for fashion shows.

A changing room complete with many dizzying mirrors and benches shaped like poodles.

A huge circular staircase with hundreds of Barbies in pink dresses.

Mannequins near the Barbie clothing line (all sizes, not just little girls.  Anna and Bonnie fit right in!)

Ethnic Barbies from all over the world.  (Does Bonnie look like French Barbie?  French Barbie kinda looks like a Las Vegas showgirl to me.)

A history of different Barbies thorough the years.  (Bonnie was a flight attendant and her husband is a pilot so Pilot Barbie is appropriate for her.  Also, it may have been the only Barbie with short hair that we saw.)

And if all of this pink Barbie madness has worn you out, you can go to the Barbie Spa to relax.

We’d agreed to wear pink, blue eyeshadow and pink lipstick in honor of Barbie.  Bonnie went all out with a blond wig and sequined dress!

The cafe looks like a 50s diner.  It’s pretty cool.  Not totally girly.

I really wanted a thick milkshake – most of the time here, they consider it a milkshake if a tablespoon of ice cream is added to milk.  I prefer my milkshakes so thick that the sides of the straw collapse when you try to drink it.  They actually added more ice cream so it was more to my liking.  Nice.

At least five different people asked to have their photo taken with us.  Our waitress asked if we were dressed up because it was someone’s birthday, to which Anna replied YES to right away.  So Bonnie got a cupcake for her “birthday.”  Unfortunately it was probably the worst-tasting cupcake we’d ever had.  The frosting tasted just like margarine – we all tried to eat one bite but couldn’t handle anymore.

The set lunch for 38 RMB didn’t sound too bad – a salad, soup and half a sandwich.  The salad was described as having lots of things like tomatoes and pecans in it, but we could only find half of a cherry tomato.  The rest of the food was very average.

More on the rest of the store to come tomorrow!