The Inner Circle of Hell

Or as some might call it, "Build-a-Bear at the busiest place in South Carolina." Now there are Build-a-Bear stores in malls across the United States but apparently no one goes to those stores. Instead they all wait (like us) and all go to this particular Build-a-Bear. And I'm not lying when I say that they have a velvet rope outside the door with a lady (who no speaka da English very well) ushers people  in like cows off to slaughter. This was our 1st experience at such a magical place. I think this kind of thing is better left to the 3 and above crowd as Zachary thoroughly enjoyed making his dinosaur.

So for those of you who don't know, the 1st thing you do is pick out what kind of stuffed animal you want to make. They have some seriously cute stuff. However, my child picks out a fugly monkey. Who cares that we have 3 monkeys at home! But whatever. 

So off to stuffing. The chick asks us if we want a soft or hard stuffed animal. I'm thinking that for cuddling purposes, soft would be better. This would prove to be a bad choice.

Here is where Little Bit was suppose to be giving her monkey a bath. 

Finally, this place has more outfits than Macy's to choose from.  ANYTHING you can imagine. Bathing suits, princess outfits, cheerleader get-ups. You name it, they've got it. Cute stuff! Our child grabs the first tank top that she sees. So we slap it on. The mission at this point is to get out of there and get out of there fast. After standing in line for an eon to pay, Steven even told the checkout girl to "screw putting it in a box" we otta here!

The result, a monkey that looks like a hooker, with a mashed in face because we choose the "soft" option. Apparently, it didn't get enough stuffing in it's face. So it sort of looks like a cro-magnon man. But Sophie seems to be pretty fond of it.