The 2013 American Girl Girl of the Year is Saige Copeland from Albuquerque.
To celebrate, the Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau is
giving away a trip to Albuquerque that includes a Saige doll. Your package includes 2 nights at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, an American Girl Saige doll with books signed by the author, Watercolor class at the resort to paint the mountains and forest surrounding the resort, a visit to the Tamaya Horse Rehabilitation Proogram and horseback riding at The Stables at Tamaya, and a chance to groom the resort's Picasso horse, a Tamaya Mist salon experience for your daughter and her Saige doll, a geogaching scavenger hunt, amking S'mores, Saige will have her own bed, a visit to Albuquerque including admission for 4 to Sandai Peak Aerial Tramway, ABQ BioPark and the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque Internation Balloon Museum, and a $40 VISA gift card for travel expenses.
We briefly visited Albuquerque just last summer as part of a wedding we attended in Santa Fe, I entered to win a trip for my daughter. She is very excited to win and have her own Saige doll.
I think this was a brilliant marketing strategy for Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau. I know my daughter's interest in Saige was increased because she had just been to New Mexico. Last year, when we were in Santa Fe, every time we were in a store with a book section, I had looked for a Josefina book since she is from Santa Fe. I found other American Girl books, but never a Josefina.
They even have a page setup to help families
plan a Saige-inspired trip. If we were going this year instead of last year, we definitely would have read the Saige book and considered some of these options.
