Friday was the day! Mr. Guy is not tired anymore. He is officially retired! To celebrate, we went on a trip Norfolk, Virginia to meet some of The Lady’s picture taking friends. Well, I’m not sure that Mr. Guy thought of it that way, but I was excited to get to go on a trip and I think that Mr. Guy had fun once we got there. He met The Lady’s picture taking friends and their Guys.
When we fly on trips, we usually leave very early in the morning. This time, because Mr. Guy had to go to school one more time, we left at night. When we got to the airport, they were glad to see me. The computer told me that!
This is where we got our tickets. There was one for Mr. Guy and one for The Lady. They called me a lap baby so I didn’t get my own ticket. I guess they know that I prefer to sit in Mr. Guy’s lap when I’m on the airplane.
Everything went smoothly until it didn’t! Our plane was delayed because there was lots of rain.
We waited.
And then we waited some more. Then they changed our gate so we moved. Then we waited some more.
I’m glad that Mr. Guy always carries me in the airport. There are lots of things with wheels in the airport and they don’t always watch out for people, let alone little blue and orange furry monsters. It is kind of scary. People pull and push and roll boxes with their clothes in them and they don’t watch where they are going. Then there are these wagons that drive inside, right down the middle of the sidewalk; there isn’t a street. They make lots of noise. “Beep, Beep, BEEP. BEEP!!!’ They always seem to be in a hurry but they are full of only empty seats. They never seem to stop to let poeple on. They just beep their way through the airport nearly running over people and their boxes of clothes!
I was getting to be a hungry and tired little monster. The good thing about the new gate was that it was right next to a pretzel store. The Lady went and got me a cinnamon sugar pretzel, but just as she got back with it, they called us to board the plane. FINALLY! But then I had to wait to eat my pretzel.
Just as we were about to step on the plane, we had to wait again because something spilled on the airplane and they had to bring a special truck and a special person to come suck it up. While we waited, I got more hungry and more tired.
Then finally we got on the plane!
And I ate my (cold) pretzel.
The good thing about being an hour late leaving Dallas was that the storms all passed and it was time for sunset. Sunset above the clouds is so pretty!!! The Lady let me borrow her phone so that I could take some pictures.
Look at all that beautiful blue and orange!!! My monster belly was full and my monster eyes were full of pretty sky. In the end, everything was good! Then I went to sleep and slept through the rest of our flight.
We got to our hotel very late and all of us went to bed because The Lady told me we had a very exciting day the next day. Well actually, it was that day because it was 1:30 in the morning!!!
We met The Lady’s picture taking friends at the Norfolk Botanical Garden. I remebered The Lady telling me last week that I was going to have a chance to see lots more pretty flowers. I could tell exactly who the picture taking ladies were because they all had cameras around their necks and carried boxes of stuff, but not like the boxes with wheels that people pulled around in the airport. They carried them on their shoulders.
The Picture Taking Ladies were full of smiles and laughter and headed off together to take pictures. Fortunately, one of The Picture Taking Ladies, Ms. Sherri, brought her Mr. Guy with her. So, my Mr. Guy, Ms. Sherri’s Mr. Guy, and I spent a lot of time sitting on benches talking and watching The Picture Taking Ladies run around pointing their cameras at anything and everything…including us! At least they didn’t forget we were there!
Wow! That was quite an adventure! No was so happy to have a photo take with you Blueper! In fact that might be the very best photo taken of me ever! Please ask The Lady if I could use it for my profile photo. I would be truly honored!
I regret that I didn't bring my friend Willow to meet you. But I hope we will get together again for another photo walk. Many hugs!