This post was written on Friday July 22. We had trouble with getting the pictures to my blog. So Mr Guy and the Lady are helping me catch up. I have so many pictures and so many things to share! It is going to take this little blue and orange furry monster lots of minutes to write all of these words! Please be patient with me!
Wow I’m a little confused. I think it has been three days since we left home. It was Wednesday, but now it is Friday! The Lady says we lost six hours on the plane. Disappearing time is too much for a little blue and orange monster to understand.
You may wonder why we are going to London. Actually we are only going to the London airport and then traveling by bus to another part of Great Britain. Mr Guy told me London is a city in Great Britain. The Lady sings with her church choir and they are singing at churches in Great Britain.
The last few days have been a go go go time. We got on the plane in Dallas on Thursday, Wednesday, I looked at the sign and it said we were going to London.
The Lady and Mr Guy had told me that we would be going on a long trip some time ago. We had even looked it up in the Atlas at Mr Guys school before he retried retired. Until I helped Mr. Guy and The Lady pack a whole bunch of stuff at home, it did not seem real.
They let me put a few shirts in their bags. I did not take too many because I knew I would find some new shirts in England. I was afraid that if I took any more shirts, there would not be enough room to bring any new ones home.
The Lady had to take lots of special singing clothes that took up a lot of room in her bag. She packed something that she called vest mints or investments or something. They looked like a long black dress and a short white bib or something.
We got to the airport very early and then waited a while before we got on the biggest plane I have ever seen. The Lady and Mr Guy said they had never seen one that big either. I wish we had taken a picture!
We were in a section called “business class”. I wasn’t sure this was good because I thought Mr Guy had retired and The Lady was off for the summer; I did not think they would be busy in classes while we were on the airplane. Mr Guy explained that class is a word with a lot of meanings. In this case it means a type of space you get on the plane. The Lady said that this was like first class we had flown before, but maybe even better.
It think business class really was better! There were lots of buttons for me and Mr. Guy to push and we got lots of space and the seat folded out into a bed!
They gave us great food for dinner.
Mr Guy and I watched a movie. Our TV also showed us where in the world our airplane was flying.
This map didn’t look quite like the atlas that Mr. Guy had shown me.
These screens had lots of numbers on them! All of this made my eyes tired so I took a nap. Or maybe I went to bed.
The Lady worked on her pictures and on her own blog. When Mr Guy and I woke up it was time for breakfast! And it was already Thursday morning. I thought it should be Wednesday night still because we didn’t sleep that long. Mr Guy tried to explain time zones and the lost six hours to me, but I just did not understand.
When we finally got to London and got off of the plane, we went through this place called imagination, or something like that. There we told the Great Britain person (Mr Guy says people from Great Britain are called “British”) why we were in Great Britain. The Lady and Mr Guy had to show their passports. These are little books with terrible pictures of The Lady and Mr. Guy that say that they came from the United States and that they are allowed to travel to other countries. Mr Guy said I did not need a passport because everyone wants visits from blue and orange monsters.
Once we got our bags, everyone from the singing people group got on a bus. Most of these people had not met me so there were a lot of introductions. I will tell you more about the bus another time. The most important thing about getting on the bus was that everyone was excited because Mr Simon is our guide and Mr Martin is driving our bus. These two did the same things for the singing people three years ago when they came to Great Britain. The Lady and Mr Guy had not adopted me yet so I wasn’t on that trip. It was BBB – Before Blueper B.
Mr Martin is a good bus driver. He took us all to a city called Cambridge.
First we had lunch…or breakfast…or a midnight snack and then had a tour of Cambridge.
The singing people had special blue shirts so that they could find each other. I like that their shirts were blue! I did not have one of their special shirts, but by accident, I wore a blue shirt that was the same color as theirs. That’s good. I didn’t want to get lost in this city that was way far away from home.
It was fun to see this very old city even though we were very tired because we lost our nighttime, which meant we lost our sleep time!
After our tour, we finally went to our hotel, ate dinner and went to sleep. We woke up and the it was Friday.
That is what we have done so far. Today (Friday, really) we are going to a place called Ely Cathedral where The Lady and the rest of the singing people will make music together for the first time in England. I hope I get to go. Then we will go back to Cambridge and have the afternoon to look around.
