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April 21, 1998
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Agenda for the day: play with Aunt Janet's expensive things, see the seals, go to Uncle Donald's house, go to the cat shelter, go to the Muffy store, play with Wilbur (wait a minute - is he covered under "Aunt Janet's expensive things?) Exactly what do they mean by expensive things? Should I hide the computer? Buy extra insurance on the scanner? Do I have any Ming vases laying around that I don't know about? And so they arrived a little behind schedule but with the full agenda on their minds. After dressing my Muffy bear in every outfit she owns and making a paper boat for her according to plans on her Bear Island navigation chart, rearranging the stones in my Zen sandbox, dumping the pennies out of my windup King Kong bank and reinserting them one by one (you wind up the little gorilla and he climbs the empire state building and drops the penny in a slot near the top), and determining I have no games on my computer (whew -thank goodness) they were ready for a road trip to the beach for the seals. We stopped for subs at Angelina's and ate them on the sea wall at Salisbury Beach and then walked to the rocks where the seals were all hauled out sunbathing. Tons of them. A herd, a flock, a gaggle, a raft... whatever you call a large group of seals. Just before we reached the rocks, some dude in a boat buzzed them and all but one big bull jumped in the water. So there were all these little black heads sticking up all around the rocks. After a few minutes, they climbed back out again. Lizzy was getting into watching them when Andrea decided she had to leave right away. Seen the seals. Time to leave. Umm, OK. So we went to Uncle Donald & Michael's house for a pit stop and walked along the beach from there. Andrea dug two big holes and collected lots of shells. Lizzy played Pooh sticks with fragments of reeds and collected lots of shells. Some of the ones Andrea collected were unfortunately not empty, as I found out later. They want to walk up to the honky tonk area for cotton candy. This is like not like my favorite thing to do. Besides, it will take too long to walk there and back and we have a huge agenda still remaining so we drive. Lizzy insists I am supposed to go straight at the intersection even though I would be going the wrong way on a one way street. I refuse but instead of going left then right onto the main drag, I go right to appease Lizzy who can't conceive of going left to get to the right, and I end up on the other side of the pedestrian mall. I am vaguely alarmed that Grandma drives the wrong way on one way streets. Must speak to her about this when she comes back from Italy. Anyway, they get cotton candy and I get a coffee frappe. The cotton candy is very pink and sticky. Andrea gets it in her hair and everywhere. Very impressive. Off to the cat shelter. Oops, my key doesn't work. They changed the lock and I still have the old key. The PM shift isn't there yet, so I decide to come back during adoption hours. Off to the Muffy store (Crispin's Bears) where we marvel at the new Muffy outfits and all the other wonderful bears. I select a lemonade stand outfit for Muffy and the kids buy accessories. Off to the cat shelter. Strawberry is very friendly to them. Jaguar suffers himself to be petted without complaint. To the world's slowest Friendly's for supper. It is 25 minutes before they take our order and the waiter never brings the crayons and coloring books he promised to entertain us while we waited for him to "be with us in a minute". Long minute. Get food. Get ice cream. Eat same. Very messy. Return children to Kevin. Drive home. Too tired... slightly sunburned... |
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