Mexican Vacay!

 Yup!! If you guessed Mexico, you would be right! Was it my outfit that gave it away?

It is soooo nice here... warm and sunny... a nice break from cold and wet!

We went to the dining room and had breakfast...

That weird fruit (yellow with big seeds) is guava... one of our new favourites!

And then it was time to chill and relax...

Some people like to do aquasize... not this little bear.

I'll just soak up some sun.

Although, it's beary hot... perhaps time for a liquid refershment?

This bubba mug is a perfect size for a little bear!!

And then some lunch... chips with guacamole and salsa...

One can never have too much guacamole!

Oh, and this is Panchita... kind of the resort mascot. She is a bit spicey but if you crouch near her, and hold out your fist... she thinks about it for a minute and then decides you are being respectful enough... and she will come and schmooze!

And rollie-pollies...

And sniff...

And cuddle!

Soon enough, time for dinner...

With beef carpacchio (yum!)....

And then lamb confit (super yum!!).

And then time for bed...

Happy Bearentine Day!!!

 Hullo! Yes, today is Bearentine Day (or Valentine's Day for the humans)... and as a gesture of my appreciation to my sekrebeary, I am going to...

... conduct the Annual (or Semi-semi Annual) Sekrebeary Evaluation today! Surprise!

I had a look, and the last evaluation was in 2023... which is not great... although the previous one was in 2015... so this is not bad.

The sekrebeary did "meh" last time. The yellow categories stayed the same... the red went down and the green went up. Overall... she was no functioning at a high sekrebeary level.

Oh, and the blue... that is a new category...

So... now... let me think... how did 2025 go...

I don't think I need any new categories... so let's sit down and do this...

Hmmm... "1 Provides snacks (promptly and without eye rolling) when requested from stuffies"... overall... hmmm... let me think...

This might take a while!!!

*** many "hmmmms" later...****

OK... I finally made it through this. It's challenging you know!

And I was, quite frankly, shocked. So when I did the first run through and saw the results, I had to go through it again... just to double-check...

But I think... overall... it is accurate. Brace yourselves!

Can you believe it??? Improvement across many categories!!!

I mean, I did do a tonne of trips in 2025... and she was on the ball with the blog... so overall... pretty darn good. Mind you... she still fails at "providing complex mysteries for stuffies to solve".

So there is room for improvement! But on the whole... impressive.

I can't really complain you know. I think Ajdin has been struggling for years to get a capable, reliable sekrebeary. Jerry and Ben also need to kick theirs in the behind. Although Beanie's and Little Fox's are both doing tolerable ... pretty good!!

Have you done a sekrebeary evaluation for 2025??

Off on Another Adventure!

 Hullo!!! Yes, we are off on another adventure!!!

I know... it just seems like I got home (but not really).

This time, we are taking the car over to Vancouver on the ferry...

It was beary wet and windy out there... so there's not much to show you.

And then we drove to a hotel and stayed the night. This little bear went to bed early because we had to get up at 3 am or something equally ridiculous!

So we could be at the airport!!! The international wing!!!

Any idea where I am going????

That's our plane!!!

And... after a beary long trip with only a cookie or two for a snack... we arrived!!! It was dark. I am tired... See you in the next blog post!

New Bus Bingo Card

Hullo. As noted in the last post, we need to make up a new Bus Bingo card for Beanie Mouse's bus adventures. We always give this a fair bit of thought. Sometimes the thoughts pay off... sometimes not. 

Do you want to see it?

By the way... we always (almost always) put #11 in the middle, cause it's a key spot. And didn't you know it... Transport London changed the bus route so it starts from Waterloo Station and not Victoria!! So it took forever to get that square on our last Bus Bingo card... hmph.

Anyhow... there's our spread. We started it last week, so we already have 4 squares marked off!!! That's pretty good already. Notice there is NO #11 on this one. (Hmph). And we did have #88 twice (sigh), so we changed one of those to a 7.

We learned a few things on our last trip to London... and so this time... our secret sauce was this...

We went onto the TFL site and looked at all of the buses that go by the big train stations that Beanie likes to frequent... places like Victoria, Blackfriar's, etc...

Who was it that said... "Know thine Stuffie?"... (Sun Tzu.... but he didn't use Stuffie (of course)).

Anyhow... we'll see if it works. Once we exhausted those numbers, we chose some random ones... And #65 was a shoe-in for the centre because we know how much Beanie loves Kew Gardens and Richmond! We'll see how this one pans out!