Sandy M.I.A.!!

Wow... the garden is looking so good. I wonder where I could go and dig next...

Oh... er... Hello. Yes, Leo here... I'm just, um, keeping Sandy's chair warm for him. He and Little Fox took a later flight than me... Oh me? Digging a hole in the garden?? Well... yes... cats are very good hole diggers you know...

Oh... a message for me? Wow!! My first piece of mail.

It's from Sandy! I was wondering when he was going to be home... his return flight left London over a day ago!... Uh-oh...

"Dear Leo, Going on another trip, can you take over blog and answer mail or get one of the gang to do it? Thx. Sandy"

Uh.... hole digging is going to have to wait! This is an emergency!!

Sigh... why is everyone always late for meetings?

Ah, here we all are... all right...

I call this meeting to ord... ah-hem... Bear?? Could you move your arm please?

Great, thanks. OK gang, we have an emergency here. Sandy is going on another trip and you guys all need to cover his jobs.

OK, got it? He left me in charge of supervising all of you... because cats are smart and savvy and....

"Umm... excuse me... Brumm here... let me get this right?"

 "He left you in charge??? The littlest stuffie?"

"Hey!! Wait a minute!!! He is not the littlest stuffie!!" (Who is that?)

"Excuse me... but I think it's pretty clear I am the littlest stuffie... and there's nothing wrong with being little!"

"I agree!! Little stuffies are very adept at getting into little places (like cookie jars)..."

"That is true... I am not the littlest stuffie here, but I am very dextrous!"

"Look... I don't know that size really matters... I think we just need to figure out who's doing what..."

"Weeeeeeee aggrrreeeeeeee...."

OK then... like I said... who wants to do what?

whisper, whisper... grumble, grumble... squeak and giggle... bubble and squeak... whisper....

OK... well that's settled then. We debated leaving everything up to the human but... clearly that is NOT a good idea... (humans are notoriously unreliable) So...

Sticky and Flipper are going to handle any water adventures (clearly they are well-qualified for that)...

Waldi and Rusty are going to handle any hikes/walks/adventures...

That leaves the rest of you bears to divvy up the rest? OK... good... see you later!

***heh-heh... I'm going to go back and dig my holes and fill them up again!***

Do you notice how it's always the bears who get stuck with the tough jobs??

I, Brumm, will take over the Handy Sandy jobs... call me Builder Brumm!!

And I, Teddy, will take over the cooking jobs... you may call me Chef Theodore...

Um... I guess I'll take on gardening then... I don't have a green thumb (actually no thumbs)... but I think I can make this work. You can call me Sooty Zotty!

Right then... that leaves me... Bär... I guess I'll take over opening the mail! Oh... and there's already a piece of mail that's been waiting. Cool! Bring it on!

 Uh... can't see nothing!

There we go... this envelope is from two bears called Jerry & Ben. I like their return address label!

 Oh, it's a letter...
"Dear Sherlock Sandy, I am sending the presKripsion that Jerry said he got from the Doktur. It looks beary suspeasious to me. Hopefully it will help you to solve the kase of the Wacky PresKripsion! Thank you Sherlock Sandy, Your pal, Ben"

Uh... guys?? Hellloooooo!!! STUFFIES!!!
 ***crickets***
Oh bear poopies... We forgot to assign someone to cover Sherlock Sandy's cases... I guess I could put my paw to it... it can't be that hard, right?

Let's see...
"Preskripsion
Jerry muzt hav 6 jellee beans each day! Doctur Bear"

Right then... er... Watson Bär on the case!!

I will do my best for client Ben... if any of you see anything that you think would be helpful for me... (anything at all... like... anything)... please let me know!

Leaving London

Er... good morning... Is it morning already? It's 4 am!!! Ugh... why are we up so early?

Even the sun isn't up yet...

Oh... it's time to leave London. Wow... must be an early flight! Nope... but several stages of the journey...

First... we need a Tube trip but they open at 5 am (10 minutes yet)... I think we need a hot chocolate!

But the Starbucks only opens at 5:30 am. Phooie....

Oh... here comes a Tube train...

And there it goes...  it was a "Not in Service" train... we saw several of those go by.

Oh... there's ours!!! And we had a half hour Tube ride to....

 Blackfriars Station! This is a super cool railway station... it is on a bridge.

Isn't that cool?? There's the Shard (the tall thing on the right) and the Walkie Talkie (the moderately tall thing on the left). Do these buildings have "real" names? Huh... apparently the Shard is just that... go figure. You'd think by now it would be Pepsi's Shard or something. (Like the London Eye is Coca Cola's London Eye now... hmph!). Maybe it's cause the Shard is 95% owned by Qatar and they don't need corporate endorsements!

Oh... and there's St. Paul's Cathedral... with the sun just coming up.

Its very pretty at this train station.

 And over here... we have the Tate Modern... Beanie Mouse goes there ALL the time for art installations. It's an old power station (you can see the old chimney).

 Let's see... where's our train? Oohh... Brighton!!! Are we going to Brighton?? To visit Beanie again? Nope... we are just taking it cause it goes via Gatwick Airport. Sigh... Guess this great trip had to end sometime.

And there's our train...

 And... here we are... spit through security and Duty Free... and we met the Harrods Bear!

And some Paddington Bears as well... they must have cloned him...

Right then... we have 3 hours before our flight... this fox and bear are going to take some well-deserved naps... See you in a bit!