There was a surreal moment yesterday when my Mistress was returning to her hotel room and met her toilet coming out of the lift. It all started when the toilet started dripping, clean water, from the cistern all over the bathroom floor. My Mistress found the tap to turn it off and reported it to reception. In my Mistress’s opinion there was a crack in the toilet and it didn’t look good. The maintenance man came. ‘Oh it’s just the bolt,’ he said, ‘I’ll sort it while you are out.’ My Mistress was grateful but sceptical as it most certainly didn’t just look like a bolt to her. And so it was that the maintenance man was seen wheeling the old toilet away and my Mistress had the pleasure of christening a brand new one.
As she had a little free time my Mistress undertook a mercy mission to Walmart. With her food allergies she has been finding it hard to get food she can eat and has resorted to eating things she knows will make her ill, but was so hungry that she didn’t know what else to do. Anyway, she went to the supermarket and bought some fruit and maple syrup and even bought herself some disposable cups and bowls to make it easier to have her random picnics as she travels. She’s all set for another long drive today – it will be around 500 miles in total, but it’s not like 500 miles in England would be as there is no traffic so it is much more relaxed and she’s got all day to do it. She said the last time she drove that far in a day was the day that Shadow’s microchip failed and she had to drive back to Switzerland when she was supposed to be coming home. That’s three years ago now, but it seems like only yesterday. I said that to Shadow but she said she’d rather not be reminded.
As she had finished at the Orphan Train Museum, my Mistress went to the Cloud County Historical Museum. She expected something small and half-hearted but was surprised to find a remarkably good museum with a fantastic range of artefacts. If it weren’t so far from almost anywhere, she’d wholeheartedly recommend a visit. D’Artagnan missed that bit but he did get to go to the Orphan Train Museum today and even made some new friends.
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