Cannolis or Death!May 17
I’m writing this right after lunch. These TARflies are a welcoming, friendly and slightly nutty group – my kind of crowd! After arriving promptly at 1pm, I was checked in by a lovely lady named Lucinator.
She didn’t find my name on the guest list, but she said that she’d let me come in anyway since I’m pretty small and wouldn’t take up much room. She even made sure I got a chance to sign AirSteve’s birthday card.
After loading up with some soda,
I sat down at a table. Turns out, I was at the adult table. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake. They had a lot of something called wine at the table. I’d never had wine before, but they were very generous and shared it with me.
I’m not entirely sure that was a good thing. Turns out wine makes the world spin around and I kept finding myself upside down for awhile.
It also makes you very friendly – I made so many new friends:
Kanuck and Zron – they come from far away too. Their far away is from the same country as Rachel, but they didn’t bring her with them.
Jer has a snazzy rolling chair that he takes with him wherever he goes.
Tony, Marion and Brian were all on The Amazing Race show that Rachel loves so much.
Piperdown once promised to kidnap Rachel and bring her to the TARflies lunch, but it didn’t quite work out that way.
The Last Dodo is a good snuggler!
GinevradiBenci, ToniW, JenEx, KonaKini, and emjaytee are all very lovely ladies, but my heart still belongs to Rachel.
AirSteve seems to be a bit upset that Rachel isn’t there for his birthday. He was later given a big cake, but it was on fire and he had to put it out. He didn’t seem to mind, though.
Carissa and Kelley loaned me their clown nose for awhile. It’s almost as big as my head! Carissa was also on The Amazing Race show. Kelley had to stay home, so she understands what it’s like not to be able to go where you want to go.
The waiter even posed for a picture with me. I think all the crazy TARflies had frightened him a little bit. They kept chanting something about “cannolis now – or death!”
Lunch was a lot of fun, but still no Rachel! I thought for sure she’d show up to hang out with all these silly people. They told me about a party that was happening that evening – maybe Rachel will show for that. I’m going to rest up a bit and then head to the party.