The Adventures of Sunsette -- Texas Travels, Part II— Apr. 12

[Alliecat]

Thanks everyone! Yeah, the bakery was pretty cool. It's really neat that someone made that garden for the library too.

Having the opportunity to hang out with some of your long-time online acquaintances IRL must have been a lot of fun! Was there any initial awkwardness, or are people in real life pretty much the same as they come across online?

Well, I didn't know a lot of folks, but it was pretty comfortable, because no matter how different people are otherwise, there are dolls in common, so you can walk up to anyone and start a conversation about them. In that sense, it's WAY better than the average social gathering! And the first time I went, having chatted a lot online and Skyped with a very good dolly friend, it didn't feel like we were "meeting" for the first time at all; it was like "Oh, hi! you got here OK."
Also, I thought it was hilarious that several people who wouldn't know what *I* looked like, came up to me and said, "Is that Sunsette??"
You should go some year. It's a lot of fun.

Well... it sounds like you'll be busy this coming spring constructing a fairy garden, complete with a pond, for your girls!

Oh boy, I wish! I'd love a pond and fairy garden. Alas, before that project, a more critical one would be moving the entire veggie garden down off the shady hill and out into the sunny middle of the yard. Not too likely... $$$$....

Well, SO belated, but, "life" kind of intervened and I'm so far behind sorting the summer photos, but the PrettyTiny Film Company's Executive Producer finally put the crew on notice for a deadline, that no more adventures may be posted till we catch up with PUDDLE. Of course, since this is mostly the Executive Producer's fault, the rest of the crew are pretty much sitting around watching. But they want more adventures, so someone needs to Get It Done.

Part 4 -- Beyond PUDDLE -- June 26


We are on our way to Iowa!



The bridge to Iowa. Google couldn't handle the traffic backup and detour, so it navigated us in a circle and we went over this bridge 3 times!!



It's the Mississippi!



We dipped our toes.



In the lookout tower from the previous pic.



"How cool is this! There's a park all the way down here named for MEEE!...
But... they spelled it wrong! Can you call my agent...?"



"Also in Sunset(te) park were us-sized mushrooms!"



We went to the Iowa Parrot Rescue. There are actually ear-protectors hanging inside the door when you go in, for those with sensitive ears. That's how many birds they have and how noisy they are! They rescue parrots from all kinds of places, from drug dealers and smugglers to loving owners who have died (parrots live a long time). TrueFan has adopted 3 birds from them.



"A really bad picture of me with one of the birds."



"Guess where we went on the way home!"
The famous Tuesday Morning that Canadians all wish they could go to when the Great Pullip Hunt enters a new chapter. And some of you may remember that Tuesday the fox joined us here.



Couldn't get a good picture of this lovely rainbow. It heralded some very stormy weather.



Hanging out in TrueFan's garden with our new friend Aya. (We didn't bring extra shoes! )



There were frost warnings still, when we left home!! It's hot here. It's nice.



"Peek-a-boo!"



"This is me-sized... sort of... but the door isn't."



Getting acquainted.
More to come...