Buongiorno visitor.
Didn’t see me coming did you?
That’s because I was stealthily sneaking by you on my way to swat the annoying spiders that are invading my living space wearing the Assassin’s Creed outfit that Nicholas made for me.
Requiescat in pace, suckers!
Late afternoon.
It is raining, as it always does. A steady patter of water strikes the windows and walls of the workshop.
Within the workshop, there is a bear. And his bud. Both are silent.
The bear sits and watches with intense concentration, completely fixated on the task at hand. With every stitch, an object begins to take form.
The bear continues to watch. It is coming closer to completion.
It is a hat. His hat.
Finally it is done. He leans over and examines the finished work.
Then, with a nod of satisfaction, he dons the Fedora hat.
He is now ready.
Thanks for making me a hat Nicholas! This dapper bear is ready to play detective in LA Noir!
My best bear bud and I were acting like good old fashioned law abiding citizens when we got kind of arrested going across the Canada / US border today.
Well, to be precise, we got surrounded by cop cars and drug dogs, and then my best bear bud was removed from the car, handcuffed and taken away from me to a detainment room where he was searched and interrogated.
I tried my best to save my bear bud and had my paws up ready to put up a fight, but I guess Nicholas thought we’d better not make a scene so I composed myself and instead grumpily surveyed our surroundings.
Glaring wasn’t forbidden so I continued to glare as hard as I could at the dogs who tried to sniff me and at the police officers who were searching the car for drugs, of which of course there were none. There wasn’t even any chocolate in the car! And here Nicholas thought having me leave my laser behind would make the border crossing smoother.
40 minutes into the ordeal they finally released us when they realized we weren’t smuggling drugs or guns. After all we were being good law abiding citizens.
It’s was just a bud and his bear having a road trip. Why on earth did they decide to stop us? Jerks. They delayed our ETA to my resumption of gaming. At least Nicholas was amused.
This bear, however, was not.
This morning I went to a parade.
Nicholas explained that it was something to experience, so experience a parade we did.
No parade experience is complete without a portable folding chair so when Nicholas’s dad went for coffee I took his chair for myself.
He came back, so it was back to the backpack for me.
Visit a parade : check.
Humour my best bear bud by going to a parade : check.
Ok, it was kind of fun to go see a parade.
That’s right.
My best bear bud built me a Captain’s chair so I can issue orders from the comfort of my very own hickory chair.
Does your best bear bud do that for you?
Didn’t think so.
Nicholas, hot chocolate! and games!
The title says it all.
Well, I should clarify that’s so many alfajores until I eat them.
I remembered to be thoughtful. I shared a little when Nicholas went over to visit his mom and I tagged along as the bear-er of goodies from my tourist-days in Chile.
Today, Nicholas went out and bought his dad a bike.
At first I thought maybe he bought the bike for me because, well, why wouldn’t he buy me a bike?
But then I read the note.
That’s ok, I’d only want a bike with a basket so that I can sit in the basket ET style while Nicholas carts me around.
Real cocoa.
That’s right, this bear knows how to sniff out his cocoa stash as well.
I’m back home!
You know what that means!
1. Use my bear sense to sniff out my Facebook hoodie.
2. Take Nicholas’ credit card and promptly make up for lost time.
Item #1 – check.
Onto item #2.
Nicholas got me my own my-sized Moai statue-pisco!
This is going into my gaming bear cave. Because ever serious gaming bear cave needs a moai statue in it.
I like it so much I go to sleep with it.
