london, baby!

It’s been a long build-up, but the day is finally here.  I fly to London this evening.  Trepidation was lurking last week, but it suddenly vanished yesterday afternoon and in its place is a calm I haven’t felt in awhile.   Sure, fear might try to squeeze its way past the airport check-in point but I do believe it’s a restricted item on board and I’m just going to have to leave it behind and trust this feeling — that this adventure is going to blow my mind wide open.  Plus, I’m not alone… I’m bringing my super cool posse with me.

I found Gnomie’s passport while I was looking for mine.  It turns out that this little dude has a name and his name is Cedric and he is from the UK.  Cedric is pretty pumped about this trip.  He is a traveling gnome after all and a traveling gnome doesn’t like to stand still on a windowsill staring into space all day.  I think we are going to make fine travel companions as he has fondness for drinking homemade brews and he doesn’t shy away from the camera.  In fact, he insisted that I snap 2 shots of him with his passport.  The second one to show off his profile (his right side is his best side).  Also, gnomes are seven times as strong as the average human (who knew?) so I am well protected.

As for Wilbur, he’s been drinking way too much coffee and brushing up on his Italian and Spanish.

Hola!  Me llamo Wilbur.  Tienen banos equipados para puercos?   Do you have bathrooms equipped for pigs?  Valid question.

Buongiorno.  Mi chiamo Wilbur.  Dove la gelateria? Where is the gelateria?  oink oink.

We’ll have to hide Wilbur in a secret compartment during the flight so they don’t put him under quarantine.  The gnome and I have already plotted a diversion — a crazy little jig he does.  It works every time.  I bet you would be distracted too if you saw a gnome dancing for you.

Well, that’s it folks.   I’ll try my best to blog from abroad but I can’t guarantee anything.  Let’s put it this way, given the choice between drinking limoncello here, or blogging, I promise to choose the former.

Getting ready to take a big juicy bite out of life.

Attraversiamo (let’s cross over), shall we?