So, soon after I posted the last entry, Monte swung by and picked me up. We went up to Quality Foods, the most amazing grocery store, and bought a few things. They have an upstairs that houses the most awesome amazing stuff. Its a cross between a gift shop and a kitchen shop...but its an outlet. So everything up there is fifty per cent off!! Plus its a coffee shop...serving Starbucks coffee and goodies. Fantastic place! So I went to town and did some serious Xmas shopping!! I had to keep Tank size in mind. No room!!!!
We then went to Pat and Angie's. We spent an awesome afternoon in their super interesting place! Three rats, four cats (crazy interesting ones), a fish tank full of ....I don't know, and a house full of stuff...I could stay there for days and never see it all!!! They are such hospitable nice people. I totally enjoyed myself. At six we went up to Little Bavaria and had a scrumptious dinner.
I think Bavarian food falls in a category all by itself. Can you actually get a bad Bavarian Dinner? I don't think so. I started with for real, properly done escargot...which probably isn't exactly Bavarian, but who cares? They were amazing. Swimming in butter, distinctly garlicky and delicious, I scarfed them all down. Fortunately its one of those little morsels that others rarely want a taste of! Hahaha!!
Then the schnitzel...ahhhhh! I am not really eating meat much anymore but I ordered the schnitzel covered with shrimps and scallops (well one scallop) in a white wine sauce. Served with spetzle (it was only so so unfortunately) and mounds of red sweet cabbage. I sent the left overs with Monte!
He dropped me back at the motel. It was around ten. For the next two hours I was bombarded with hall noise. Its funny, I read trip advisor reviews and they mentioned a number of times how people would hang out in the hall way and yell and talk and laugh and just generally be noisy. They weren't wrong. The room next to me hosted a gathering of men. Nice ones...no swearing or obnoxious convo, but LOUD!! Finally around one in the morning I phoned the front desk and they came down and put an abrupt stop to it.
Then at six in the morning someone upstairs got up. Holy Crap!! He thundered about up there, dropping stuff, floor cracking and creaking, showered and used the john, unfortunately I could hear it all!!! As he left his room, I did too...to take Molly out. Too late but more about that in a minute. We met in the lobby. The guy was twice the size of Monte...and thats saying something. He had to be at least six hundred pounds, huffing and puffing and waddling. No wonder the noise was huge!
But back to Molly. She was laying on the bed. I was kind of reluctant to let her. The bedding was snowy white and beautiful. I seriously wanted to steal the bedspread! But, it was the dog room and I payed extra for it. She was laying right beside me and as I was listening to the noise upstairs in total wonderment, I suddenly heard another noise, right beside me...a squishy burbly noise....one I recognised. Damn damn damn!!! I lifted Molly's back end up by her tail and yup, a great big awful stinky mess. Thanks to all the freaking cat food she ate the day before at Pat and Angie's!
I scooped her up and threw her into the bathroom and went back and scooped up that lovely bedspread. Back into the bathroom and quickly washed out (I say so easily) the bedspread. Then, much to my dismay, Molly had managed to spread her smelly hairy mess all over the bathroom...floor, behind the toilet (where she was hiding), all over the wall and toilet and side of the bathtub. What a mess!! I put her in the sink and told her to stay and then cleaned the whole bathroom. Next I washed her lower half and got her all clean. Then we went outside, same time as big guy upstairs. Ach Jeez!! Dogs!!
Monte picked me up before checkout and we hit a few spots before leaving town. We had an uneventful trip to the ferry. And once again things happen.
I heard a dog yelping and barking. I spotted a guy with two shepherds in his back yard just above where we were in line for the ferry. He was mad at one of his dogs. So he grabbed him by the scruff, dragged him up to the fence, got over top of him and yelled and yelled then hit him on the head as he yelled then started to kick the dog's back end!!! I poked Monte and said look!!!! Suddenly Monte bellered out the window (and can he ever bellow...he is really really loud!) "CUT THE F*CK OUT!!! LEAVE THAT DOG ALONE!!!" The guy immediately yelled back, "SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!! GO BACK TO THE MAINLAND!!" To which Monte yelled back, "I'M CALLING THE COPS...HILLBILLY!!!"
Which he did, the non emergency number. They knew the house and the guy...as did the SPCA. They called Monte too and got all the info they could from us. They are going to send someone out today or tomorrow to teach the guy how to properly discipline the dogs and check them out to see how they are.
Last night I just stayed at the motel. I had supper a la vending machine...spicy noodles and Oh Henry! Sometime during the evening I dozed off. When I awoke I saw I missed phone calls and my phone is really loud! And Monte popped in, leaving the jeep and I never even woke up!!! He called me and called me but I wouldn't wake up! Scary!
Today we had lunch with Clare and Tish. April and Myles came down and Monte was there too. What a lovely lovely time. I just love those two. We had such a wonderful time with them. I so so wish we lived closer.
Now I am in the room watching hockey. April and Myles are coming down at seven and we are going to order Greek food and eat on the bed and watch more hockey. I love this!!!! TTYL
Shovel list...scumbags that abuse dogs...or cats...or any other animal.....
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