Day 26

The ferry drivers told me that my Captain was coming home today and I looked at them like I was asking "really?" and got excited. Just before I was about to go home though, I got to stay with Nesta a while longer. The Captain's ferry that somehow flies in the air, Santa must lend out the other reindeer or something to make these ferrys fly, was delayed. When she did come home, she rushed through the door and we danced and kissed and she rubbed my belly. I kept going to the door as if someone else were supposed to come home with the Captain, but she told me my Papa was still away. She told me how much she missed me and that she really worked hard to get home to me. She said she told a rented ferry driver, she called it a taxi, to "step on it Boston style" to get her to the long ferry that runs on two tracks. She said she made it in 11 minutes from the flying ferry to the tracked ferry place and then ran with all her Christmas presents and clothes to get onto the ferry to get to me. Thank goodness she made it so I didn't have to wait another hour for her.

When I was giving her the wet noses she likes better than licks, she told me I was a good boy and that she hoped I was good with the ferry drivers, Nesta, and kitty. I told her I was very good and shared stories with her about my Christmas vacation. I told her how kitty, an odd looking four legged creature clearly different than my kind, did not like it when I licked her ear and how it swatted at me. My feelings were hurt and I wanted my Captain to make me feel better but instead I followed kitty around to make sure she was okay and didn't let her out of my sight. I proudly told her how I helped the ferry drivers clean up their Christmas packages by picking up boxes in my mouth and taking them from the living room into the kitchen. I offered to do this for her too.

Even though I slept almost all day Sunday, I was really tired tonight. We opened the presents from Nesta (see photo) and I played with the squeaky pig while the Captain unpacked her presents and ate her dinner. Then, I ate a yummy pig ear and some of the cookies that Nesta made me while the Captain rested on the comfortable place where I am not allowed. I quickly fell asleep and started snoring, dreaming of days when my Captain and my papa were here with me and wishing my Nesta were too.