Incredible Journey--Texas to Alaska

After being in Texas with Memommie, Buddy, Daddy Mark, and Nanny, it was time for the remaining members of the moose nugget family to join the humans in Alaska. The really are no words to adequately tell the three day story/saga, but here is a synopsis. Thursday's chore was to catch the animals, aka manhandle Girl-Girl, and take them to Paris to the vet to secure a health certificate. That was accomplished without any trouble at all and pretty much lulled Nanny Nugget into a false sense of security!

After school on Friday, Graham and Fern said their goodbyes. Now Graham really wanted no part of seeing his sister leave as the responsibility of entertaining the humans now falls solely on him!

Buddy shares a brownie with Fern and promises to see her at Christmas. "Buddy, thanks for taking such good care of me and letting me eat your fried chicken. "

Memommie got home from school and had her hands full with Vader who couldn't begin to understand why all the food had been removed from the dryer. He had no idea that he was about to ride 250 miles to Houston. His feeling were hurt as he has found his way into Memommie's heart and couldn't imagine that his needs were being ignored.

Vader and Girl-Girl in the traveling cage telling Memommie goodbye. This follows us gathering up Girl-Girl from behind the toilet! She was wise today about what was going on and had no intention of getting back in a cage! Memommie, thanks for taking such good care of us. We will see you this summer!

"Sarah, you won't believe what happened on the way down. We had been riding forever, and Nanny was driving really fast. All of a sudden, Terri was jostling our cage, telling us to create a ruckus. It seems that Nanny had been stopped for driving too fast and was hoping that we would distract the nice policeman. It seems to have worked because he didn't give Nanny a reward like the nice Kansas officer gave Mike. " The travelers were really glad to get to Sarah's as everyone was really tired. We would have done just as well to have gotten here hours later as there was very little sleep to be had. Fern could not get settled. Girl-Girl hid under the bed. Vader patrolled as if he had been hired as a security officer. During the night, after Fern had gone out 3 or 4 times, Vader began to call for Girl-Girl to come out of hiding. Everytime she ventured out from under the bed, Fern jumped down scaring her back under. Nanny finally threatened to lock Fern in the car if she got up again. Vader was finally successful in getting Girl-Girl to eat a bite and potty. They all finally went to sleep around 7 a.m. and at 9 Fern was snoring so loudly that she woke everyone up! OH WHAT A NIGHT!

It was finally time to get all the animals into their crates and head for the airport. Girl-Girl had a really different idea. Seems she had scratched a hole in the box springs lining and was hiding in the springs themselves. No amount of coaxing could get her out. Vader called her and called her, but she refused to budge.


What she could do was howl and hold onto a spring for dear life!


Nanny's wounds! Girl-Girl really didn't intend to get back in a crate. OUCH! Seems that Nanny was feline-handled.

"The humans at Continental Airlines were so nice. They put my crate together. I'm really ready to see my family! Nanny says that they are going to be waiting for me right after I take a nap. When I wake up I will be with my mommy, daddy, and David. I have missed them a lot. Nanny's house is nice, but there's no place like home!"
"Bye, Nanny. See you Christmas!"
Vader, Girl-Girl and Fern say a big thank-you to Terri and Sarah for helping us today! Alaska, HERE WE COME."