Sally in Santa Barbara ... continued.

Sally has had a wonderful time visiting James, Loris and Colin in Santa Barbara. Colin's girlfriend, Kelly, even made some new clothes for Sally. Look at her Mickey Mouse ears and her fancy new flip-flops in the above picture on the boat in "It's a Small World" in Disneyland.

Sally lost one of her boots at the supermarket, so Kelly made her a replacement boot while she was working on Sally's wardrobe. Thank you, Kelly! (If Sally hadn't been running through the avocados, perhaps she wouldn't have lost that boot ....)

Anyway, once Sally had her ears and flip-flops, she was ready for anything. She had a wonderful time exploring Disneyland, especially meeting so many very famous personalities. Here are two of the people Sally met there. Do you recognize them?

Yes, Sally got to meet Minnie and Mickey. Does that make her a mouseketeer?

Over on the left, you can see Sally with her whole family at the big C in California. From left to right: Loris, James, Sally, Colin and Kelly.

You can also see the clock in "It's a Small World" and the Christmas tree on Main Street.

Sally even went to see two plays: 15-Minute Hamlet and Rosecrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. She said that she enjoyed them, but James says ,"To tell you the truth, she was asleep under the chair before Act I of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern" was over, but she thought the "15-Minute Hamlet" was pretty funny and she loved getting her picture taken with the cast in the dressing room before the show started (see picture below.) Besides, it was pretty late for her to be up. ".

When she and her family weren't out and about, Sally hung out in the backyard and enjoyed the California climate. Most of all, she wanted to touch a palm tree, so that was one of the very first things she did when she climbed out of her envelope in Santa Barbara. She also climbed into a planter to check out the bird-of-paradise plants, and puttered in the back garden.

Sally finds it impossible to believe that back home in Mallorytown the temperature has been -12 degrees Celcius for the past week!

Sally is now taking the overnight mail to San Francisco to visit Elias and his friends. She's crawled into her sleeping bag to keep warm on the highway, and has her teddy bear snuggled up beside her. She's tired out from all her travels around Santa Barbara, and the mail truck's engine is very soporific .... so I suspect that in five minutes Sally will be sound asleep.

Sleep tight, Sally! Bon voyage, Sally!