Alice reviews the trip
Everyone made it home OK, and Mom was actually insufficiently surly to be communicative, despite being locked in a car with the spawn for hours and hours and hours…
They ran out of time to make it to the Lego™ store. Things were so desperate that poor Mom had to just wave at the IKEA store as they drove by. That had to hurt, but she bore the pain bravely. Charles was mollified via the purchase of a stuffed Pacific white dolphin which he named “Timmy”. Charles had been agitating for another Sharky, and while he likes Timmy, he’s still thinking that increasing his Sharky collection.
Alice got a fish / cetacean of some sort, its most important property being that it is very pink.
Mom didn’t take many pictures, but here they are.
It took me a while to figure out what you meant.
No, we got that for Christmas a year or two back from Mimi. It’s stuffed. The kids like to play with it and sit on it. Polynomial, however, doesn’t find it of much interest (presumably because it has no doggie smells).
If you look closely here, you can see it laying on its side on the far right of the picture.
