The ‘Ploob enjoys the Garden City
erik posted in Detours on May 14th, 2008
We all know what happens when the BITWRATHPLOOB flies in the cabin… so he made the short trip between islands in the cargo bay, tightly packed in a suitcase with all my possessions. I’d like to say the ‘Ploob helped with the move, but really, it just stood there, hands behind its back, looking on.
The ‘Ploob and I didn’t have a house for our first week in Christchurch. We stayed with friends and their three-year-old daughter, Maddi. Maddi fell madly in love with the ‘Ploob. Until its head came off.
We put the head back on and things were better for a few hours, but we’d unwittingly started a traumatising game of guillotine for the poor little wood bear. I wonder if all kids who meet the ‘Ploob do that?
I felt guilty, so to lighten up - and stop the head-on, head-off, head-on, head-off game - we took the ‘Ploob for a true Christchurch Café experience. The people here loooooove their cappuccino/latte/flat-white, and so did the BITWRATHPLOOB:
Maddi abandoned her ‘fluffy’ after only 3 minutes and grabbed a hold of the ‘Ploob. There was no escaping her.
To avoid yet another beheading, we went out to watch the installation of the lanterns for the Chinese Lantern Festival. Our Wood Bear met all sorts of creatures, some less recognisable than others…
It even met some real ducks:
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