BITWRATHPLOOB World Tour

Aloha, BITWRATHPLOOB!
lizkover posted in Arrivals, Departures on February 18th, 2009

They had known for weeks that a surprise visitor was on “his” way.

Much to my friends’ dismay (and utter confusion), it was The Bitwrathploob.

The animals wondered if the Ploob was one of them…

He seemed to feel fine after his long flight from Boston, so we showed him around the pad and let him get a feel for how we do things around here.

With his rope arms “tied” behind his back, the Ploob jammed on Survivor�s “Eye of the Tiger”.

We were thrilled that he had come with his head intact, considering what we had read about it popping off rather easily. It wasn’t until about 30 minutes later that we realized he was missing his nose.

It just so happened that Chris was in the middle of reading “The Idiot’s Guide to Plastic Surgery on Freakish Inanimate Objects”, so we figured he was qualified to perform a quick nose job on the Ploob.

He whittled away on a small glob of wax, which he then impaled on the thin nail he had previously hammered into the Ploob’s nasal socket. While it sounds like it would be horrifically painful, apparently having no nerves cuts down dramatically on the sensation.

In no time, he was good as new. The only reason one would even be able to tell he had had work done was the fact that his old nose had been bright red, and his new one was a sophisticated white.

From that point on, it was non-stop Hawaiian fun and adventure for our pantsless friend…

Here he is standing in front of one of only two freshwater lakes on the whole Big Island. He didn’t want to swim, he said, because he worried about his hair getting frizzy. He was, however, fascinated by the rope swing (not pictured here). He said it looked just like a cousin of his.

He stood in the frozen path of molten lava that had coursed forth from the Kilauea volcano in 1881. This is Kaumana cave, located on the east side of the island, in Hilo.