Sue and Carolyn's Excellent Adventure... To Muncie Indiana

Well it started out innocently enough.  Patty & Lee Strayer with Adopt A Lab invited us to come spend the weekend with them to catch up, see the renovations at the facility etc.  I was going to fly in from Kansas City and Susan was going to fly in from Detroit... we were going to spend the day and fly back to our respective cities the next day.... This is where it took a turn for the "strange" and went downhill from there.  Susan and I talked on the phone about our trip, organizing and coordinating flight times etc and then it happened....  I said "hold on..  wait a minute....  Sue, this is our chance, why don't you take a week off and come back to Kansas City with me and we can transport ourselves back."  So of course Sue being the Transport GODDESS that she is sprung into action.. feverishly typing up a run sheet.  This in and of itself is where hilarity started to ensue...  there were several fits of laughter as we constructed our Run Sheet Bios.... 


Susan got it all put together and "blasted" it out as usual.  She received dozens of emails with big giant LOL's and "that's hilarious" comments.. so she had to send it out again saying.. "Yes, we know it's funny... but seriously we NEED a ride." 

We did this because we wanted the opportunity to meet face to face with the drivers.  Many of you have worked with us for years now, we email, we facebook and we even chat on the phone but we had never had the chance to "see" each other.   I also wanted to try and write a story about transport.. through the eyes of the dogs.  What a wonderful opportunity this would be, a chance to see what it's like to be handed off from car to car, never knowing who or what you might meet along the way... not to mention it was a "free" ride back home with lots of snacks... It was a "win/win" situation.. lol

A little about our stay in the Culturally Iconic Scenic Muncie Indiana:

We arrived at the Indianapolis Airport on Friday morning,  mostly without incident...  I was fortunate enough to fly straight through.. Susan unfortunately, flew from Detroit via Baltimore... WTH???  We were picked up via AAL Limo Service.. AKA the Lil White Dogmobile and escorted back to Muncie.  We had a great time meeting up with Patty and going to check out the facility and seeing some familiar doggie faces as well.  We headed back to Patty and Lee's to hang out, visit and get ready for a wonderful dinner... Turns out Patty is an Amazing Chef....   After dinner we had a few drinks and hung out late into the evening catching up. 

On Saturday we spent the day at AAL assisting with a video of Miss Daisy and fine tuning our professional photography skills doing photo shoots of quite a few of the "new" AAL kids.  We had a blast working with the dogs... as always, AAL has a wonderful group of canine occupants. 

After our photo shoots we were again whisked off to the hotel via our "limo" and headed up to our room (3rd floor) to shower and get ready for another fabulous Chef Patty Gourmet Meal... YUM YUM...  so up to the 3rd floor we go... shoved the key in the little slot thingy... and nothin... grrr.. shove it in again... still nothin, again.. yep you guessed it.. nothin, so back to the elevator we go and down to the desk.. Lucky for us "Snotty" Sara was on duty... we told her of our plight, she snatched the key from my hand stuck it in her magic machine and promptly handed it back to me saying "here ya go"...  so without further conversation we went back up to the 3rd floor and with great precision inserted our key and ... wait for it.....  NOTHIN, NADA, ZIP... ZILCH... a few more swipes to no avail.  another trip down... same reaction, same "help" another trip back up and same anticlimactic outcome...  long story short after the 4th trip down.. we called her from the hallway...  she said she would be up shortly...  we very diligently just kept swiping the damn thing until finally...  the door relented and allowed us entry... WHEW

Again another wonderful meal, wonderful wine and great conversation... We also worked with Lee on a video interview about transport in general as well as a very special transport for our boy Moose.. this handsome hunk is Moose.

Now after a glass of wine... um... or two we all shared funny stories...  Aside from "Check Out At Wal Mart" I think my vote for funniest was "The Vegas" story...  This will probably be one of those stories that will always be kind of our "inside" joke but I do want to share one picture that I think Patty & Lee will get a kick out of and I hope it will put a smile on their faces.....

Now for those of you have not been to who have not been to the Cultural Mecca of Indiana.. here is a photo for you... This is the Cultural center in Muncie.

This my friends is where all of the "culture" in Muncie is kept... so it doesn't get dirty or broken...  lol  Just kidding Muncie seems like a great place.  We saw the sight.. yes I said sight while we were there and I must admit Sue and I had a pretty good chuckle while sitting in our hotel room wondering what the Ball State mascot was and in true childish form had many laughs discussing the Balls of Muncie...  *wink wink

Anyway, I am going to end this blog post here.. an intermission of sorts.. so get up stretch your legs, hit the "little rescuers room" and maybe grab a snack...  The actual transport is next.