…with his dog, Amos
Day 10: In which we say goodbye to friends and our trip ends on an unavoidably sad note.
After breakfast and a few hours checking out Vegas, we took our friends home via the old spacey wacey trick. Brian, Caroline, Lauren and Sadie were dropped off at home in Canada, with Sadie giving all of our critters kisses, especially Lucy. Upon taking Leon home, he stopped to slap paws with Flash, then rubbed himself on Lucy’s leg, confirming something I suspected. We then took Sharon home.
Last off the bus were Spike and Mary, then we popped back to Casa Cross.
(Lucy: Hey, Flash, let’s take a little walk.)
(Flash: Okay, sis.)
Now the Magic Bus is stowed away in the Doc Cave, Grace is going through the mail, Abby & Bea are in their imaginary goat barn, Flash is nowhere to be found and Sasha is off somewhere. Lucy is sleeping.
Lucy.
You folks in the real world know that she was the elephant in the room, being sick with cancer and all. I had hoped she’d live until after this was finished, but it didn’t work out. Since she died while the story was already started, I decided to keep her in it, but now reality and fantasy catch up to each other, as they did with Daisy & Winker. Next year we’ll have a new real girldog on the trip, but we’ll remember Lucy. She was a very good girl in both worlds. Unless you were a squirrel.
There will be another report next year, for DogCon 7, even if a miracle happens and I get to go to GenCon.
This ends my report for 2013. Doc out.
(Lucy: Hey, folks, the last 5 years have been wonderful, but I’ve gotta move on to whatever is next. Be good to each other and adopt a shelter animal. Goodbye.)
CatCon 6 is over
but the Cross Family & Friends will be back next year for…
DogCon 7
(Sasha: Kobayashi Maru, Kirk style, folks. I don’t like losing.)
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