A beautifullly wonderful day my friends,
If I may would like to back track to Saturday, June 2, 07, the day Patticake Train reached it's final destination safely at the Reading, Pensylvania Station with engineer
Lori and
Bre stoking the coals, and two precous furball's
Kodi - Daisey Mae assisting as conductor's and guardians over there precious cargo, the now highly acclaimed
Patticake of Concordalor 
where they were warmly greeted and offered the warm hospitality and home of there gracious host's
Elaine and Butch for which we are all very grateful to.
Oh, yes! Saturday, well to relate my saga of Saturday 6/2/07 I have to go back to Friday night June 1, 07 needless to say the whole day and into that evening I was beset with many emotion's, nervousness, anticipation of Patticake becoming a reality, I would actually be receiving, holding my new baby, and I took all these thoughts to bed with me, believe me it wasn't conducive for me to get a good night's sleep at all, well in fact I only got 4 hours of very restless sleep, I was so tired, weak when I awoke, I asked myself, how in the world could I ever make, drive 102 mile's, 204 round trip in the state I was in, I felt awful, and thought I would call Lori, and Elaine, explain to them my situation, and I couldn't make it, if I could possibly make it the next day, hoping I would get enough sleep, then, thankfully some rationality set in, how could I possibly inconvenience these dear friends this way, Lori who drove over 1,500, and now had to turn around and travel another 1,500 to return home, no I couldn't possibly do such a thing so after showering, I felt better and decided to prod Papi along.
The time we agreed on that I would arrive at Elaine's house was 11:00 am, I left my house in Jersey at 8:50 am, believing 2 hours would get me there in plenty of time, well that didn't happen, Rt. 78 in Pennsylvania had massive construction at intervals, one lane open on 3 lane highway, traffic was horendous, and when I got to Allentown Pike, now very close to Elaine's, I had to go through many one horse small town's, and at each town, the center of town's, the main thorofares, they had one light, and at each light the traffic was backed up with stop and go traffic, took me on an average of 10 to 20 minutes to get through each and every town, I think everyone in Pennsylvaia shops at the same time on Saturday's, that or they knew Papi was coming
my consolation though in spite of traffic, I got to see many beautiful farm's and rolling countrysides, Amish riding there horse and buggies on shoulder of road's, this I enjoyed very much, and more than compensated for any irritation I may have had due to traffic delay's I encountered in my travels, eased the pain so to speak.
In any event I chugged along and arrived, sorry to say quite late, 12:30 pm, I wasn't very pleased with myself as I alway's prided myself in being on time, on time for me is 10 minutes early.
I was now getting very nervous as I drew closer to Elaine's house, nervous for one with anticipation of receiving a new furball, and the other meeting new people, even though I knew they were friends from YorkieTalk, had spoken with them on phone, and I had nothing to fear from anyone with a Yorkie Heart, or Spirit, I haven't had much socialization with people for many year's now, I as many of you know have lived alone, the extent of my interaction with people is when I go grocery shopping and someone at checkout counter is willing to talk a little, which isn't often as many live in fear of stranger's here, not that I much blame them with so much violence, and scam's being perpetrated, and on an unprecedented scale, Hummm, I know your asking what in the world is Papi talking about, what has this to do with anything, where does it lead to ?
It leads me to parking in front of Elaine's house at 12:30 pm, now all my nervouseness come's flooding in on me, I almost want to jump in my car and go back home, which of course I couldn't do now, and knowing Patticake was in there waiting for me, I pulled my pant's up by the boot strap's, mustered up any courage I could avail myself of and sauntered up the front step's, the doorbell was frighteningly and amusingly glaring at me, Oh no, I think I'll go somewhere for a potty break and come back, no, no , no, so I emboldened myself, I'll bravely ring it, my now shaking finger slowly approached and depressed the doorbell, ahhh, I was some what releived, kind of proud I got through that, though as found out later, no one heard the doorbell, everyone was out in backyard, it just so happened Elaine had come in to check on something or get a glass of water, and lo and behold she see's Papi standing at front door shaking in his boot's
well I can tell you this, if I had fears of any nature, they would shortly disappear, Elaine opened door, reached out to invite me in with a big warm bear hug, and as we hugged Elaine gave way to tear's, I can only say, I never felt so sincerely welcomed in many year's, it was if we had been friends, known one another a lifetime, at that very moment I can honestly say there was no longer a need of me feeling nervous or fearing anything, Elaine is a very warm, sensitive, and compassionate lady, who is only capable of exuding love, I could now breath a sigh of relief, I was totally at ease, and comfortable.
Hummm, this is very long, perhaps friends you may wish at this time to take a potty break, have something to wet your whistle, and come back later to finish reading
Sorry so long.
Everyone back from break , ready to read on ?
Great, follow me along with Elaine to her beautiful large backyard plenty of tree's and lot's of grass for the furball's to widdle, romp in, to go on, when we entered yard, Lori, Bre and Elaine's children were surprised, as they didn't know I had arrived, well immediately Lori, and Bre also gave me one of the warm welcome's I ever had, with a big hug and kiss,they made me feel so wanted, as it was more than obvious they were so happy to meet me, I them of course,
WOW, was this turning into one beautiful day, at that time Bre put Patticake into my arms tearfully so , and you had to see her face to know how difficult and sad this was for her, what a strong, special little lady she is, so much like her Mom, I was indescribably filled with joy, my heart just welled with happiness my friends, I was so thankful and grateful to finally meet Lori, Bre and Elaine, and have Patticake in my arms, the reality now sank in, the Patticake Train was, is in truth a modern day Miracle for which I thank each and everyone of you my friends for your support, and part in making this, the miracle it has turned out to be.
No, No, No don't go away, there's more.
Elaine now introduced me to her lovely children, three that were there, and I can't tell you or count the hugs and kisses I got from them, and the heartwarming part is it didn't stop all day, I would be talking to someone, play with by the way Elaines precious babie's, Peanut, Dixie and Max, and were they ever so affectionate, friendly, and at any unforeseen moment during the day, including Bre, I would suddenly find myself being hugged and kissed on the cheek, and a beautiful child saying, " I love you Papi", I can't begin to describe how the love and attention these children showed me, won my heart, or how difficult it was to hold back my tears, I didn't want the children to see a grown Papi crying, I don't think they could understand, if someone is happy, why would they cry, people only cry when there hurt, I didn't want to lose out on a good thing
the children made me feel so wanted, and loved, they truely made my day wonderfully special.
Yes, there's more, the children even did a circus show for me which was adorable, I also had a chance to play with all of Elaine's, and Lori's babies, Kodi and Daisey Mae, well not so much Kodi as he was kind of independant, kept his eye on Daisey Mae when I held her, she was more affectionate or tolerated me more, they are beautiful babies, I was in Yorkie Heaven so to speak being around so many Yorkie's, what a pleasure and fun, yet it's not over, around 1:30 pm I believe it was, we all got a beautiful surprise, a supporter, cheerleader of mine from New Jersey with her two adorable babie's , Bubba and Sissy drove all the way from South Jersey, and I can't thank her enough for coming out to meet , and support us, and quite a task at that, a sacrifice of love on Joan's part as her babies don't do well in the car, they got sick a number of time's, and she would have to stop to clean up, Joan is a lovely lady, who also has such a soft heart, a loving and compassionate personality, and I thank you Joan for everything, for caring dear lady, I will never forget you or your kindeness, and was happy and relieved to know you returned home safely.
No, No, No, not finished.
Uh Oh, I had to shorten this post, was notified to many charactors, I'm only at 13,233, have to reduce to 10,000, I'm sorry, though you may be releived
I have to complete this, please bear with me, I will immediately post the next 5 or so paragraphs in ubject title - Patticake Station #2
Thank you for your patience.
Papi