"Hey, Kathleen, what's this?" Emily wondered when they found a large box in the family room. "I don't know." Kathleen said.
"Hey, I wonder if it's a traveling doll?" Emily exclaimed, suddenly.
"I've got a knife, I'll open it." Kathleen said, brandishing a large knife. "Uhhh....careful, Kathleen." Emily worried. "Don't worry." Kathleen said.
Soon, she had the box open. "Peanuts!" Emily cried.
"Look, an AG box." Kathleen said, pointing.
"What a pretty diary." Emily oohed.
"Aw, you can look at that later." Kathleen said. "There's more in the box."
"See, a pair of shoes!" Kathleen exclaimed.
"Ah!" She squealed as a white-wrapped object crawled out of the box. "It's a ghost!"
"No, silly! It's me!" Traveling Chrissa said, throwing off the tissue paper.
"Oh, boy, I'm glad it's you and not a ghost!" Kathleen said. "Yeah, me too." Chrissa chuckled.
"We've been expecting you." Emily said.
The girls looked at Chrissa's journal and oohed and ahhed over the pretty pictures from her last host.
"I miss you, Mom, but I can't wait to have lots of adventures here in Ohio!"
"BYE!" Chrissa called.
Chrissa helps me practice my piano.
"The Road to Lisdoonvarna is a really pretty song!" Chrissa says.
"Here I'm helping Host tune her Bodhran."
"This is hard for a someone my size to play ." Chrissa groans.
"Rock on, Host!" Chrissa cheers.
Pretty red tulip
Just hanging out.
I love this gorgeous girl! I want one!
All our trees are in bloom...perfect time for dolly photos.
Taking a rest.....
......In a field of dandelions.
With the spring snowflakes.
Climbing a tree!
"Hey! Chrissa here! My host family is throwing me a big farewell sleepover!"
Half the sleepover guests...
And the other half.
The Guest of Honor!
A game of UNO...
Kirsten, Etta and Rejoice
"Ugh, this isn't going so well." Anna fusses as she tries to get all her cards sorted out.
"UNO!" Chrissa shouts, proudly holding up her single card left.
And the winner is...
"Yay! I won!" Chrissa cheers. "Great game, everybody."
"How about we do some dancing?" Etta suggested, holding up her iPod.
"Oh yeah!" Jess cheers, jumping up.
Rock it out, girls!
Etta's the DJ...she loves listening to music but doesn't really like dancing.
Rockin' it out...
Whoo whoo!
Chrissa doin' it...
After dancing, they were so tired they decided to watch a movie. And of course, they picked... :-)
Star Trek: Voyager. :-)
Season 3.
Some of the girls already went to bed...Joan and Josefina conked out not very long after the dancing was finished.
The rest of the girls watched Star Trek late into the night until finally...
They all finally went to bed.
Chrissa, Adria, Molly and Anna stayed up chatting even later into the night.
But finally, even they fell sleep.
~ * ~ Good night ~ * ~
Next morning...Traveling Chrissa with all my dolls!
Chrissa
Lia hitching a ride with Rejoice close behind. :-)
Time for miss Chrissa to go home. Her souviners include a cherry-print halter dress...
And a little Ohio bell with the state flower and the state bird on it.
Closeup of the dress.
