The “House Critters” Henrietta’s Travel Day Part 2

    Henrietta awoke with a jump due to a very loud noise which she had never heard before and she did not know where she was. Where she was and why she was there dawned on her as she became fully awake. Riding in a car with Amy and Barb during a trip to the Outlet Mall answered the where and why but the noise was still a mystery. Turns out she had been asleep quite a while, they were back in the small city and the noise was a police car with the siren on coming up behind them. Henrietta had never heard anything so loud, it hurt her ears and when it got next to them all the flashing lights hurt her eyes. She hopped off the seat onto the floor to get away from sounds and lights and while it helped with the lights the sounds were still loud. They were in traffic with an accident ahead of them, which is where the police car was headed but it could not move due to the blocked road. Amy thought the sound would be painful to Henrietta as it was bothering Barb and her so she dropped her jacket over the seat giving Henrietta something to cover her ears with, which she did immediately. It seemed like a long time before the police car moved and even longer before they moved away from the horrible noise although it was probably only ten minutes but to Henrietta it seemed much longer than that. She was ready to go home where she would tell the rest of the House Critters about the trip and all the stuff she had seen.

   The humans had other ideas, they were out shopping, there were two more stores to visit and both of them were large. Amy pulled into a very large parking lot, not as big as the mall but still way bigger than what Henrietta was use to. They were at a Super Wal-Mart and Barb convinced Henrietta to ride around in the shoulder bag to see all that was in the store. To Henrietta this place looked like the mall but all the different stores were just a section within this gigantic store and in addition there were groceries. Not finding what they wanted the humans went back to the car and Henrietta thought they were going home. They went to the light to leave the parking lot but did not turn onto the main road instead they went straight across and up a small hill where Henrietta saw another large parking lot. Once again the shoulder bag went into the store with Henrietta in it. This was BJ’s where they picked up items in gigantic packages, Henrietta was not sure she could jump over any of them. The paper towel pack had the equivalent of 22 regular rolls, the toilet paper pack had the equivalent of 85 regular rolls and there were 800 napkins, the three packages filled up the cart! They went through the self check out and Amy let Henrietta ride on the conveyer belt that took the items from the scanner to where you put them back into a cart to take them out to the car. Henrietta actually rode it three times and wished there were more items to scan as it was fun.

   This time when they got to the light at the main road Amy headed home, this pleased Henrietta. She had a great time, except for the noisy car, saw lots of places, saw more items than she could remember and would be able to talk about the trip for quite awhile!