Fofurree Central

DAY THREE 10TH MARCH 2009
Bonnie and I awoke early but the humans didn't. They just rolled over and slept on and on. Every trick that we could think of we tried nothing worked so we just had to let them sleep, it was very frustrating especially as this was OUR shopping day.

This was to be the most exciting day of our lives, as it turned out. We caught a train, and even had to to change stations,tricky that. Bonnie was non stop chatter about the new shoes, but I had a secret desire to find a better shoulder bag than Bonnie's. After a lot of heated discussion about where to go,we eventually found the shopping centre – it was enormous – six stories high and covering about two blocks, with all the joys of discovery before us.

We headed first to the bear shop – and found it had a complete "bear make over" department – to make slightly warn bears look like new. This shop was more than a bear could dream about. Shoes to the left of us, bags to the right, fluff your fur out machines, give you a nose lift – choose your own snout – put sparkle back into the eyes, a complete colour change if you like, blue rinse through the hair was very tempting, but bonnie was having none of that – it wouldn't go with the shoes!! So we had a body make over and we even had our overcoats removed, our straps have been updated so that we can now change our outfits – this might stop Bonnie's obsession with shoes.

We went through each department choosing outfits to try on. This is such a novelty since we have been a little hampered with our big coat limitations before. Bonnie and I found six outfits to try on, we agreed that we didn't have to dress alike anymore, so we went to different fitting rooms and to choose which one we would buy. Guess what, we both ended up liking the same outfit!!!! I found a wonderful bag, pink and so much prettier than Bonnie's, the trouble was Bonnie's human thought so too and bought her one, not as nice as mine but very similar. Bonnie got new shoes but I decided my lovely gold and silver sandals looked wonderful with the new outfit so I didn't bother. ( I am really saving up for another outfit, now that we can change them as I have lots and lots of lovely shoes).

We looked and felt like two new bears. We floated out of the shop feeling wonderful, and looking forward to wandering around and looking for photo opportunities. We found two sheepies in a shop window that would have been great, my human asked if it would be possible to take a photo but the lady in the shop had limited imagination and no 'joy of life' in her and stated 'it would be against shop regulations to change the display window” as if!!

We took one photo on a road cross over but no other photo opportunities came our way, but we cared not, we felt and looked transformed and the sun shone the birds sang and every thing was right with our world. We went back to the hostel very tired little bears and fell asleep dreaming beary happy dreams.