A short, surprise visit from Fleur de Bee...
Hey, I forgot to tell all my BeePs about this: Guess who showed up at the Closing Ceremonies of the Bee Games the other night? Give up? Well, I’ll just tell you, then: Fleur de Bee showed up! She didn’t tell anybody she was flying in from Paris for the Festivities, so it was a great surprise to see her.
Beefore I spotted her, the only thing I could see was her red Beret, so I thought maybee we had a member of the Bee Kazzzzoo Band & Orchestra who hadn’t gotten the memo about wearing the right colour Beret (black, not red), but then I saw that she was standing around, talking to the French Team (who, by the way, won the Aerial Beenastics Competition last week), and that she didn’t have a Kazzzzoo.
I think we saw each other at exactly the same time. When she saw me, she came rushing over with her wings open to give me a big hug and kiss me on both cheeks (she does that, ya’ know).
“Fleur?” I still wasn’t sure it could possibly bee her.
“Ouî!” she said, which means “of course it is” in French.
“Oh mon cheri Georgie!” she said in that cute little French accent she has - you know the one.
“Fleur!” I said. “I’m so glad you’re here! You should’ve told us you were coming so we could have had a nice jug of Chateau d’Chateau chilling for you!”
“You are zo zweeeeet, mon ami, but I can ztay for but un moment.” In case you don’t know French, ‘un moment’ (of course, she said it like the French moment, not the English moment, which is different), means “I had planned to stay longer, but due to circumstances beeyond my control, I’m afraid I’ll hafta leave very soon, beecause my presence is required elsewhere”. It sounds so much more elegant in French, ya’ know? So that was disappointing.
Anyway, I wanted to stick around and try to convince her to visit a little longer, but it was getting to bee time for our Performance at the Closing Ceremonies, and I was still trying to remember where I’d left my Kazzzzoo, so I had to tell her, “Arvwar”, which (in French) means, “I’m sorry, but I hafta go find my Kazzzzoo, but I hope I get to see ya’ later.”
Well, it turns out that she’s still here. She’s staying with ButterCup and, the last I heard, the two of them were gonna go to a Beerobics Class at Bendy Halloway-Over’s “Bee Fit” Health Club. (ButterCup still goes there, but she still refuses to eat the salads.)
So tonight, I invited ButterCup and Fleur to come over to the Boot Box for some of my famously delicious French Pollen Soup. Of course, I’ve never made that beefore, so I’m hoping that Great Grandma Gee Gee can take some time out of her buzzy schedule baking Royal HoneyChew Krisp Cookies and show me how to do that. She’s an excellent cook, ya’ know. Everybody says so.
I think I’m gonna go ask her if she can do that.
I hope everybody has a surprisingly delightful day!
I’ll see ya’ later!