An Amazing Summer! Part 3

Hi Everyone! Time for Part 3!
Our next adventure, after Churchill, took place in The Big Apple! Yes indeed, New York City was next in the long line of experiences of the summer. The reason behind traveling to the The City that Never Sleeps, was to meet a literary agent. I had been looking for one for a while to help with Isobel's story and also future stories, including possible Ruby stories (but no spoilers will be given out here!). Mr. Nicholson and I had been in contact for a while, but I didn't get a chance to meet him face to face until New York. We met at his office. All of the walls were covered in bookshelves! We went downstairs from his office to have tea and talk about book ideas and how we could work together. He is such a wonderful character! Before I left his office he gave me a big hug. I have this way of telling what a person is like, the way I described it when I was little is that I either have a good or bad belly feeling about somebody. I definitely had a marvelous belly feeling about Mr. Nicholson. I hired him this summer and I can't wait to start working with him! Also while in New York I got to finally see the statue of Balto, a heroic and amazing sled dog who saved the town of Nome Alaska from a devastating diphtheria outbreak in the winter of 1925. He did so by relaying antitoxin 600 miles from Nenanna to Nome during one of the most severe blizzards in Alaska's history. I love his story. If you look at pictures of what he actually looked like, you'll find that he wasn't a big dog and definitely did not fit the bill of one of those iconic Siberian Huskies. He really was a mutt. I had dreamed of seeing him for so long and one of the best things is that the kids in Central Park love him so much! There are constantly children climbing on him, hugging him, or talking to him. It's a good thing to see.