It's clear that Dawn is excited to return to Beautiful Italy. And why shouldn't she be? It's been almost six years since she was there last (how old was she then)? True, the entire trip was terrible, and she was almost killed when her cruise ship sank, but this time will be different for sure. And I am even more excited for this trip than Dawn because in Beautiful Italy, this happens.
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Gosh, I'm worried about Wilbur. Yesterday he was morphing into some sort of green-tentacled monster and today he has no eyes in p. 1. Could it be a side effect of Mary's Muffins?
Is Beautiful Italy a separate place from Regular Italy? Is it a place with no industrialization, slums, traffic, crime and Silvio Berlusconi? Maybe it’s Movie Italy or Instagram with Filters Italy.
The Westons must be loaded if Dawn can bale on Beautiful Italy and fly back to Santa Royale at the drop of a hat. Is Wilbur financing these three months? Did Dawn charge everything to dad’s credit card (the one with Fabiana’s ring?)? And who’s driving Dawn to the airport - Uber?
I can hardly wait to see Harlan and Dawn practicing yoga on a gondola in Venice.
Are these villas that she and Harlan & company will be staying at, or just random homes that they barge into for a look-see? Woo-hoo indeed.
Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
"Italy: Two Views".
Problems, come home!
Drag! Museums, cathedrals, gardens,
Villas, Italy! Woo hoo!
Studying, learning! That!
Thanks, Nance. I was looking forward to today's haiku.
Good advice to Wilbur, Wanders.
Five days running now, and the word "muffins" not mentioned even once. I'm thinking that maybe Wilbur bought all of Mary's remaining muffins at the church bazaar when everything went to half price. He can't wait for Dawn to leave.
I was certain that nothing could be worse than "Tee-hee!" but now we have "Woo-hoo!" and I'm rethinking everything.
Wanders, thank you for the trip down memory lane- what a panel that was!
Where is everyone?
SATURDAY'S SUBTEXT:
When Wilbur says, "I can tell you VALUE Harlan as a friend. And Dawn, sometimes ... friendship is ENOUGH," he really means:
"No sex on this Italy trip for you, young lady!"
Or maybe he means:
"I wish I had thought of Fabiana as my 'friend' instead of 'mi amor' so I could really afford to send Dawn to Italy. Now I'll be paying off that emerald ring for the rest of my life and then some!"
Sunday
DWET's Evil Twin, maybe everyone has been practicing parkour or yoga, or spelunking, or countless other things. Or, they are all bored beyond tolerance with the Westons. I sure am.
Did today's quote from Jimi Hendrix inspire June and the colorist to hit the purple? Eeesh. In the last panel, Dawn must be standing on a curb because she's suddenly taller than dear old dad.
If Wilbur's planning on immersing himself in work, he can interview Mary for his survivor stories. Of course, Mary will not mention Ted Miller. Instead, shell talk about the catastrophe when she confused baking powder with baking soda in her muffins. Oh, the humanity!
Like KitKat, I was struck by all the shades of purple in the Sunday Summary. Perhaps the quotation should have been from Prince rather than Jimi Hendrix.
I'm glad you're back!
I can't wait for tomorrow! Will we stay with Wilbur in Santa Royale or jet off to Italy with Dawn Weston? Or will we be at a pool party in Charterstone, eating chicken salad appetizers and introducing ourselves to the latest schmuck ... er, sucker ... er new resident at Charterstone? I'm waiting with bated breath!
(In other news, I just read a few strips from the Saunders era, and they were MUCH more interesting than the "plots" Moy has been dishing up lately. Although the Bosta Bombordia "plot" from the Westons' last Italy trip was pretty fantabulous.)
Wanders, when you said the cruise disaster was six years ago, I thought it had to be a typo. Sure enough, that story was in 2012 - and I saw one of my comments in the blog. Goodness, I've been a Mary Worth reader for a very long time. Time sure does fly (or crawl) when you're having muffins of fun.
I've been away for a week and just caught up on Dawn and Wilbur's long, long drive to the airport. Some thoughts about Wilbur, father of the year:
* He goes trekking around the world and -- now -- worries that his daughter is growing up too fast?
* He's just now wondering about her relationship with Harlan? And then leaves it up to Dawn to maturely handle the situation? Does he know his own daughter At All?
* He doesn't mention that Dawn almost had a new, hoochie-koochie, hot Latina stepmom?
* He's going to be very busy at work. What does he do exactly that's so time consuming?
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