Butter incident threatens US & Chinese relations

John was under the weather tonight, so Gabby, Junie, and I went down to the restaurant in the hotel to eat dinner. Things went pretty well. Gabby and I were both able to find something we liked. We discovered that a milk shake was probably literally shaken milk. I ordered a chocolate one. It tasted and was the consistency of chocolate milk with a layer of foam a couple inches of thick foam on the top. It worked for me.

June slept through most of dinner. When she woke up, she grabbed for everything on the table. I let her play with one of the little individual butters. As we were leaving the restaurant, I realized that June still had the butter pat in her hand. Both Gabby and I laughed and forgot about it until we both heard a popping sound and I felt something under my foot. June had dropped the butter and I had managed to step on it. It made an amazingly loud pop and squirted out onto the marble floor in the hotel lobby.

I said, "Gabby, quick get something!" She started laughing and said, "Get what?" I said, "I don't know" and started laughing too. By that time, we had a couple of onlookers including one of the hotel staff. Not having the diaper bag with me or even a tissue in my pocket I wasn't sure what to do. So, with June strapped to my belly, I bent down to the floor and started scooping up the butter with my fingers. The more I scooped the harder both Gabby and I laughed. Within seconds, I had all of the butter off the floor and spread over all of my fingers.

On the way to the elevator, I discarded the butter container and most of the butter into the nearest trash can. Still having very buttery fingers, I pointed to my purse and told Gabby to get the key card for the elevator and room. The other people must have thought we were crazy because I was standing there with my hands in the air, far away from June's reach, and Gabby and I were both laughing as she reached between the other passengers to punch in our floor number.

We giggled all the way to the room. What a fun experience.