Mickey and I love Manhattan, but traveling to faraway places is exciting, too. Tonight is super special because we are flying to Venice, Italy—Venezia—for the first time to visit my great aunt Dorothy Pomander, who is a writer. (That is what I want to be when I grow up.) D. P. is my very favorite person in the whole wide world. D. P. hasn’t seen me in a while, so my mother gave me a red beret to wear, so I would be easy for her to spot. Mickey is wearing asilver tag on his collar with “Mickey, The Antwerp, Manhattan, New York” engraved on it. Dorothy has a marmalade cat named Pip. Plane to Venice, Italy, Seats 21 A+B, 8:10 p.m. (New York time) (Boeing 763, 2-engine, wide-bodied plane, wingspan 156 ft. and 1 inch, seating capacity 229.) It’s going to take us eight and a half hours to get there! But they have great things like peanuts and headphones and even flight attendants with press-on nails. Plane to Venice, Italy, 7:00 a.m. (Venice time) We’re about to land at Marco Polo Airport.
