A Country Affair(106)

“Cruise lines are being extra cautious now. You could be safer on a boat than you are here at home. Think of it—quaint German villages, beautiful scenery, sister adventures. Shopping.”

The magic word.

“It’s all paid for.”

More magic words.

“I don’t want to go by myself,” Sierra confessed. “It’d be too depressing.”

“That would be hard. You’d look like the loser of the high seas.”

“We won’t be at sea. We’ll be on a river.”

“Oh, yeah. Right.”

“It really does look like fun and I know we’d have a good time. So what do you say?”

“Um.”

“Come on. The only time you’ve used your passport was when we did that family trip to Canada. Don’t you want another stamp in it?”

Actually, she did. And a weeklong cruise with her sister would be a fabulous way to start the holidays.

Um finally turned to yes and Sierra ended the call sounding happy instead of miserable. Sophie, too, was feeling a little swell of excitement. She and her sister always had fun together and she was sure they’d both enjoy this trip. Well, as long as neither of them got sick.

She went to Costco to shop for her friend. While she was there she bought a giant bottle of Airborne gummies. And on her way home she stopped and bought pills to prevent seasickness, several bottles of hand sanitizer (even though she already had three in her bathroom cabinet) and a mask to wear on the plane. Okay, let the fun begin.

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