Hello, Valgarde!

Oh my gosh, you guys, last night I had the worst nightmare EVER. I dreamt that Pizmo and I were making love, and then we rolled over, and instead of Pizmo it was Tiggs. I woke up in a cold sweat, but at least I didn't scream this time. That's totally progress, right? My first instinct was to turn on my comms and see if I could get ahold of Pizzy, but of course I didn't, cause HELLO, middle of the ocean = no reception, and besides, it was like 4 in the morning ANYWAYS. And what would I say to him anyways? "Hi, remember that talk we had about the past and how it totally doesn't matter and I'm cool now? Yeah, well, I'm still a little bit crazy." Geez, he totally has a hard enough time figuring me out without throwing PTSD crap into the mix too, gosh. So I totally tried to go through some of the exercises my therapist taught me, and it kinda helped a little bit, but I think I'm going to be using those dreamless sleep potions like every night or something, cause I totally know this won't be the last nightmare I have. Bleh.

So I TOTALLY could not get back to sleep after that, and so I just kinda got dressed and wandered around the ship and stuff. The few sailors that were up were totally giving me weird looks, cause HELLO, who wanders around at 4 in the morning, but what-EVER, what do they know anyways? I totally found out that we had dropped anchor and weren't reallly going anywhere at night. They told me that it was totally because icebergs and stuff sometimes come floating down from Northrend and they're totally hard to see or whatever, and it would be a disaster of titanic proportions if we were to run into one. That totally makes sense! Then I totally started asking them about how to do shippy stuff and they were really nice and stuff. I think they were totally excited to have someone awesome to talk to cause th graveyard shift can totally get boring and stuff. I figured I'd be totally wasted by the time we actually sailed into Valgarde, but whatever, Noodler'll understand and stuff.


So, I totally went back to my cabin as the sun was coming up, and Wynni was totally up already, jumping on the beds and stuff. We had breakfast, played tickle games, etc. until it was like noon? Maybe it was a little afternoon - it's so hard to tell with the winter sun. Anyway! That's when we actually saw Northrend! Huge cliffs and all that. It was pretty nifty. And then they showed us the narrow little passage we had to go through, and I was like, NO WAY, we are SO going to die, and they were all, chill! We had to wait just outside the fjord for a little bit, cause there was totally a ship coming out and it's not like you can pass each other or turn around while you're in there, you know? And geez, those cliffs were totally even taller than the ones in Azshara, seriously.

So, after what seemed like FOREVER, we finally started our journey through the fjord. Oh my gosh, you guys, we were moving so SLOW! I mean, it's not like the big old caravels can move super fast anyways, but I mean, this was even slower than normal. We had guys hanging out both sides of the boat, hollering back and forth about how close the sides of the boat were to the sides of the fjord. And oh my gosh, the WINDS, you guys. We had to put the sails down so we wouldn't get blown someplace dangerous, so they were totally just rowing, and the winds were totally just SCREAMING in our ears. Wynni started crying and holding her ears cause she totally didn't understand what was going on. We bundled up in our cabin and all, and that helped my feeling of impending DOOM and muted the sailing winds, but it was still kind of eerie and all.

FINALLY, after what seemed like FOREVER AGAIN, we felt the boat lurch to a halt and the anchor being dropped and everything. We gathered our crap and hurried up and deck, and there was Valgarde! It was totally an impressive site, too. After that skinny little fjord we passed through, it totally opened up into this frickin' HUGE bay, and there were houses and docks and everything lining the whole thing. Noodler was waiting out in front, which is good, cause I'd totally never find him amidst all the "tallheads" (as Pizzy would say, hee). I gave him a HUGE hug, and he scoooped up Wynni in his arms cause he was so totally pumped to meet her, and she totally freaked out cause OMG stranger.

He told me that he totally didn't live actually IN Valgarde - I guess he didn't jibe very well with the people there or something? I dunno. Instead, he lives up in WESTGARDE, which was totally up on the cliffs and stuff. That, uh, freaked me out just a little bit. Makes me really wish I had remembered my parachute cloak and stuff! So, he got on his ram, and I summoned my fire horse of DOOM to carry us to our final destination, which was still another couple hours away. GEEZ.

When we FINALLY got there, it was a cozy little house that kind of had both human and dwarven architecture. Noodler's wife, Britta, was totally inside cooking dinner for us and everything, cause by that time the sun was TOTALLY going down and man, we were starving and everything! She was TOTALLY cute (well, you know, for a dwarf and stuff). We had seafood gumbo and hot cider to drink. Mmm, it was SO good. I was ready to crash at that point after all the traveling and getting up early; Noodler & Britta told us they'd be fine taking care of Wynni while I went to sleep.