Bailey’s Estes Park Excitement Read Online Free Page B

head, licking hands, faces, and feet.
    â€œBiscuit! Stop!” Kate howled, hiding her face in the covers.
    â€œWe’re too tired. Go away.” Bailey rolled over.
    â€œCome on, girls,” Mr. Chang said. “Time to get up. Some people are meeting us downstairs in an hour.”
    â€œUgghh,” Bailey moaned.
    â€œYou, too, Trina.” Mr. Chang shook his older daughter’s shoulder. “Mr. Perkins is bringing his family to meet us.”
    â€œHow could you do this to me?” Trina wailed, with all the dismay she could muster at seven a.m.
    â€œEasy!” Mr. Chang chuckled. “Watching you writhe around and moan is good early morning entertainment.”
    Trina threw a pillow at her father, which he deftly dodged. When she saw him pick up the pillow and pull his arm back to throw it, she jumped up. The pillow landed with a
whoosh
in her empty bed.
    â€œHa!” Trina laughed. “Missed me!”
    â€œHa, yourself.” Mr. Chang laughed. “I got you up.”
    Bailey and Kate had pillows in hand ready to throw but put them back down when the action wound down so quickly. “Shucks,” Bailey said. “We missed our chance.”
    An hour later, they stepped out of the elevator into the hotel lobby.
    The Perkins family was looking at the old Stanley Steamer car in the lobby when the Changs arrived.
    â€œWill! Great to see you.” Mr. Chang and Will Perkins shook hands.
    â€œGeorge, I’d like you to meet my wife, Janice, and my sons, Joseph and Justin.”
    Bailey inhaled sharply and elbowed Kate. Joseph and Justin were the two boys Biscuit had nearly attacked in the hall the day before. Good thing they’d taken Biscuit for an early morning walk and left him in the room before coming to meet the Perkinses.
    â€œIt’s a pleasure to meet you,” Mr. Chang replied, shaking each of their hands. “This is my wife, Dory, and my two daughters, Trina and Bailey. And this is Bailey’s friend, Kate.”
    Bailey smiled politely.
    â€œHey, aren’t you the ones who had that dog in the hallway yesterday?” Justin asked.
    Mr. Chang cleared his throat. “I guess we are. I’m sorry, I didn’t recognize you. We’re terribly sorry about Biscuit barking at you. He’s a little skittish being in a new place and off his usual routine.”
    â€œNo harm done,” Mr. Perkins assured him.
    Bailey noticed that Justin, the older of the two, was scowling.
What’s his problem?
    Her thoughts were interrupted by a friendly looking older man and his wife approaching them. “There they are!” the man said.
    â€œGrandpa!” Joe ran to the couple, who greeted the boy with warm hugs.
    â€œHungry for some breakfast?” Grandpa asked him.
    â€œStarving!”
    Mr. Perkins introduced his parents, Glen and Clara Perkins, to the Changs.
    â€œThey live here in Estes Park. That’s why I brought the family along,” Mr. Perkins explained.
    â€œWe’re off to have breakfast at the Waffle House,” Grandma Perkins said. “You’re welcome to join us.”
    â€œGeorge and I need to get to our conference,” Mr. Perkins said. “But maybe Dory and the girls would like to.”
    â€œThat would be lovely,” Mrs. Chang said before Bailey could signal that she did not want to eat with these grouchy boys. She turned her back to the group and rolled her eyes at Kate.
    After getting directions to the Waffle House, Mrs. Chang, Trina, Bailey, and Kate piled into the car. “That was nice of them to invite us to join them for breakfast,” Mrs. Chang said.
    â€œNice if you like eating with Oscar the Grouch,” Bailey retorted.
    â€œBailey!” her mother warned.
    Bailey looked down at her lap. “But Mom, those boys are so rude!”
    â€œMaybe they’re not morning people,” Mrs. Chang said.
    â€œApparently they’re not afternoon people either, since they