Bette and Tina arrived at the Burlington, VT airport on Thursday in the early evening. They’d hired a car and driver to make the hour and half drive to the remote facility estimating their arrival time to be around 9pm. Since they would miss the dinner hour Bette had ordered a red wine & gourmet food basket online and arranged for it to be delivered to the Limo Company so she and Tina would have something to snack on during the drive.

She’d selected the Ravenswood’s Cabernet with gourmet accompaniments from GourmetGiftBaskets.com website. The basket included Cabernet wine biscuits; Hickory & Maple smoked cheese, a delicious summer sausage, tomato bruschetta, and olive oil & sea salt crackers. The car service provided plates, cutlery, linens and wine glasses. They’d also stocked a small cooler with water, soft drinks, and a fruit salad.

Bette and Tina enjoyed the spread and drank the wine in the spacious dimly lit interior of the town car while soft classical jazz played through the exterior speakers at a volume that didn’t interfere with their conversation.

All the windows were tinted including the privacy one that was raised between them and the driver. It was a wonderfully satisfying way to end their day and a great way to start their new journey back to one another. Once they were satiated with good food and wine they relaxed into the comfortable leather seating and talked.

They talked about Roberta Collier’s sudden appearance after months of no communication and hoped that although she’d been snippy perhaps her coming to see them was a good sign that they were finally moving forward with the adoption process. Either way Bette and Tina decided that they would call their lawyer Joyce Wischnia to let her know of the recent occurrence and Roberta’s attempt to dissuade Tina from going through with the adoption.

On a lighter note they talked about how much they’d enjoyed their time with the family at the recording studio earlier that day. They called Kit from the car and she put the phone to Angie’s ear so they could tell her goodnight and that they loved her. They both smiled at Angie’s babbling reply and shared the thought that soon their little baby girl would be forming coherent words and taking her first steps. Kit told them how well the recordings went and they told her how proud they were of her for living one of her dreams to make a comeback in the music business. Even if she only had moderate success it was still a huge accomplishment for her considering where she had to come back from.