A/N: OMG…thank you for all those reviews on the first chapter…OH WAIT!…That was in my imaginary world were people other than my older sister actually read my stories…MY BAD!

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The weeks following the ordeal at Sam's house, things were tense around our friends.

Pippin wouldn't let people touch him.

Frodo would burst into tears at random moments.

Sam wouldn't let Frodo walk behind him.

And Gandalf had reverted to his "special blend" of pipe-weed and could be often found talking to inanaimate objects.

The invitations had been sent out for the wedding so now they decided it was time to pick out some flowers!

(Oi! This can't end well)

So they made there way down to the Hobbiton Flower Nursery.

(Is there such a place, you ask? Why yes, there is now)

The whole time they were there, the manager kept giving then this awful look. Sam couldn't figure out why he didn't like them. Maybe it had something to do with…………..

"Pippin! Take that out of your mouth!!"



After an eternity of "that's too tacky" and "that's too pink" and "can I eat THAT!," Sam finally settled on an arrangement of roses and tulips. He had just stepped up to the cash register (do they have cash registers,you ask? Why yes, they do now) when he heard someone yell from the very back of the store.

"You can't keep me in this plastic prison forever!!!"

"What was that?" Asked Frodo,"And where's Gandalf?"



At the back of the store, they were not surprised to see Pippin hiding under a table while Gandalf waved his staff menacingly at a palm tree that he was calling "Charles."

"I WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO ESCAPE!!!"

BOOM!



About three hours later, after the fire in the nursery had been put out, the police had taken everyones statement, and Frodo assured the witnesses that Gandalf was just a little "strung-erm-stressed out", they all went home, but even then, alas, they found no peace!

They had been at Bag-end no more than 5 minutes when there was a horrible rucus outside the front door.

There, parked in front of the house, was a bright pink VW micro-bus with the words "The Tiki Shack" painted on the side.

Out of the front seat jumped Gimli. If Sam ,Frodo and Pippin (Gandalf had passed out on the couch muttering about how carpet-mites would eat them in the night, he obviously didn't notice that Frodo had pergo too,only in better condition than Sam's, because he hadn't made any surprising annoncements in his house latly and…..I just did a unnessesarily long parainthesis, dear me!) hadn't been so shocked they would have known to ask how Gimli's stubby dwarf legs could have reached the pedels.

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OOOOO! A cliffhanger of sorts. Why and how did Gimli arrive in a 1970's vehicle? Oh yea...I'll give you my everlasting love if you tell me who Charles is. (as if it's not too obvious?)