The next morning was accompanied by pure white snow. The snow had never let up during the whole night. The Tipton Hotel's roof was completely in snow. The outside world was cold and unyielding but the inside world was warm and safe. By eight am, some of the hotel guests were waking up for Christmas Eve day. Among the hotel guests that woke up at eight, Mr. Moseby and Miss Tutweiller woke up as well. The happy couple took turns taking showers and getting changed and ready for the day. Mr. Moseby thought he would like to spend the morning with Miss Tutweiller before he would have to leave to get her gift with other gifts for his close friends and people that he regarded to be special to him for the rest of the day. Mr. Moseby looked over at Miss Tutweiller as she was adjusting her red sweater.
"Hey, Emma?"
"Yes, Marion?"
"I was wondering if you would to have breakfast with me and then we could take a carriage ride on Tippy or maybe take a stroll through the park."
"Breakfast and a ride on Tippy sounds great."
"Alright. We better get going if don't want to wait in line for a ride on Tippy's carriage."
"Right with you, Marion."
Miss Tutweiller walked up to Mr. Moseby and her right arm through Mr. Moseby's left arm. They walked out their room and headed down on the elevator to the main lobby to go get their continental breakfast. Mr. Moseby and Miss Tutweiller had their breakfast that consisted of yogurt, waffles and fruit and cups of coffee. Right after breakfast, the mature couple walked out of the hotel and approached Tippy's carriage. They got up and took a ride. The ride lasted for an hour but it surely satisfactory as it was nice and slow. When the carriage ride was over, Mr. Moseby helped Miss Tutweiller down from the carriage and then he had made an excuse that he had to leave but he would be back by six at night. Miss Tutweiller agreed to let Mr. Moseby go as she also had to go shopping herself. Emma and Marion both agreed that they had errands to run and that they would meet each other at the hotel by six. The betrothed couple kisses each other on the lips as goodbye and then they went their separate ways.
By the time that Mr. Moseby and Miss Tutweiller's carriage ride was over, Cody was waking up in his bed. He got up with a spring in his step and got ready for the day by collecting his clothes that he was planning to wear for the day and gathered his clothes to bring with him into the bathroom. He knew that in two hours that he would see his Bailey.
Cody took a hot ten minute shower and then got dressed. He adorned a red buttoned up shirt with original color skin tight jeans, green vans and a green sweater. Once he was completely dressed, Cody then proceeded to dry his hair, comb his hair neat, and brush his teeth. The last three tasks in the bathroom caused Cody to take twenty minutes. By the time that Cody came out of the bathroom, ready to tackle the day, he had calculated that between all the simple tasks of his morning routine before he started to make breakfast, Cody figured out that he took a total of forty minutes to get ready. He quietly walked around the living room couch to prevent himself from disturbing his mother. He got out some food to cook for breakfast. The intelligent Martin twin decided upon making pancakes for breakfast. As Cody cooked, the sweet smell of pancakes floated smoothly up into the air and gently hovered over to the couch and found its way to Carey Martin's nose. Carey woke up from the wonderful smell of the pancakes that Cody was cooking. Nothing woke a person better up than the smell of delicious food. Carey got up from the couch that she used as her bed and shuffled over to the kitchenette. She gave her youngest son a tired smile and ruffled his hair a little bit. Cody wanted to fix his hair but knew that he couldn't since he was in the middle of taking care of the pancakes and he couldn't afford to leave the pancakes in the pan while he went back to wash his hands if he fixed his hair. A good cook knows that when handling food that you must not touch your face or hair while cooking food.
"Good morning, Cody."
"Good morning, mom."
"I see you're making pancakes. Do you want me to set the table and get orange juice?"
"Sure, mom. Thanks."
Carey took out some clean dishes and silverware. She walked over to the table and then set the table. Once the table was set, Carey shuffled back to the kitchenette to get out the orange juice. Cody was almost done making the pancakes and brought the pan over and served two pancakes on each one of the three plates and then brought the pan back to kitchenette where he turned off the burner and got out three glasses for the orange juice. He then got syrup and placed it on the table along with the three glasses. Carey and Cody sat down at the table and poured themselves a glass of orange juice. Before Cody dug into the food, he looked over to his mom.
"Mom, should one of us wake up Zack?"
"No. I'm sure he'll wake up in time to have a warm breakfast by the smell of the syrup and pancakes."
"Okay, if you say so, mom."
Cody and Carey began to dig in into the delicious breakfast. Just as Cody and Carey had started eating the pancakes, Zack was waking up from the sweet smell of the maple syrup. He stumbled out of bed and shuffled out of his and Cody's bed room and moved all the way across the floor to the table to join his brother and mother for breakfast. Zack slumped into a vacant chair and began to eat the pancakes. While Carey savored her breakfast while Zack shoveled his down his throat, Cody was just about done with his share of food and brought his dishes over to the sink to wash off. Once his dishes were clean, coy checked his watch and saw on his watch that he had ten minutes left before he would meet Bailey. Cody walked back inside the bathroom to fix his hair and dashed out the suite with a quick goodbye to his brother and mother. Cody quickly walked down the hall and went down the elevator to the lobby. When he got down to the lobby, he saw Bailey walk through the rotating doors. She took in her surroundings and looked around for Cody. The happy couple quickly made eye contact with each other and widely smiled at one another. Cody and Bailey walked towards each other and brought one another into a warm embrace. After the embrace, the two young adults lovingly looked into one another's eyes and simply smiled.
"I missed you so much, Bailey."
"I missed you, too, Cody."
"Come on, I'll help you get a room and then we can spend time together."
Cody helped Bailey get a room by doing a few favors for Esteban. Bailey was assigned to a room that was on the same floor as the Martin's family suite. Cody helped Bailey get situated in her hotel room before they decided to go spend time with each other. Once Bailey was settled into her room, Cody smiled at Bailey.
"So, what do you want to do?"
"I just want to walk around the hotel."
"That sounds perfect. We could try to find Maddie and maybe even Esteban and London as well."
"Maddie's here?"
"Yeah. She arrived last night."
"Maybe we should go back down to the lobby and try to find her."
"It's settled then. Let's go find Maddie, Bailey."
Bailey smiled at Cody and then automatically looped her right arm through his left arm. They happily strolled out of Bailey hotel room and went down to the lobby.
