"As you can probably already tell, this is the lobby," Eloise showed the main room of the hotel which was often the first stop for many others. "You've already met Mr. Salamone and Miss Thompson," she then pointed over to the door where the doorman was as he smiled and waved to them. "Hi, Charlie!"
"Good day, Eloise." the doorman smiled to her.
Callie gave a smile and a wave.
Eloise then skipped along as she led Callie through the hotel and took her into the kitchen. "Bonsoir, everyone!"
The cooks nodded and greeted Eloise as they went to work.
"This is where you can have whatever you want to eat," Eloise told Callie. "Whether while in the fancy restaurant, or for room service, I call every morning and they always know it's me."
Callie then could see two telephones, one black one for plain old room service and there was a pink telephone next to it that had the little girl's name on it. "Your own phoneline, very nice." Callie smiled, nodding at the information.
"Oh, yes, it's 'rawther' lovely." Eloise agreed.
Callie smiled. Then she had to ask just to make sure. "You don't live here alone, do you Miss Eloise?" She asked softly.
"Oh, absolutely not," Eloise gently put her hands on her hips. "I live with Nanny on the tippy-top floor with Weenie and Skipperdy!"
"Oh, good." Callie smiled.
"My mother lives in Paris though," Eloise then said with a small smile. "She calls at least once a day or else I'll miss her terribly."
Callie gave a soft smile. "At least she calls you everyday." she said softly.
"She sends the best presents too," Eloise smiled, then took Callie out of the kitchen and saw the elevator coming down and took herself and Callie into it. "Let's go meet Nanny."
The elevator attendant glanced down to Eloise and looked curiously to Callie.
"Sixteen, please, Max." Eloise told him.
The man nodded in silence. Eloise then urged Callie to join her.
"Oh, okay." Callie agreed with a slightly surprised look.
Nanny was making a cup of tea.
"Getting Max to notice me is frustrating sometimes..." Eloise said to Callie once they were riding up the elevator to the sixteenth floor and another guest had come into the elevator with them. "Watch this..." she then looked over up to Max. "Oh, dear, I seem to have dropped my pet arachnid... Don't worry, he won't bite... At least... I think so..."
The guest looked slightly disturbed.
"I think he's poisonous... I can't really remember... What was that word that Nanny told me those bites were?" Eloise continued as she knelt on the floor. "Oh, yeah... Contagious.."
The elevator opened up and the guest ran out, screaming for dear life while Max looked stoic and silent as always. Callie bit her lip trying not to laugh. She couldn't help it but it was funny. Eloise smiled to Callie, but pouted to Max as the elevator door closed and they continued to go up until they made it to the very top floor of the hotel.
Callie smiled, admiring the decor. She let Eloise out first once they arrived and then allowed the girl to lead on. Eloise did a somersault on the floor once she got out and then skipped along as she was going to the room she lived in and rang the doorbell over and over again until she would get an answer from her caretaker. Callie looked a little nervous, but if they lived there; it wouldn't hurt to get to know them as she would soon be helping provide the best service she could to them.
Nanny rolled her eyes fondly but went to answer the door. "You rang?" She asked, smiling.
"Hi, Nanny, I'm back," Eloise hugged the older woman, then looked over to Callie. "This is Nanny, she's British and she says everything three times."
Callie gave a small wave. "Hi, I'm Callie Summers." she smiled.
"Hello Callie, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Plaza." Nanny told the younger woman.
"She's gonna start working her, I'm showing her around." Eloise told her nanny.
Callie nodded. "Yes ma'am." she smiled.
"That's a very nice thing to do Eloise, and I hope you have a great time working here." Nanny smiled.
Eloise smiled that she did something nice. A dog seemed to come by Nanny's leg and smiled up to Eloise and panted up at her.
"Hi, Weenie!" Eloise knelt down and hugged her dog, then looked to Callie again. "This is Weenie, he's a dog that looks like a cat."
Callie looked at the dog, she nodded. Pugs kind of did. Weenie looked curiously to Callie.
"This is Callie, she's perfectly lovely." Eloise told her pet.
Callie crouched down. "Hello, Weenie." she smiled, holding out a hand. She knew that you had to let the dog get the scent and let them come to you.
Weenie sniffed her hand and seemed to lick it. Callie smiled and pet him. Weenie seemed to enjoy Callie now.
"Wanna meet my other pet?" Eloise offered.
Callie giggled a little. "Sure." she agreed.
Eloise then went off to one room, she then came back with a turtle in her hands. "This is Skipperdy!"
"Oh, is he a ninja turtle?" Callie grinned.
"Ninja turtle?" Eloise giggled. "No pizza for him, he only eats raisins and likes to wear sneakers."
Callie gave a pretend sigh. "Oh well, he's still a great looking turtle." she smiled.
The turtle merely blinked to Callie.
"He's wonderfully unusual though." Eloise kissed her turtle's shell before setting him back down on the floor so he could walk around.
Callie straightened up and smiled.
"Why don't you continue showing Miss Summers around, but you must come back for lunch, yes, you must, must, must." Nanny smiled.
"11:45 sharp, right, Nanny?" Eloise replied.
"Right." Nanny agreed with a nod.
Callie smiled softly to Nanny, the woman was lovely.
"Okay, Nanny, see you then... Bye!" Eloise nodded, she then did a quick twirl which made her skirt fly up briefly, but it came back down when she stopped, then walked out the door with Callie to continue her official Plaza Hotel tour.
After a little while longer, Callie seemed to get distracted. She had stopped and her mouth slightly dropped open as Bill one of the room service guys was seen not too far away, pulling a cart out of someone's room.
Eloise told random facts as she told Callie most of what she could and knew the most, then looked back to Callie. "Any questions?" she then asked, then noticed the young woman seemed out of it. "Hello?"
Callie blinked slowly and had a light blush on her cheeks. "Hi..." she breathed.
"Were you pretending without me?" Eloise folded her arms slightly.
Callie blinked again and looked down at her, still with the blush. "No, Miss Eloise." she said, softly.
Eloise had a small sense about Callie, she decided to work on it if she got the chance, but right now, she was going to the emergency exit staircase instead of the elevator for this part of the tour. "Let's get some exercise." she then told her new friend.
"Down the stairs?" Callie asked, an eyebrow raised, though her eyes were full of amusement.
"Yeah, come on!" Eloise smiled with an eager nod as she gently pushed the door open.
Callie chuckled and followed the young girl. Eloise then seemed to whiz down the stairs with ease with Callie following her, when they ended up in front of one door, Eloise opened it and had Callie follow her to show that they were in the laundry room.