Flat Matthew visits the dragons

My (Michael's) family is originally from Wales, if you go back to about the twelfth century, but I also have some Cherokee blood from my father's grandmother. I am proud of both those parts of my heritage, and I have managed to combine them. The Welsh flag has a red dragon on it, as you can see in the picture, so some time ago I started collecting dragons. Since my room has over a dozen dragons, I decided that my Native American name would be Sleeps with Dragons. (You may have heard of a movie called Dances with Wolves.) The name combines the two elements of my ancestry.

This morning, Flat Matthew slipped under the door into my room because he wanted to see the dragons. I introduced him to all of them, including the two Asian dragons that look like snakes and don't have wings. There are several red dragons, of course, a couple of multicolored ones that are kept in cages, a wizard dragon, a gold dragon and the dragon who was in the movie Shrek.

Some of the dragons agreed to have their picture taken with Flat Matthew, and here it is.

Flat Matthew enjoyed meeting the dragons, but he said he did not think that was much of an adventure. He also noticed that all the dragons (except the Asian ones) had wings, but they just sat around on the ground. So I pointed overhead to the one red dragon that was flying in the middle of the room. Flat Matthew thought it would be a real adventure if he could ride on a dragon, but the red dragon does not like to have anyone sit on him. He did agree to pick Flat Matthew up gently in his claws, though, and fly around with him. So I took a picture of that.

And that was Flat Matthew's visit with my dragons.