When we walked into the pet-hotel-ish place to pick up our animals today, I noticed my cat Tala was up in the top of the tree house. My 3 pets are spoiled rotten but it allows me to be on vacation stress free. They all 3 get to stay together in a large 12x12 room. It has big windows and a fish tank in the wall, two cat tree's and places for the dogs to sleep. I also have noticed they get way more attention from the staff when they stay in this particular room because it's near the front desk, but behind 2 closed doors in the "cat" section. Well my cat never ever sits up in that tree. She spends most of our vacations hiding in her carrying case in that large room with the dogs. My cat is a complete chicken and a recluse.

So there she was up in the tree, I asked "is that tala up there??", then the girl told me how shocked they all where because this time (and we have been leaving tala and toby there for nearly 3 years now at-least 3 times a year) Tala actually stayed out most of the time. She walked around and looked at things and had a grand old time. So i went in to see her and she crawled out of the cat tree, stretching and yawning and she recognized me right away and rubbed on my hand. Who was this cat?? This couldn't possibly be my Tala. Then I picked her up and the claws came out so I knew it was indeed my pissy little kitty (who we love, but she's weird!). So right now as I am typing this she is curled up next to me on the bed in a pillow, cleaning herself. I have had this cat for at-least 5 years and she never ever sits in the bed with anyone. So. Weird. I always had guessed she was abused before we got her, but I never could say for sure. She seems so content, and I can not help but wonder what in the WORLD has made her act this way, and will it last??

We are pretty much exhausted, and I think we might both be sick. Probably from too much travel and stress (the husbands work has been really crazy amongst all this travel) and we both are looking forward to OUR bed tonight! We had a wonderful weekend spending time with family and friends, and now we are ready to be home with our animals and our computers.

Sadly in our adventures we lost my brand new camcorder. We are both pretty bummed about it and I can't bring myself to buy another one right now. Maybe Delta will find it and send it to me, but I highly doubt it. It was left on the plane in the overhead bin. I called right away but they have a horrific system for dealing with that stuff, my first real disappointment with Delta.

I was too tired to knit most of the trip, but I did start this at the airport on the way home.