On Good Friday we headed out to Fort Wayne in my old Subaru (instead of the new truck). The original plan was to stay there until Monday, then to Indy until Wednesday then to mom's and home by Wednesday night. Thursday we were going to start looking for a kitten.
Here is what happened.
About 10 minutes before we arrive at RAW's mom's she comes home to a little gray stripe kitten sitting on her porch. She lets it in.
We get there, Hollace names her Cloudy. She is now our cat. I estimate her to be about 4 months old. She is very mellow and laid back for a kitten and loves to eat. She immediately finds the make shift litter box and based on her condition we realize she has to be an indoor cat. But where did she come from? Did she lose her way or get ditched somewhere? We do let her go a couple times to see if she goes back home but all she does is go back by the shed and sit in the windowsill and wait for us to let her in. I think fate has brought us this kitten a couple days before we go to try and find one.
Saturday night me and RAW try out a different seafood restraurant to celebrate our 12 years of marriage. I have to say we both had one of the best meals out in our lives....so good. I had salmon covered in a dill blue cheese sauce with aspargus roasted with blue cheese. Lots of blue cheese I know. RAW had macadamia nut crusted halibut and red snapper. I wanted that as well but we hate to order the same thing so we can sample each others. I think I liked his better but both were excellant.
On Monday afternoon we headed out to Indy for a day and night at a water park hotel. Because it is a popular spring break week, I spent the big bucks to reserve a room here. When we got there Hollace wanted to go to the regular hotel pool. We then walk over to the water park to see it and Hollace immediately cops an attitude. It is loud and she does not want to go there, only the first pool we seen. RAW is crabby and now so is she. I am starting to get pissed myself. I didn't pay over $200 to just use only the hotel pool.
Lately Hollace has been doing the thing (or eating) the thing she likes the least to get it over with so she agreed to go to the water park pools first to get it over with but she insists she won't be happy.
She gets over the noise and we have a good time. I think I have warped my poor kid over the "be careful" phrase I said many times. She is too careful and won't take a chance. She hates getting her head wet but by the end of the trip she tries to get use to it. We eventually had to spend time at the hotel pool as well but that was ok.
The next day I buy myself a pretty bathing suit to replace the horrid old faded hand me down one in the little shop area off the water park and we hang out there floating down the lazy river or in the hot tub until 1:30. Then we dry off and get dressed and go to the arcade. Hollace made out pretty good there. She only had 114 tickets but when we cashed in the receipt printed out someone elses 123 tickets as well so she was able to get a 200 point prize. Who am I to argue?
Now it is time to find another hotel. We find a blah one by the airport that will do. It has a pool and Hollace is anxious to go there. I am all pooled out so I don't suit up but just sit there in a chair. I guess this pool is too cold for Hollace so she sits in the hot tub which is only luke warm. We don't stay long. It is hard to top that last hotel.
Me and Hollace stay up late going through all my No Doubt songs finding songs I didn't burn on the first CD so I can burn a second CD for Hollace who apparently loves No Doubt.
The next day, Wednesday, our plan was to go to the Children's museum but because the weather is perfect (mid 70s, sunny) we decided to go to the zoo instead. Both me and RAW are all walked out and old feeling at the end of 4 hours. We then get in the car once we found it and head back to Fort Wayne (2 hour drive) for the night then head out the next morning with the new kitten to my mom's house.
Cloudy survives the nearly 3 hour drive and makes herself at home at mom's. She doesn't like the cats in residents there, Millie and Marshmellow. Aunts Bobbie and Jean both stop by to see the new kitty.
The original plan there was to leave by 4pm so we could get home in plenty time for RAW to go to a school board election meeting at 7:30 but around that time we notice a car parked in the field behind the house and four guys get out with what looks like rifles.
My parent's don't want to call the police or anything. They let RAW do it. My dad stands out there in a red sweat shirt just waiting like a target. Finally the cops come, 4 of them with shotguns go out to look for the guys. On the news there while we are waiting, is a story about how a 5 year old girl wakes up to gun shots, calls 911 when she discovers her parent have been fatal shot. It was apparantly a mistaken identity. Some drug deals thought they ratted them out to the police. Now I am worried that these 4 guys might want revenge on my parents since we called the police. We wait more. We can't leave now, got to see how this plays out.
Eventually they find the 4 guys and we find out the dudes had BB guns for BB gun fights.
Now it is time to try and find Cloudy. She is nowhere to be seen. Finally I turn on the stairway light and see her sleeping on the top stair on a towel.
It is now 6:30, we finally leave. On the way home we had to stop at the airport to pick up Cindy's van. They are in Arizona and doesn't want to pay (understandably) parking there for the week and a half they are gone.
We get home at 8:30 with 18 messages on the phone. The first 6 are from Haley then the rest was school board people.
Cloudy is adjusting fine here. Today me and Hollace went shopping for kitty supplies.
Tonight we renting The Incredibles. Hollace has been reluctant to see it sure it was going to scare her. She decided she will try and tough it out tonight. Well it turns out it is the best movie she has ever scene. Goofy kid