En route to Akron

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Survival of the Cats

We wanted to hit the road around 9 a.m. We ended up hitting the road around noon. The road didn't care either way. Our cats (and personal heroes) Cedar and Cambridge, were safe and secure in the cage behind the driver seat of our borrowed minivan.

We're proud to say they survived the entire 11-hour drive from Cambridge, MA to Akron, OH, drug free and proud. We were all ready to dope them up with either Benadryl or some hippie herbal pills we got from the pet store, but aside from the usual meows and one point where Cambridge go

t out of the cage, stepped on the power window button and almost used up one of his nine lives, they were fine.

When we got to Akron, we found my sister and her kids (Ryan, Amanda, and Kyle) were in town from Buffalo. Kyle may be one of the funniest human beings on the planet.

Exhibit A:

Kyle: "Hey, Boston!"

Jenny: "Did you just call me Boston?"

Kyle: "Well, you're from Boston, aren't you?"

Anyway, it took awhile for the kids to realize that cats don't exactly roll over and pla

y fetch like dogs do. But the cats eventually got settled in my parents' basement - aka their new vacation home; thanks mom and dad - and we slept down there with them in hopes of calming them down after all the hustle of the road.

Tomorrow we head to our new home: Newport, Kentucky.

JN