Oh, boy, mama and papa came back yesterday (after leaving me ALONE all day long) from a little trip they have wanted to try out for months: the French fast train, the TGV, now goes from Perpignan to Barcelona in about an hour and a half–no muss, no fuss. Mama, who can never get enough of trains, says that on a train, you can daydream, look at scenery (Mama thinks the Roman via Domitia goes into Spain and the train goes alongside it but she’s still researching that…), read on your IPad, sketch, take a nap, or do nothing, whatever you wish. Then, on this one, you arrive before noon in Barcelona, take a (reasonably priced) cab to (in this case) your dentist, have your teeth cleaned and polished in their twice-a-year ritual with a guy who is not only a great dentist but also knows all the good places to eat in Barsa, wander down the street to a favourite little restaurant and have wine with lunch (no worries about driving!), hop in a cab to the station, hop on the train again and be back by 6:00 in the evening.
I think this may be a turning point for our lives together. If these guys go gallivanting off to far away cities and leave me home all day long with that weird music they find on the TV (opera, piano concerti, orchestral symphonies–I change it to Rock and Roll or Oldies But Goodies the minute they walk out the door) to make me feel that someone is home with me, then we had better look over our Terms of Endearment.
Not that my plans change much whether they’re here or not…
PLAN ONE:
PLAN TWO:
PLAN THREE:
That’s a pretty good plan you have Loulou. But we hope your humans don’t leave you too often.
Oh, I make it sound much worse than it is. They leave me for a few hours sometimes….
I go with them on the long hauls!!! Mama puts Spot On between my ears and I’m happy as a cat..er..clam.
Mommy loved the European trains! We have some metro trains here but mommy hasn’t been on them. She wishes they would go to other cities (besides St. Paul and some surrounding suburbs).
What a lovely way to go to the dentist!
Well, it was lovely for THEM!! I’d be fine on a train, I’m sure, so maybe next time, they’ll take me…my teeth could use a once-over.
Submitted on 2015/01/22 at 10:56 pm | In reply to Quinn, Carol and Catitude.
Well, it was lovely for THEM!! I’d be fine on a train, I’m sure, so maybe next time, they’ll take me…my teeth could use a once-over.
Bonjour Loulou! My parents do the same thing when they leave for the day. The big decision for them is which radio station to leave on for me. Both are NPR stations but one plays jazz and the other plays classical music after the morning news. I think it just makes them feel better because my plans are just like yours…..sleep, dream, sleep, dream, go finish my breakfast, sleep, dream, have a drink from my water fountain.When they return home, I get brushed in an oh so gentle and loving way. Sometime, my mum tells me that she wants to be reincarnated as a cat but I warn her that she needs to be discriminating about whom she choses for her anthro parents! Aren’t we both lucky kitties???
Hey, if our mama’s were reincarnated as kitties, maybe they’d be kitty-friends forever and ever! As it is, I think they already are….
That is a wonderful idea but they will need to make sure that they live in the same village as we felines don’t love plane & boat travel! Happy dreaming my friend!
I think I would like a train. If it goes STRAIGHT. Wiggles make me throw up!
Good idea, Loulou. Always have a backup plan. You have two. You’re all set.
I knew I’d get good advice from you seven, or it is eight? Maybe nine? Then there’s Jan, too….