Our 4th of July in SOLITUDE!

So it takes a national holiday for us to get some peace and quiet around here. The humans FINALLY left us for a couple of days so they could go do something called "camping". We aren't exactly sure what that is, but we are pretty sure it involves sitting OUTSIDE in the HOT SUN without the modern convenience of air conditioning. To this we must say - ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY??!?! Even we cats are domesticated and are trained to stay OUT of the 158 degree heat! (ok, so maybe it's not exactly 158 degrees...but why don't you try wearing a fur coat during the summer and see what it feels like to you!) So we lounged around with the house to ourselves all weekend, and we LOVED IT so much that we even decided to have a little "thank you for going away" present waiting for the humans when they returned on Sunday...now who wouldn't LOVE a little puke on the floor and a yarfed up hairball on the sofa?!?! They were very ungrateful.

Anyway, they filled us in on what happened on their trip so we could share it with you. Keep in mind this looks absolutely dreadful to us cats and we are thrilled that they decided to leave us behind on this trip.

The humans went camping with their friends the Kleibers and we hear they stayed in this contraption.

Isn't that fancy?!? OK, so they didn't actually stay in THAT EXACT contraption, but it was parked near the one they stayed in, and they thought it was funny, so they took a pic.

The crew camped at Lake Somerville, but the lake level was ridiculously low (see prior comment about 158 degree heat and add the fact that it hasn't rained in about 76 days or so and that explains the low lake level). So the grown ups had to improvise so the little humans could swim. Looks like the little rascals had quite a time in their tub of water. We would have wanted nothing to do with it.

Do you think it may be time to put junior on a diet when his belly laps over the side of his tray and onto the top of his food??

Besides the camping trip, the humans have been very busy lately, and that's why we haven't updated sooner. Since we have no thumbs, we can't exactly turn on the blog update machine when they aren't here, so we actually DO need them for some things! The man human has been working a lot and trying to keep the grass outside alive when he's home. The lady human has been working during the week and going to College Station on the weekends to work on clinicals for her nursing school . The baby human?? He pretty much just goes where ever the grown up humans take him. But rest assured, he goes there loudly. There's nothing quiet about that kid. He eats loudly, plays loudly, sleeps loudly, talks loudly, and screams REALLY loudly. Some of his recent favorite words and quotes are "BIG truck", "bubbles!", "cookie" (pronounced cockie), "my truck", "a car!", and "whaisit?" (where is it?) We don't mind those words, but we have learned to make ourselves invisible if we hear the word "kiddy" come out of his mouth, because chances are he's headed for one of our tails.

We leave you this time with a video of that kid in action on the camping trip. Enjoy!

Until next time,

Lexi and Sadie