Keeping Secrets

Hi, friends.   We have been keeping a secret, though some of you may have guessed - our humans went away on vacation and left us for 10 days!       That is the longest ever since Audrey came, and the first time they went on a vacation together other than short family visits, since Audrey came to live here.  We did fine!   Even though Mommy worried about us a lot.    Our cat sitter was the neighbors' 16 year old son.      He is super super tall - Mom has to look waaaaayyy up to see his face.     Of course he was not as good at the details of caring for us as Mom and Dad are, but he did OK and we are none the worse for wear.  

The humans went tot he Big Island of Hawaii, and with traveling time, were there for 7 1/2 days.   They had a good time.  They did quite a lot of snorkeling, and visited beaches and saw some of the feral kitties who live there.   We will post about that soon.    The last 3 days were spent at the Volcanoes National Park.    They found that part very interesting.     On their last day they were there for the official release of the Volcanoes National Park quarter.    It is part of the America the Beautiful series on the National Parks.      Mom copied this picture from eBay:

They had a cool ceremony with dignitaries, hula dancers, musicians and everything there (in the rain!), and Mom and Dad were able to get some of the new coins to save.   That was the only rain they had on their vacation, of course!  

Mom is going to go and take us out on the deck now, because we have missed being able to go out there.   She will add a picture or two of us later.

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Here we are, checking out how well the catnip plant and the other plants have grown:

Our cat sitter also took care of watering the plants and putting out nectar for the hummingbirds, and he did a good job with the plants.   We think the hummers may have migrated south now.  We hope they missed Isaac!