Kitty!!!

As you read in my previous post, I went 44 days without my kitty.  That . . . was . . . terrible.  Jesus only went 40 days without food.  I had hoped to have her flown up so that we could pick her up in Anchorage on our way from Missouri.  Shipping pets in the summer is easier said than done, though, so we weren't able to make that happen.  I just had to suffer through eternity without her.

Selfies in the hotel!  Can you tell I'm happy?

Getting her became an adventure in itself.  I tried to pack as light as possible because I would have the cat in a carry bag and the carrier she was shipped in to bring back with me.  I managed to get everything in my little Snoopy backpack except for the litter box and my little bag of kitty litter for the hotel.  Needless to say I had a few strange looks on my flight from Kenai to Anchorage.  I had about 5 hours to kill in the airport between my flight and her arrival.  Most of that time I spent working on more duckies and getting more strange looks as I carried around my kitty litter box and my Snoopy backpack.

After getting lost with the cab driver looking for the cargo facility, I had to explain that I had just taken my driver's test so I didn't actually have a valid ID with my address.  When I started pulling out my paperwork, they decided they were satisfied with my identification as it was.  We then went to the hotel to get settled in for the night, but Sunny was too stressed from the trip and I was too worried she wouldn't use the litter box to get much rest.  We might have been tempted to sleep on the plane but our flights were bumpy enough to keep us wide awake all the way home.  I spent a lot of time saying "Jesus, keep me safe." and I'm sure Sunny spent a lot of time thinking, "Mommy, I hate you."  All was forgiven as soon as we got home, though.  I don't know if she actually remembers being here before or not, but it was definitely familiar because she settled in almost immediately.  By the next day she was expecting salmon on demand and she has again resumed the never ending battle with her tail.  She is home.