Hello from the Midwest

We did it! We moved. I write this from the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, home of Graeter’s ice cream and the best Thai food I’ve had (who knew?)

It was a travel experience not to be envied, I’ll tell you. Our flight from LAX to Atlanta was delayed an hour, which caused us to miss our connecting flight. We were scheduled on a new flight instead, one which left three hours later. Then *that* flight was delayed forty minutes in Atlanta due to bad weather. It was so bumpy that even I got queasy, and poor Osher threw up in his carrier case. I later found out, when opening baggage, that our bags had gotten left outside at some point in the Atlanta storm, as most of our clothes were soaking wet.

We finally landed, rented our car, and drove an hour to our new place. It’s totally empty, but clean, spacious, and has a great yard and ample storage space in the basement. We bought the cats a litterbox, blew up our air mattress, met our landlord, who’s quite nice, and then Jonathan and I went to buy little things for us – adult not-fun things, like sponges and dish soap and a toilet scrubber brush. Tomorrow it's off to Costco to buy food.

Dinner last night was the aforementioned Thai place, and the local ice cream sho for dessert. The DSL people came today, our car supposedly arrives in the afternoon, Jonathan starts work on Monday, and the moving van with our stuff arrives next Friday.

The cats are settling in nicely. A bit freaked at first, they’ve been very cuddly... nothing like two huge moves in two months to make a pet feel insecure and want love. In lieu of living with our little ones, we bought Jan two new baby rats before we left. They're adorable white balls of fluff. Ruthie, she hasn’t even named them yet. :)