Finally home

Grueling journey back. As if it's not a long enough trip without being stranded in Chicago for an extra seven hours due to United suddenly canceling that leg of my flight...

I always have to do the recap just to show you all how utterly miserable I was:

1 hr. taxi to airport in Hyderabad

3 hrs. wait in airport (flight delayed)

9.5 hrs. flight to Frankfurt

2 hrs. wait in Frankfurt

8.5 hrs. flight to Chicago

7 hrs. wait in Chicago airport

2 hrs. flight to Denver

2 hrs. wait for bus (bus delayed)

1 hr. bus to Boulder

15 min. car ride to house

I'm so glad to be home again and with all the animolecules.

Here are some random images from India (random as in, I don't know any of these people).

(Above) This is a very unusual sight for India. The only thing I can think is that perhaps it is his sister. Couples do not hold hands in public there. However--and very strangely to my American eyes--pairs of male friends frequently do.

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Hide-and-seek around Jazz's dog ramp...

I often wonder how it changes their play, the fact that Rumi is deaf. I wonder if Gadjo realizes Rumi is playing strangely, that he isn't observing whatever the normal cat play rules are. E.g., during hide-and-seek, Rumi can't hear sounds that are hints as to where Gadjo ran to, or where he is. I wonder if Gadjo thinks Rumi is a little bit dim?

But it doesn't seem to matter--these two are best buddies, and play for hours every day.

I brought Gadjo to the vet today for his second round of vaccinations. He is absolutely enormous for his age. He is close to half of Rumi's weight already. The vet thinks Gadjo will end up at 12 - 15 lbs. He's very leggy and has really big paws for his size. His nose is getting even longer and pointier, too--his face, from the top, looks exactly like a mouse. Cute and funny-looking at the same time. (These photos are from the first few days we had him. His snout is more elongated now.)

The vet tech "stole" Gadjo and brought him to the back rooms to show him off to all the other workers, and I heard a lot of feminine-voiced awwwwww!s coming from back there. He was covered in several different layers of perfume when I got him back.

It's those blue eyes of his. He bewitches the females. Even human females.

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