We visited the local animal shelter when we were on Orcas Island a few weekends ago, and the girls lucked out because the shelter happen to have four 7-week old kittens there. The girls were besides themselves with joy playing with them. Nora fell in love with one in them in particular and had a hysterical meltdown later that evening after we left because we couldn't adopt the kitty (we never said we would). She insisted that she bonded with the kitty and truth be told, the kittens were mega adorable and one of the kitties did really like to snuggle up with Nora. If you're looking for a kitten, there's a few on Orcas that are looking for a good home and we can attest to the fact that they were very friendly and cuddly!
We got back from Japan about a week ago and we're still talking about what a great trip it was! Japan has never been super high on my places to visit but for a lot of reasons (I've never been, it's clean, it's safe, it's different) we took the plunge and booked it as our summer vacation this year. It helped that our friends, the Wongs, went last year, raved about it and loved it so much they were going again and we were able to coordinate so that some of our trip overlapped with theirs. It helped even more that the yen is at a 10-year low (maybe all time low?) against the dollar, which, aside from airfare, made everything quite affordable. Look how low the yen is! We lucked out that it kept falling after we booked our tix in Dec. Since this was our first big overseas trip since COVID and with kids (or, lets face it, SINCE kids), I dove into prepping for our trip - including trying to keep up my Duolingo streak of learning Japanese for at least a few minutes everyd
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