Wednesday, December 12, 2012 – Cocoa (but going home tomorrow!):

            Don’t know if you all listened to the news item yesterday that NASA had launched a classified rocket, but Bob and I were puttering around the boat in the afternoon yesterday and all of a sudden this roaring sound brought us to attention.  We both looked at each other and agreed that it sounded like something being launched across the river, maybe something like a rocket (if we knew what a rocket actually sounded like).  We kept scanning the sky, but it was overcast and we couldn’t make anything out that was headed to the heavens.  So as we listened to the news last night, sure enough they said that a rocket had been launched, and this morning, Ken, the Marina Manager, confirmed our curiosity, and he also told us that if the weather is clear, launches can usually be seen from the marina.  Unfortunately, we have had overcast weather for a couple of days now.  It made us realize that an actual space launch would have been a spectacular, memorable sight.  And I will say again, that I think it’s a shame that we don’t have the space program anymore.

            Well, this morning I was able to print our boarding passes without a hitch.  The little printer spit them out pronto with just one click!  It didn’t even think about arguing with me!

            So we are all packed and ready to go.  Poor kitty knows something is definitely up, and she knows whatever it is, she isn’t going to like it.  The minute she saw a duffle bag come out, she took off and hid in her little “mouse house”, and she didn’t really want to come out for lunch, but her Pavlovian brain took over the minute she heard Bob and I having lunch; immediately after she ate a couple of bites, she headed at breakneck speed for our cabin and hid under the covers for the rest of the day.  Maybe she’ll forget by tomorrow morning that anything is up, and

I’ll be able to give her that little pill that is supposed to make her not realize we are putting her in the cat carrier, into a taxi, through check-in and security at an airport, and on an airplane for a two hour ride and then in a car with a four-year old.  I wonder if she’ll ever recover.  I always told her she was going to be an “adventure cat”.

            I will probably write one more blog when we get home, because I just know you all want to know how kitty-cat’s airplane adventure went, but, then, seriously, no one wants to read about our month at home!! I want to thank everyone who sent me comments both encouraging and threatening (ha ha!), and I will start the blog up again as we continue on our journey on January 15 down the coast of Florida and maybe to the keys, or the west coast – we still haven’t decided!

            Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, or whatever holiday you happen to celebrate – and we hope everyone has a wonderful year ahead of them.   Thanks again for reading!