I am finally doing an update post about the crazy month I have had. Firstly lets start with going home to Adelaide to pick up my second favourite girl. Maple. Who as I write this, is yelling at me because I am not paying attention to her. As my friends know, I flew back home to Adelaide to collect my little ball of anger, stopping overly only for 6 days. I also got to greatly surprise my two best friends who I had not told I was coming back, with one responding “what the fuck” and the other responding “what are you doing here”. I shout out to Adriana for helping plan and surprise the besties.
My flights home were easy and quick, although I am still upset that I was AGAIN deprived of the magnificence of Terminal 4 of Singapore airport (I will see it one day!) as I only had a 3 hour stop over and apparently that wasn’t enough time….which I still doubt. I finally made it home to this little potato. To which I might add, completely ignored me when I arrived at our friends house who had been so fantastic in taking care of my baby.
I got to have a little enjoyment while also fretting about the last of the paperwork I needed to do so i could ship my very reluctant cat half way across the world. (She is now just super angry in our new place instead of being super angry in Australia).
This trip also involved me going to Brisbane for 3 days due to having the need for Maple to be checked off and seen to not be forthing at the mouth with rabies. Instead she just has a bit of a drooling problem (not sure why, she just likes to make things a little more wet and awkward i guess). I spent 2 days hanging out in the hotel room and sneaking in a very excellent viewing of The Book of Mormon, which if you haven’t seen it (it was my third time), it is honestly the greatest musical ever.
Now comes the fun part of the story. Flying from Brisbane to Shanghai via Seoul, with Maple in the cabin at my feet. Thankfully she got to have some good drugs to help her chill out, although it did not stop her from meowing every time I accidently moved my foot and nudged her carrier. Thankfully! The trip was surprisingly uneventful, even when I had to take her through airport security, holding her in my arms while the carrier when through the x-ray machine. The joys of loving your cat. All the crew were incredibly lovely and helpful with this journey and even with my mishap in Seoul, accidently walking half way across the airport thinking my gate was in that direction….all while carrying Maple, we made it to Shanghai with no problems. Customs went as smoothly as hoped, even though I was terrifed I had missed some piece of paperwork and was going to be told that they would not accept her. Finally we made it back to our aparment where we were greeted by my incredibly supportive and loving Claire, who immediately wanted to start annoying Maple to make up for all the lost time. Needless to say that had maple had the choice, she would absolutely have never travelled here willingly.
As you can plainly see, she has settled in and is now spreading fur at a truly insane rate as her body went from Australian winter to whatever the hell Shanghai feels like doing at the moment (lets just say it was hot as hell 2 weeks ago and has now suddendly decided it wants to cool down).
A new post will be coming sometime soon about the rest of our adventures and the two friends that visited us.
Talk soon xx.
S.
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