Where did this weekend go?
Well, considering I was supposed to be asleep 2 hours ago, here’s a cute photo of Celeste in “sphinx pose” on her pillow, which is above my pillow. Yes, she has her own special pillow. What can I say? They’re spoiled!
Hope you all have a great Monday! 😉
Seriously, is she just trying to test just how cute she can be to me? I don’t get how she can consistently outdo her cuteness factor. It boggles my mind.
During our trip through Thailand via our plush tour bus, we stopped at several pit stops along the way to use the rest room and purchase a snack. We were lucky if the restrooms had “Western style” toilets; the rest of the time their were porcelain holes in the ground and you had to scoop water from a small reservoir inside the stall to pour into the hole to “flush it”.
Most of the time we had to pay the rest room stewards 2-5 baht (5-15 cents) to use toilet; the money paid for a small wad of toilet paper and for the daily cleaning of the rest rooms. All the stalls (at least for women) had a small trash can to put your toilet paper in, because it could potentially clog the septic system in a lot of the more rural areas.
On one particular stop, I noticed an odd (yet cute) graphic on the trash can in the stall. It amused me so much that I just had to take a photo. I’m not quite sure what else to say about the following photo, so I will leave you to admire the most amusing trash can graphic (art?) I’ve ever seen.
In case it is hard to read, here is what it says below the title of “black & white”:
“We are very cool and probobly [sic] one of the most composed beings but when we cat we get wild on instinct. Do you?”
I’m not exactly sure what this literally means, but as a cat owner I’m certain that it’s true. 😉
On our travels throughout Thailand we came across many pets. Friendly street dogs were quite literally everywhere. We spotted them along side the road, in the big cities we visited, in places so out of the way that a dog seemed odd in the scenery, and everywhere in-between. If I had taken a photo of every dog I spotted along our trip, it would have been hundreds upon hundreds. Thankfully, they all looked quite well fed, though most were dirty and constantly scratching. 😐 Often times, we saw an owned dog or two. They were easy to tell apart from the street dogs, as they wore collars and were very clean.
Also frequently spotted, though not nearly as often as dogs, were friendly street cats. Most of them lived inside temple walls (and there are literally thousands of temples in Thailand), where they were protected from harm or starvation by the Buddhist monks.
Oddly enough, there were very few owned felines. Much fewer than owned dogs. Though, the ones that had permanent homes stood out from the rest as they were clearly spoiled; some even wore collars. One, especially, caught both Kev’s and my attention – Kanji’s long lost Thai twin! We were so elated that we asked his guardian if we could snap some photos. She allowed us to, but giggled at us the entire time.
Here, I present to you a photo of our cat Kanji Sebastian. Take a good look:
Now, take a look at his Thai twin/lookalike:
Amazing, isn’t it? Kevin had a few photos of each of our cats on his camera, so we showed his owner a photo of Kanji to prove that we weren’t crazy tourists. She was awed, but still found us amusing. 😛
So, is it just me or are genetics completely kick-ass?