I'm in Birmingham with my husband, four cats, the U.S. Open, and enough software issues to keep me very occupied. The ride here was a big surprise. For 3 1/2 hours, the traffic was normal--only there were fewer people in the road. Not long before we approached our first Interstate highway turnoff, traffic slowed to almost a halt. We were caught in that for what seemed like a really long time. But once we got on the Interstate, everything was fine again. It normally takes us 5 hours to get to Birmingham; this trip took 7 1/2.
The sister cats had been through this evacuation scene before, and the slept through the trip. One of the younger ones talked for a long time, then he went to sleep. The other one, our resident drama queen, yelled and clawed his pet taxi and carried on every which way until I had the good sense to put some catnip in his pet taxi and put on some Maria Callas and Joni Mitchell (forgot to bring Mozart--a tried and true cat calmer). After that, the noise tapered off, and he went into a deep sleep.
They have done a bit of exploring of our suite, but not much.
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