At least I have had a nice nap!
Well, it was as I suspected, we
were unceremoniously put into our boxes and put in the car. Off we rolled and got out in a very noisy
place. We went inside where there were
way too many humans, making way too much noise.
Mom talked to someone and gave her the two suitcases she has been
packing and then we had to go somewhere else, to a quiet place. We waited in a narrow hallway for a while, then
someone came with a flat stick (Mom called it a scanner), and Mom had to take
each of us out of our boxes and hold us tight while a man put the stick inside
our boxes, then by us. We were both glad
to go back inside the boxes, as they were not nearly as scary as the hallway
and the man with the stick.
After that, Mom said goodbye to us
and walked away! We were terrified! Where was Mom going? We were with strangers! Later on, someone came and took us in our
boxes outside, then into a little room.
Mom was nowhere around. Mina was
a little panicky. A little while later,
the little room began to vibrate and there was a lot of noise. The room continued to vibrate and, since I
was very sleepy, I went to sleep. I
think Mina did, too. We woke up when
someone picked up our boxes, took us outside again, and put us into another
small room. This one also vibrated and
made a lot of noise.
Finally, after sleeping for a
while, the vibrating stopped and someone came and took our boxes outside again
and then into a big, noisy place. Our
boxes were on a rolling thing. All of a
sudden, there was Mom. She appeared to
be very happy to see us, almost as happy as we were to see her. We thought we would never see her again. She told us that we were in Brussels
(Brussels sprouts?). I don’t know where
or what it is, and I sure don’t know how we got there. Anyway, before long, there was Dad. We hadn’t seen him for a long time, and it
was nice to see him again. All the
suitcases were piled on the rolling thing with us and we rolled outside, to
where Dad’s car was. We were packed into
the car with a whole lot of other stuff.
Mom said we had flown here. What
delusions! I still don’t have any wings.
After rolling for a while, the car
stopped and we all got out and went into one of those little houses again. Mom put down the litter box, although we didn’t
know that’s what it was at first, because it smelled funny. Dad put some dirt in it, but we still weren’t
sure, so Mom peed in it a little, and then we knew. What a relief! We had some food to eat, and water to
drink. Not much like home, but it was
not bad.
In the morning, everything was
packed up and off we rolled once again.
We stopped several times, but kept right on rolling through the night
and all the next day. Mom and Dad ate,
but we didn’t! Not that we were all that
hungry. All that rolling just makes us
sleepy. We continued to roll through the
next night. Mom said something about beljum,
luxburg, frans, switz . . ., itali. We
stopped at a place and waited for a while, then the car drove onto a boat. They called it a ferry. We went upstairs on the boat and there were
lots of people, none of whom seem to know how to talk. It was just gibberish coming out of their
mouths, although I could tell that a lot of them liked us. After dark, we went to a really tiny
house. Mom and Dad slept on tiny, little
beds and we just explored the tiny bathroom and that was pretty much it. At least we had food and litter box.
In the morning, we got into the car
again and rolled off. Where to? Who knows?
Mom said there were lots of trees and said something about grease. We could not see the trees or the grease,
since we were pretty well packed in.
They finally let us out of the boxes, so we could move around and see
stuff, but it was a little scary. Things
were moving by the car so fast! We sat
with Mom for a little while, but it was better just to find a comfortable place
and go to sleep. When the daylight was
gone and it had been dark for a while, we stopped again. We stayed there for some time, while Dad went
into places and handled a lot of papers.
Then we went to another place to stop and we there even longer, with
more papers. Finally we were able to
roll again, and we found another little house to sleep in. Mom says we are in the turkey now. Somehow it's just not what I expected. I thought there would be a lot of meat and bones. Maybe Mom is just kidding me. This just doesn't look like something to eat, since there are trees and houses and stuff in it.
The morning brought more packing up
and we rolled off again. Before too
long, we came to a place where we parked.
Mom and Dad went off somewhere and left us in the car. They came back a long time later (long after
dark), opened the back of the car, and showed us to some people. Finally they got in the car and we rolled off
again. Fortunately, it was not too long
before we stopped at a little house again.
Those stops are always nice, though small. Dad did not stay in the little house with us.
In the morning, we rolled off
again, and then Mom and we stayed at another little house, while Dad went
somewhere else. It was all a little
confusing to us, but bearable. After all
that, we rolled away again in the morning, but just a little way. We went to an actual house, where we were put
into a room with our litter box and some food.
The door was shut and we were alone.
We looked around a little, but then slept. Mom and Dad came back later, but then things
were packed up once more and off we went, rolling down the road at night. All the other stuff was out of the car, just
a few suitcases and us, plus four humans.
When we stopped (after a long nap), the air smelled different. We went into a place they called an
apartment. It had two rooms and a bathroom,
with some outdoor places with screens on them.
Sort of like the patio at home, but up off the ground. It was nice there, even though Mom and Dad,
Dad’s brother, and mother came and went a lot.
One day, Mom slept most of the day, because she was so tired from all
the rolling we had done. She was
tired?!!!! What about us? The next day, they all came back smelling
different again. In fact, they were wet
and it smelled like funny-type water.
Mom said they were at the beach and that we were in a place called
Alanya. After two days, we went back to
the house and our room. Mom slept in the
next room, and she opened the door between us so we could have a little more
room.
All of these memories are making me
very tired, so I must go and take a nap.
Yours,
Apache
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