Kittens!!

I'm home now, so this will be my last post for this blog, unless I change the name.... The trip back was fine, but I missed my connection in LA and had to wait about 4 hours for the next flight. I was no big surprise that I missed the connection--I only had an hour to go through customs, get my bag, walk--or rather run--from terminal 3 to terminal 7 (at the opposite end of the airport, of course), go back through security and then find my gate... Not a chance. I wish that I had just decided that it wasn't possible, and not tried to make it because then I wouldn't have gotten so flustered and upset over missing it after literally sprinting the mile between terminals and arriving all sweaty... but oh well! When I re-booked I went to Starbucks and got a nice big cup of peppermint tea, and just sat to calm down for a while.

Conor had told me on the phone that there was a big surprise waiting for me at home, and though I had tried and tried to think of what it might be, I didn't have any inkling until we got to the door. Conor said, "Ok, you go in first, but be careful opening the door." At that point, I gasped, and when I opened the door, there were two adorable kittens waiting for me!!! We had talked about how great it would be to have pets (dogs or cats), but felt like we probably shouldn't get them because we're going to move again at the end of the year. We had seen the SPCA tent set up at the farmers market a week or two before going to Mexico, and the kittens were just so cute! So what a wonderful thing to come home to!! We haven't decided totally on names yet, but Conor was thinking of naming them Darwin and Wallace, which I like (especially for the cat we want to name Darwin), but can't help feeling is just to science-nerdy... SO then we decided that they should both have long official names, and that they can both have science-y names if they both get to have literature-nerd names too! So, what we have right now is Sir Darwin Sniffles Blake for the gray one and Sir Milton Wallace for the creamsicle colored one (we haven't come up with a good middle name for Milton Wallace yet--Sniffles is because Darwin sniffles a lot. He was the runt, and so he's got a lot more funny traits right now than Milton. I'm sure that eventually we'll think of something good as a middle name for Milton!). Here are some photos:


I'm going to put more pictures of my trip up soon, in flicker or on facebook, so I'll post a link when I've got it all set up!