2 Girls in the World

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

the daily

The home leave reading assignment was a real page turner...

Can't wait until she's finished so I can read "Who's Counting?".

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

the daily

By day 4 after the snow and ice storm, Peachtree was back in full swing...

Monday, January 17, 2011

the daily (except yesterday, but hey God rested on Sunday too)

Seems our favorite coffee shop in Athens that closed so many years ago has reemerged and reinvented itself...

**LIKE**

Saturday, January 15, 2011

the daily

The dancing game on Wii is by far the most hilarious game I've ever been privileged enough to witness at any conference...

Way better than Jenga. Waaaaay.

Friday, January 14, 2011

the daily

Someone can't wait until February...

She still can't believe Emu is staring her in own feature film!!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

We've come home to so many of our friends as new parents and a lot who will be very soon. Meeting all these precious little babes has been so wonderful and we're so happy we'll be here for the births of a few more.

As cute and precious as they all have been, we can see how much work it really is to be a parent. We stand in awe of how our dear friends are rising to the challenge and taking this major life change in blissful stride. You guys are all amazing!

I don't know how you do it, but I'm planning on a lot of "time-outs" when we finally jump on the family wagon...

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

the daily

We've loved being home with all our friends and family since the holidays. The thing I miss most when we're on the road is just the normalcy and comfort of being with people you know and who know you.

Especially when they invite you over for dinner and game night...

I may have lost at Cranium and Apples to Apples, but I kicked all their arses at Clue. Thanks J & D for a great night!

The much anticipated...

Since we’re iced in for the 3rd day in a row and have been unceremoniously kicked out of the hotel lounge due to a misunderstanding with the new front desk personnel, (Who were we to argue when they told us at check-in that we have club level access and programmed our keys to give said access? I mean we did live in your hotels for 75 days last year. We thought it was the least you could do since you wouldn’t even give us a king bed. Obviously I’m digressing and I’m doing so within parenthesis…which is wrong on a lot of levels, but I’m okay with it since I think it gives you a sense of how stir crazy I’m feeling and how annoying I find this particular hotel. I’m just saying: Intercontinental = CRAPTASTIC loyalty program.) I don’t really have an excuse not to write.

Without further ado, our cat café story…

The day before we left Japan we finally made it past the cat covered door at Hapineko Cat Café in Shibuya. Of course once we made it to that door we had 20 minutes of preparation before actually be allowed past the second door and in with the cats.

First up was the menu because the “café” part of a cat café is literal…

Then we had to brush up on the rules like how to properly support a cat’s butt and how wrong it is to pick up a cat from a “high” place…

We then had to sign some papers, take off our shoes, place our bags inside a laundry bag, wash and sanitize our hands, put on some slippers and *drum roll please*…

I’m not sure what I expected from café cats, maybe a little caffeine induced energy, but what we got was what everyone gets with a cat- pure, unadulterated laziness.

I’d say at least 98% of the cats were sleeping and those not sleeping were plenty content to just hide out in their pineapples…

Our entry fee included 30 minutes and a drink. I have to say my latte was pretty good, but with all the sleepers and the rules about which cat you could pick up or touch only on the head (different collars meant they had just been to the vet) I was getting a little worried we’d only be experiencing the café portion of the place.

Why weren’t these cats interested in us? What did this lady have that we didn’t???