Departure - Nov. 3

CRASH! BANG! BOOM! ...YEOOOOOOW!.....D@#$%!......That's what we heard! It was an awful day for us, but maybe it was worse for our human companions. They can write now and we'll put more later.
It was a stressful day of trying to wrap up dozens of details before departing for India. We did a huge number of things over the preceding days, weeks and months, but there are always more things to do! On this day we canceled a phone line, did laundry, washed dishes, cleaned house, sorted through countless items to pack up, received more items to take in the afternoon mail, arranged some details with a neighbor who will forward our mail, had a plumber fix a small leak in a pipe, took Ziggy and Zoe to the Vet again for their international health certificates, mailed a last minute return to a store, took showers and finished packing and turned off electronics in the house. The driver to the airport arrived 20 minutes early to apply more pressure - he was annoyed at having to wait. Just minutes before leaving Janet climbed up on a step stool to retrieve something from a high shelf and Crash! Bang! Boom! Yeooow!... she fell down on her right arm. After a few minutes she thought the arm was broken and "D@#$%!" is what was said. After awhile longer the driver came in and we all pondered what to do. Janet 's pain was subsiding, so she decided we should proceed to JFK airport- About 2 hours away. We took an ice pack and this helped the arm. Janet felt there were no other serious injuries except the arm, so we took our Flight on Lufthansa and left the USA about 10PM.
Ziggy and Zoe back again. They made us go into little boxes and took us away in the morning to the Veterinarian (they said the name enough times over the past weeks that we know its not "Vegetarian" now.) They didn't do anything too mean to us this time. They just got some papers. When we got back home there were all these suitcases around full of stuff- without us! And without our consent! There are also 2 big boxes in the living room that they keep trying to get us to go into. The boxes are a lot like the little ones used for the vet, but much bigger- they seem very nice! We wonder why they are here -they are nice to go in, but who needs them? Those loud noises late in the day were scary! We don't like loud noises! They left us and said something about seeing us soon, so we assume they will be back soon- even with all that luggage.