Monday, November 17, 2008

What is this place?

We arrived at a new place in the belly of one of those big birds and this one, too, coughed us up and into the hands of some humans who make even different sounds than the previous ones. We feel very strange too. Some other humans took us a way along a bumpy ride and to a place where we heard a sound we know. They took us to a brightly lit room and finally let us out of our boxes. Here we found Jim and Janet- our human companions! We don't understand how we got here and we don't understand how they got here, but at least they are familiar! Let them explain.
Early in the morning of Nov. 13, Ziggy and Zoe's long journey ended with delivery to our apartment in Bangalore! Our furniture arrived just hours before- between 8:30 and 10PM and we set up as much as we could- including the Z's favorite climbing tree that we shipped over. It was a very long day with more delays, but both arrived. The day was complicated by the fact that our mobile phone outgoing service was turned off because the major service provider had not yet verified Jim's work location. (This took 3 more days to fix and was quite frustrating- but, we gather, rather typical.) The movers wanted to delay the furniture another day, but we said no, because we had no place to stay except the apartment. So, the movers arrived at 8:30 and finished about 10PM. We did not ship too much, so it was manageable. Ziggy and Zoe seemed to be delayed at Bangalore airport for some reason we don't understand and arrived about 12:45AM on the 13th. Newspaper strips had been put into their carriers in London instead of some sort of small litter box and the paper got quite wet and then the ink got all over both Zoe and Ziggy. It showed most obviously on Zoe, who is mostly white- she looked gray like Ziggy! It was very disconcerting. We spent about 45min. trying to clean some off of her so she would not eat all the ink cleaning herself and then we went to sleep about 2AM. We write this several days later because we didn't have internet access very much and were very busy. The Z's are much more like normal now.
Zoe and Ziggy back now.... They didn't explain much about where we are or why we are here now!

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