Two Left. Three Came Back.

Greetings, blogster buds.  We're back!  We drove to central Illinois for my nephew's wedding, with a stopover in southern Illinois to see my aunt and uncle.
Our travel encounters usually involve weather, construction and traffic.  This trip our travel challenge was a little different.
The day we were to leave my aunt and uncle's, I heard a meowing in the woods.  A man cutting the grass said he thought it was a catbird.  I'm thinking, please be a catbird. But just in case I called.  Across the road and out of the woods streaked a kitten, just as a car came down the road. My heart stopped.  The kitten raced across the lanes, luckily before the car reached him and landed at my feet.
We tried rescue--filled up.  And the neighbors--it wasn't theirs.
Like so many other kittens, apparently he'd been  dumped.
If there had been another option, we would have taken it, but there was no way he could have survived in the woods.  So we packed him up and he went to central Illinois with us then back to NC.  Let me just say here, that the HH has always been great about rescues and this was no exception.  He said the minute he saw that kitten streaking across the road he knew he'd be coming with us to NC.
My main concern traveling with him was would we be able to get a hotel room that would take a kitten.  My sister had made us reservations at Days Inn. When we inquired about their pet policy, we found out that all they required was a ten dollar pet deposit. Whew. I was extremely relieved as I had visions of sleeping in the car with the kitten.
I'm going to put him on petfinder.com but we both think we've got another cat.
Okay, it's your turn.  What's been going on while I've been gone?

Frankie

Frankie and Friend

The bride and groom

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No More Road Trips.....For Awhile

So we decided to drive to a wedding in Illinois. (Yes, we hate to fly.)  It turned out to be a fourteen hour trip one way...or should have been.  On the way there, we passed a car burning alongside the road. Then we went a few miles further and came to a complete stop. There were about four cars, including us, in a stretch of semis that went further than the eye could see.  We moved two miles in two hours. We finally got through that and decided to stop for the night. The hotel had one room left, unfortunately their computer wouldn't let them use it so we ended up in handicap. A small pillow and a standard bed. Do you remember them? Somewhere between a twin and a queen. They did manage to dig up another pillow. The shower was set up for handicap but the head couldn't be raised up or lowered, it hit me about shoulder level. When I tried to wash my hair I jammed my eye on the soap dish. After that, we didn't even stick around for the complimentary breakfast just headed on out of there.

So we make it to the wedding, which was very nice, chatted with the relatives for a few minutes, then hopped in the car and headed back since the HH had to work Monday. This time we took a different route home. On the way back, I-65 was closed at the bridge. We were rerouted,onto I-64 on an old rickety double deck bridge at midnight, full to the gills with cars. We had been in Mothman territory on the trip to and this was much more woo-woo. We stopped at one a.m. and our luck changed. We pulled into a popular chain in Shelbyville, KY. All they had left was a suite and we gladly took it. I'm middle-America. When I hear suite, I think of a larger hotel room with a couch in it:) This really was a suite. Separate bedroom that was huge, a sitting room and a Jacuzzi.  Sweet:)
From that point, our trip home was uneventful.....

A few wedding pics

The Happy Couple

The father and bride

The Ceremony












The bride and groom's dance








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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
(Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
(Don't try this at home,maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...?!)

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes...lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(Ok, I'm going off the 'pig' idea a bit)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue..
(Hmmmmmm.......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(Okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains.
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)