Let's Go to a Faraway Japaney Place!

A while ago the big guy and his cute wife that we live with decided to go on a remarkable journey from their home to a faraway land full of temples and fish and trains and small things, and kindly enough they asked us to come along.  Being catballs, and therefore being lovers of adventure, we were more than willing to accept their offer.  They said that we would meet a crazy new friend there that we'd be sure to like, and would see all sorts of things that we cannot see back home in the front yard or the back yard.  Because we are small and quiet and only occasionally rambunctious, they decided that we could ride along in secret in their carry-on luggage.

After lots of planning, it was finally time for us to go.  Really really early in the morning, we went to an airplane place and rode on a conveyor belt and got zapped by rays--it felt really bizarre and kind-of tingly but not so bad.  We were lucky to not be discovered and handled roughly by the policeish folks that worked there--I have heard many unpleasant things about that group!  But the big guy and his wife said not to worry, that they're not so bad and are just doing their best to be safe, and as adventurous as we catballs are, being safe is pretty good too.

We got pretty well settled into our hidey space while we waited for our airplane to take us away.  There were lots of bleary-eyed people and nervous people and excited people all ready to go to different interesting places.  Finally it became time for us to get on ours to go.  We took one last look around, nestled in together, and the big guy's cute wife closed the bag.

For HOURS and HOURS and HOURS we rode in the airplane in secret inside of the baggage compartment.  Lucky for us we had some catball snacks to snack upon and books and games to play while we jetted through the cosmosphere.  It was really dark and there was nobody else in there but us, so on occasion we got out to stretch and play with other people's things (shhhh!  Don't tell!) and roll about, but finally the plane driver said it was time for us to land and that we needed to buckle in to be safe and turn off our electronical devices.  We complied, of course.  Finally, we were in Japan Land!

The big guy and his cute wife told us that we should probably behave ourselves and be polite and respectful of our new surroundings, stressing how different it was from home.  The people seemed smaller and thinner and didn't wear cutoff jean shorts like back home, and there was this funny moon language all over the place, and there were names like Kimiko and Hasegawa instead of Donna and McGee.  It was all quite fascinating--we had not taken any kind of adventure like this before, that is for sure!

From the plane place, we all walked together to a train place, where we hopped on a subway car to where we were going to be staying.  The human members of our group wanted to find their bed so they could recharge their batteries (not sure where those are inserted) so they could enjoy their new surroundings.  Being catballs, we did have a bit of extra energy to spend, and fortunately the train car was more than willing to accomodate us.

This was a very convenient catball-sized hangly dangly thing, just perfect for a traveling catball to thoop into and swing from.  It was neat watching out the windows as the very foreign land with its very foreign cars and very foreign rooftops and things passed on by.

All around there was more crazy writings and cute drawings of things and friendly stuff to look at--it was almost too much for me to take in all at once!  But finally, we got off the train and walked a little ways to the hotel.  The big guy and his cute wife passed out almost immediately, but we catball brothers had a little too much energy built up, too much excitement to discover this fascinating new place we were in.  Because the humans didn't want us to go out on our own, we decided to settle in and watch some tv to help us settle in.

This is definitely an interesting place!