Well, we've been here a week already, which seems a bit amazing all by itself.
The flight to Washington went well, even landed an hour early - just as well, as all that extra time was soaked up dealing with Immigration & Customs, and getting our cats inspected for the flight onwards to Little Rock. Speaking of which, the little furballs didn't like the trip in the least - at the Washington stop they were pretty unhappy, but calmed down once Cat had cleaned their cages of stuff, and replaced the towels. Unfortunately, the flight to Little Rock was delayed by an hour, and when we went to board it, we saw the cat cages had been brought out and left on the tarmac beside the hold while all the baggage was loading - a particularly thoughtless and cruel thing to do, as the area was INCREDIBLY noisy with jet engines revving up everywhere. Cat remonstrated with the (I think Haitian) attendant, to absolutely no effect of course (the rules must be obeyed, ja wohl?)
Once we got to the motel and decanted them, they were both pretty traumatised from the noise, and the uncertainty, and it took a couple of days before they recovered enough to even show interest in cat treats or tuna. They're still a bit disgruntled, but I think that's partly just the change of routine, plus the small area they have - one room plus a bathroom.
I started work on Monday but they werent/arent ready for me, so I still haven't done anything worth speaking of, nor even gotten the basic paperwork done: nice to see HR departments are equally useless all around the world! More on this next time :)
It appears we now may have a rental property arranged for a 10 month lease - 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, enormous lounge, and fenced back yard to keep the cats safe. Havent heard definitively yet, but it seems to be going well (there are also a couple of other nearby properties if this does fall through).
Weather has been warm to hot (up to 90 one day), and some humid.
More tomorrow
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Good post.
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