Free Day!
Most of today will be free for some sightseeing or shopping or a bit of both. Our ride to the airport leaves at 2:30 so I’m free until then. I don’t have a lot of room in my suitcase, so lots of shopping is out of the question — not to mention what it does to my budget. However, I can’t pass up the chance to visit a few stores that we don’t have in Helena in search of things I just have to have. 
Yesterday we finished up about 5:00 p.m. I came back to the hotel, freshened up, and took the train to NJ to meet up with Barbara Chronakis, her husband George, and their beautiful cats — the wegies of Kashi Saga. I’d send you off to Barbara’s website to meet them, but as yet she doesn’t have a site. Hopefully that will soon be remedied as her cats are absolutely stunning. Barbara has been a NFC breeder for many years and was full of stories about the history of the cats here in the United States. She is also an avid pedigree tracker and knows a ton about the lines here in the U.S. especially — not just which cats are in the lines, but about the health issues that have occured in some of the lines. Our time together just flew by and I wish we were closer so we could have more enjoyable evenings (or weekends in the show hall) together.
Well, if I’m going to get anything more than packing done this morning, I need to make this short. I can’t wait to get home to see my babies. It was great to get my kitty fix and some cuddles from Barbara’s cats (they were sweet and friendly as well as beautiful) but it’s not the same as having my own cats around me, cuddled up to me when I sleep.
Oh, baby news… Heather still hasn’t delivered my new grandson. He’s not due until May 1st, but she and her midwife both were just sure he’d arrive early — especially since she’s been having contractions for several weeks and ended up in the hospital once, with both Heather and the staff thinking it was the real deal. But no. Not yet.