Big Weekend in Hippoland!

Hello! A very tired meow to all my readers, because its been a busy weekend for the Hippo bear. Katie and Baxter decided not to leave town this weekend, but did decide to spend most of their time away from their house. I overheard something about running a tournament, but to be honest, I am generally so fascinated by other catnip flavored toys or the beauty of my own fur to pay attention to what others are saying.



They did decide to stop back at the house occasionally on each day, really with just enough time to ruin my typical Saturday debate weekend schedule:

6:00 am: wake up: race up/down stairs to attack first available piece of dangling textiles

6:15 am: scratch green scratchy-house to wake up my claws and get in a good stretch

6:23 am: nap

8:00 am: Hippo snacks for breakfast, maybe sneak a nip of cream
8:20 am: post breakfast nap
10:00 am: continued napping
12:00 noon: brief moping while lamenting the lack of laps within which to sit, ultimately resolved by finding a pile of laundry, blankets or electrical cords
1:00 pm: start drinking cream
3:30 pm: hard cream drinking afternoon nap
5:00 pm: wake up to have a brief snack and recover for the big night ahead
7:00 pm: party

7:30 pm: nap

9:05 pm: Party!

9:09 pm: nap

10:17 pm: PARTY!!!!
10:21 pm: nap
10:23 pm: party
10:26 pm: nap

And so on. Instead of this pretty reasonable schedule mixing work and play, I had to leave whatever cozy nest I had created to investigate the people stopping by to put things in the fridge or pick up insane amounts of mustard. That’s not even to mention the amount of different guests that visited the Hippo pad. At one point there were six people in one room of the house! Everyone was very nice and paid a pretty reasonable amount of attention to my beauty, even though I made myself scarce during the hard partying. I have noticed that people drinking a lot of beer sometimes act like Hippos after one too many pinches of nip, so it was probably the safest all around play. I managed to gather that the visitors included Kathryn, Joe, Jen and Christy (well Ken and Gordie too, but they are always dropping by) all of whom share the same “leave my adorable persian cat for the weekend to attend a debate tournament” mentality. There was a lot of discussion of mackerel, though I for some reason no one offered me any tasty fish.

Anyway, I have been told that this weekend I will be cuddling on the couch while watching football with my favorite people. While this is exciting for me, I am actually even happier for Katie and Baxter, who must be very very tired of being without me. Even the best camera phone movies do not compare to living meowing Hipposity.

Purrs and Smooches,

Hippo