Burger King #5 Please

We took a week off this past week and spent it at our house upstate. We really look forward to vacations upstate because it also means that we can bring up our cats instead of leaving them in our NY apartment. We have had our older Siamese, Burns, at the house before and he's always a total pleasure. He spends most of the week napping and sunning himself on the sofa in the living room. I love the way animals make a house come alive. We feel like a little family tucked away in the woods. We decided to give Sookie, our "True Blood" year old kitten, another chance. We had her up over New Years and she wasn't the best behaved. However, maybe the second visit would be better, right?

I love animals but don't want to be identified as one of those crazy pet people on the metro train so I drove up early with all of the luggage. Tim doesn't have issues with being a crazy cat lady so he picked up the cats after work and took the train. I met Tim at the Poughkeepsie train station and Burns was crying in his carrier as usual. He is most definitely - Siamese. Sookie was quiet but she hasn't learned how to meow yet- so that wasn't surprising. Burns cries enough for a dozen cats. We drove through the Burger King drive thru because we are currently addicted to the #5 A1 Steakhouse Burger with crunchy onion rings. Yum. We chowed down on the thruway and afterwards felt a little queezy from the quantity and smell of the fried food in the truck. Maybe it was the odor, the movement of the truck or the rude toll operator in Kingston but suddenly Sookie started meowing. We got so excited about her meowing that Tim pulled her out of her carrier bag and held her in his lap. Her meow is more of a squeak at this point. She sat there squeaking and we sat there amused and all of a sudden she pulled a Linda Blair all over us. Apparently, we weren't the only ones nauseous from Burger King. Tim put Sookie back in her carrier. 2 cats crying and squeaking, vomit, Burger King onion ring remnants and a two hour drive to the house. That was how our vacation began. Happy Family.