DestiMEOWtion Frankfurt: Frankfurt

Hi there!

So many new things, one is almost too busy to write things in here. I will try to sum up the last days. There is not much use in Phoebe, she is only lying on the kitchen window sill and sleeping day in and day out. She says she is never gonna move and will get as fat as I am. I am still not fat, arrrrgggg.

There is ridiculous amounts of amazing food here. In Finland there is only one affordable food that you can buy in the supermarkets and that won't slowly kill us, says Mommy. In Germany there are lots of them apparently, Mommy brings home something new all the time! I also got some food for Christmas from the bear. Today we ate two different foods already. Mommy said it is good for us to eat different foods, so we won't get picky. As if I'd ever get picky. Food is food and always amazing. But I won't complain.

While Phoebe is lying on the window sill in the kitchen, I usually lie on the one in the sofa room. Or I am napping with Mommy on the sofa and watch TV. Or I follow Mommy through the flat and tell her I want more food. She still fails to understand me. Or she doesn't want to. Sometimes I also lie in the shelf. We were never allowed to lie in the shelf before, but now there is even two beds installed in it. It's just too amazing.

On Saturday our Grandma came to visit with our spare Grandpa and the bear. The bear was nice. Grandma likes me more than Phoebe. I can understand her. Phoebe is difficult to like, even though I do. Most of the time.

There are interesting noises in the house often... because we have a common hallway with the neighbors, not like in Finland. There is also the dog, that is barking sometimes.
Outside there are boomboom noises lately... it's that time of the year again. Mommy and Daddy will go to Grandpa's and spare Grandma's place tomorrow. We can't come, because Mikko will eat us. Or something. Phoebe can't wait for the boomboom. I am a little unsure, but I guess we are safe in here and it can't be worse than the trip to here.

Mommy tries to teach German to Daddy. She puts post its on everything. Daddy was complaining that only the word for "cat" was not enough, so he got all the forms, too.

Whaaat? Chubby?? Me?? WHAAAAT?

Oh well, luckily I speak German already. Wouldn't wanna be in Daddy's fur.

Mommy also is looking for jobs to buy me more food. That is good. I think. I hope she finds one, soon. I want food.

Bye humans!
-Ruska

Look, it's me and Phoebe!

Tucked in and watching TV... me at least. Phoebe is watching Mommy.

In Phoebe's fave spot!

Oh hi, hello hoomans!

We are not on a boat anymore, but we are in another country!!
Excitiiiiiiiing!

The boat was fun. Ruska got seasick and puked. I am not allowed to tell this to anyone. I still did. Hihiiiiiiii. But otherwise everything was fine. I slept on Mommy's legs. Mommy didn't sleep.

In the morning Mommy put our harnesses on. OMGOMGOMG that means we get to go outside??? She wanted to put Ruska in her harness first, but she could not close it, because Ruska gained too much weight. So funny. Then I had to wear Ruska's and Ruska mine, because mine can be changed to a bigger size. Ruska's was a bit too big for me, even in the tightest size. But we did not get the leashes and outside as usual, but we had to go back into the boxes. We left the boat and got into the big car again.

It was very loud and shaky and I think Mommy was more scared than us. I heard them talk that it was very, very windy and the wind tried to blow over the big car!!! Or something like that. And that we are in Sweden! We drove through the Sweden a long time. Every now and then we stopped, then we got our leashes and could go to the litterbox in the back of the big car. But we were waaaay to excited to use it!! On one stop we were even allowed to walk around a bit. Wow, I walked in Sweden!! What Finnish cat can claim that it has walked around in Sweden? So proud.
My box was on Mommy's lap most of the time. It was fun, cause I could see a bit. Every time she tried to put me down because her legs got sore I made sure I started to scream until she took me back up. Hihi. We were very quiet otherwise, you know. We are nice cats. But when I started screaming then Ruska started whining and then their ears would hurt. Hihi.

We drove over a huge bridge and Mommy said we might be blown into the sea by the wind. But we didn't. Then we drove through a thing called Denmark! Mommy said, that the Mommy of our friend Casey is from Denmark! We didn't get to walk much in Denmark, the only time we stopped we were in a harbour again. I was so excited I accidentally almost slit Mommy's throat when she tried to put me to the litterbox. She wasn't amused. It was very cold and windy. Then we got onto a boat again! YAAAAAAAAY! But this time we didn't have a little flat and we had to stay in the boxes. When we got off the boat Mommy said we are in Germany and that is where our Mommy comes from...and also our brother Mikko.

We drove much more in Germany. At some point Mommy, Daddy and their friend went to get food for themselves at a place with a yellow M. Mommy said it wasn't so good as she's used to. They make different yellow M things in Germany apparently! We also got food there. Ruska inhaled almost the whole bowl, but Mommy stopped her, because she was scared Ruska would puke again. I wasn't hungry. Too exciting!!!!

We drove eeeeeven more and then I could see the picture from our banner!!!! Only without the lightning... and only the top part! But the same buildings with the same lights! We arrived and got out of the car. Mommy didn't seem to like much where we were at first... she said she was never gonna leave the flat. Yaaaay, Mommy will always be home! We went through a gate and a dark backyard and Mommy was reading the names on the doorbells to see who our new neighbors are. She said it looked mixed, German names and not-German names and even doorbells with names like Mommy's and Daddy's: one German and one not German. She said that is a pretty good sign, because she would not want to live somewhere with only German names and neither with only not-German names. I don't get it. I wondered if there were cats.

We walked up many stairs and past a door where a dog barked. Then we got into a flat. We had to wait in the bathroom, because Daddy and the human friend had to get more stuff from the car, so they could sleep. Mommy was in the bathroom with us. She was talking and I am not sure if she was talking to us or to herself. She said everything but the bathroom is really nice and if it wasn't she would already be in a taxi to the airport.

We finally got out and could walk around when Daddy and the friend came back. They had already met a nice neighbor. But no nice cats yet. The flat looked bigger than our home in Tampere, even though Mommy said it is not much bigger actually. Even Ruska got excited, because there are so many peepholes and all of them have a seating spot! And not a wobbly one! And it has warm next to it! I could not see any trees and birds as back in Tampere, though. There are just houses. From the kitchen there is a ugly backyard. From the bedroom and sofa room there is a street with houses and a big muddy hole where more houses will be built. Daddy said, that they are renovating the area and it will look less scary in one year or so.

I was sleeping on Mommy's legs, after I got rid of all the leftover energy from being stuck in the box for so long. Then we had to go to the kitchen for a long time and when we got out there was stuff all over the place again! Mommy was constantly complaining about the chaos and that she wouldn't go to bed before at least the sofa room and kitchen looked like real rooms. Their friend left and Mommy and Daddy carried stuff around for many hours. Luckily Mommy put the climbyscratchthing up right away!

Here are some pictures of our new home: