Where's the Cat?

Today Moms and Dads went to Stamford to watch big balloons get blown up. I thought that the ones she buys for us at the party store were big but, no, there are bigger ones. These float in the sky like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, except that they float in the Stamford UBS Parade tomorrow. Moms and Dads went to the balloon-blowing-up party. There were lots of cartoon characters being filled with helium, including Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, and Kermit the Frog. What was missing from the balloons were the ones of the CATS. "Garfield" was represented by Odie. There was Clifford the Big Red Dog but there was no cat of a similar or different color. Moms even had the nerve to pose with the big bright puppy dog.

Don't worry. The dog has legs, but they hadn't gotten that far yet. They only inflated his head and tumtum. They didn't even inflate his happy tail yet.
Dads posed with my favorite balloon, a monkey in space. My folks kept saying his name was Curious George but I don't care. I'm just curious to see if he can come over to play.

Dads' hospital sponsored a balloon. Here is the rump of their balloon -- they picked the Love-a-Lot Care Bear. I'm not sure how much he cared about Moms and Dads though, since she wouldn't look at them.

Where did Bob's body go?

Moms made Dads stand with the biggest bird we have ever seen. Big Bird, as he is aptly named, was dressed up like a grand marshall. Maybe he will lead the parade tomorrow. Here's a picture of that big dog again, along with Betty Boop who said hi to everybody. I think that little girl across from Boopy is crying.

Moms and Dads are so excited that they've figured out how to take video on their digital camera that they video tape *everything* now. Moms took a video of how they blow up the balloons but Blogger doesn't like video uploads today; she'll post it up later. You know, all of the floats are tied to the ground with great big bags of catnip. The parade is tomorrow and they expect 100,000 people. Even with all of that catnip there, I will stay at home, thank you.

In other news, Moms asks that everyone *not* discuss the Yale/Harvard game that happened this afternoon. She's pretending the whole mess never even happened...

Purrs from your virtual cat, JDamn!