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Sunday morning nice and quiet until they decided to throw a First Communion party in the court yard under my sun window then Hari came by( you know I don’t mind him he’s cool). Then Nacho and Olga said they were coming and the phone started to ring off the hook, it seems that Nelida has the flu really bad and everyone is concerned. Finally Nacho and Olga showed up but Jeff and Ruby still stayed home because people were afraid of some disturbance depending on who won the election as it was nothing happened. I think everybody was tired from last night Ruby wasn’t the only one who threw a party. I found out that there has to be a winner this time around so I guess it’s possible that someone could get elected Mayor without a majority of votes. I really don’t understand why people want to be Mayor here or there. I’m really glad cats don’t have elections we just down to the vacant lot and the last one standing is the leader to the next fight. That way we don’t have the same politicians for years and years and years get the picture. I’ve heard that Jeff’s niece wants to go green and downsize I hope she remembers cat s are smaller than dogs. Here go the fireworks again and here I go under the bed ciao

Saturday night all dressed up and nowhere to go well not exactly there were about ten or twelve aunt cousins and assorted relatives between me and escape as well as my dinner and litter box. Not only that every time somebody new came in Jeff had to pick me up and bring me out for show and tell. Well I had enough of that and brought out the nails and gave his hand a good slice. He thinks it was just a accident LOL, I just give him my sad eyes and keep my head down and all is forgiven. He just doesn’t get it that I don’t like to picked up and carried around like a loaf of bread I have some picture that I’ll put up Sundays post and you see for yourself. Think that takes care of the obligatory Christmas visit to our house now Jeff and Ruby have to visit other people for the Holidays and I get to sleep in my sun spot. You have to understand it’s not that I don’t like their relatives I just prefer them one at a time. The only thing that made the day Ok was in the middle of this chaos Hari came to watch television with me; that was really cool. Sunday is Election Day again; remember I told you nobody won last time. I’ve asked if nobody wins this time what happens and nobody can tell me it should be pretty interesting, at least this time there wasn’t as much noise with the campaigning. Well as I look at the old clock on the wall I see it’s time to take a healthy poop and call it a day ciao.

Another day of Christmas shopping and from what I have heard they got everybody’s presents EXCEPT MINE. Now I know its Christmas season, good will to men and all that so I really don’t want to upset anyone but if they don’t hurry up and get my present soon I’m going to some serious damage to the Christmas tree. On another topic Jeff says that the town looks a little dirtier then usual Ruby says it because everybody is out partying every night. I remember those days when Jeff would go out to work one day and come home the next night, and this is when he didn’t drink, I can imagine what he was like when he did drink. When they got home Ruby went out again with Vanessa to shop that mean they were buying Jeff and John’s presents NOT MINE so I wasn’t in the mood to play with Jeff while Ruby was out. It started to get late and Jeff was getting hungry Oh wait a minute Ruby is here and opps she’s on the phone. Jeff does look very happy fortunately it Christmas time and Jeff like presents. The weekend is coming and Ruby has about ten aunts and cousins coming sat afternoon .At least I can climb under the bed Jeff has to sit and smile and be the host HA ,HA,HA I can’t wait. Well Ruby’s off the phone and Jeff’s dinner is on the way so I think I’ll go and run around a little bit make some noise and take a nap.

Yesterday Jeff and Ruby went to Medellin to do their banking and some Christmas shopping. ATTENTION SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT MEDELLIN WAS JUST VOTED ONE OF THE TOP FIVE BEST DECORATED CITES IN THE WORLD. He that’s pretty cool Apparently there is more to see then just the river Jeff and Ruby will being going back to check it out after Christmas when there  aren’t so many people and the traffic dies down to normal. Now where was I oh yes they went to do Christmas shopping they found the computer fans they were looking for at this mall that’s nothing but computer stores and because they were buying two they managed a slight discount.  While there John called and invited them to a vegetarian lunch, Jeff was not too excited about this but agreed to come along. They found this little out of the way place that John new about. Jeff hadn’t planned on ordering anything but decided to try a veggie burger (the one in the US taste like old paper). Well he got a pleasant surprise it was quite good it was very good; he asked John if the ones in the markets were as good and got a resounding no. I guess in that way veggie burgers are very similar to the US you can’t get a good on exempt in certain places .Oh,Oh I hear Hari coming have to go he’s my buddy Jeff and I have to go play. Being a Grancat is a lot of work and a lot of fun. I might be back later.

Now that they have been to the river the number of places to visit and write about is shrinking so Jeff is thinking what I should do with my time. He suggested I write a book now that’s not a very good idea. First who’s going to read a book by Flounder last name The Cat, secondly what kind of book to I write ? I mean just about every theme known to man has been used love stories, action, mystery spy and the list goes on. The plots are all similar so you have to find a hook the twilight series just took the book Dracula, which was a tragic love story, and made the characters a little more sympathetic and carried the thyme along further. Another example is Ian Flemings James Bond series I mean the plot is the same save the world get the girl it lasts because it was one of the first of its kind. If you look at the books that are out there now you’ll be able to recognize a plot or character you’ve read about before if you write about history you have to be able to wait about ten years between books and then you can write about someone again. Jeff always complains about the lack of imagination in movies, TV, and books now I don’t know anything about that I do know that it gets harder and harder to do something that Jeff and Ruby haven’t seen before so I can keep them guessing what’s next. I believe the longer you live and read the more likely you are to feel this way I think that’s why humans for get things and Elephants start to look sad and bored as they get older. Well there getting ready to go back to Medellin to do some Christmas shopping and they better get me my present. After all times getting short and if they forget I’m sure I can come up with something spectacular for revenge. Ok scratch time I’ll get back to you later.  Oh before I forget here’s some more pictures

Ok its mall visit time I don’t know if all the pictures will fit I might have to put them up a little at a time. Now first you need to know that this is a very expensive mall that most people in Bello never get to see, but just like in America you can find everything here minus the brand name a lot cheaper in town. Before I go further I should say that the history post I put up before was pretty much word for word from Wikipedia on line encyclopedia. I told Jeff he should use quotes or footnotes or something and he said it made him seem like he knew what he was talking about, that was just before he pushed me of his boney lap and I scratched his leg. Now back to the mall, it’s a very pretty place they even make the Hamburger joint Archie’s look elegant with wine bottles on the table s and table linen. They probably tripled the price just like they did with everything else in the mall. The only reason they were there was to see a snow display they were supposed to have set up somewhere .They never got to see it because Nachos daughter showed up with her new puppy and they had to sit outside and watch it run around and poop for twenty minutes ( see I told you cats were better). They  found a place that sold model trains and thought the price was ridicules at about $1500 for an Ho set not so when Jeff got home he looked up the set on the internet in the US and found the discounted price was $3268.42 But he still not going to buy it. This end of Medellin has a lot of American brand names not just in the mall there was an Office Depot on the road as well as other stores and the mall had several names of clothiers (which of course Jeff can’t remember now, but he remembered the trains) .After a ride in rush hour traffic, which resembles New York a little too much, they got to the river about 5 minutes to six and exactly at six the lights went on. I must say although Ruby seemed to think they weren’t quite as well done as the last time she saw them which was 2 years ago they were pretty cool according to Jeff. They had a conversation with a couple of police officers about their concern for his camera because they were about to cross a patch where there were no lights and under an over pass. Ruby made Jeff put the camera away, he had no objection as there was nothing to photograph anyway, and of course there were no cops to be seen under there. Ruby thought there would be more lights strung across the river so she had Jeff bring his long lens and of course they decided to keep the light more on the bank of the river so you guessed it wrong lens. But I think judging from the pictures that it was still pretty special. So here are the pictures meanwhile I’m going to find a sunbeam to lay down in to rest my weary bones so I can raise hell tonight ciao.

Well we got threw a whole day without rain don’ know how long that will last there was some thunder and lightning around a while ago. Jeff, Ruby, John and Hari went to the stadium to walk around and see the lights. I should point that it more than a stadium it more like a sports complex. It has exercise equipment at various spots around it has a soccer stadium and several small soccer fields around as well as a full practice size one. There are volley ball courts and a basketball arena several play areas for kids and a skate board area as well as a BMX area (the last two need a little fixing up). The place was rebuilt a few years ago it had been left unused for about ten years due to a political dispute between Bello and Medellin. The place is really busy on Sunday people come to hang out, bring their dogs (UGH) . But anyhow they did a really nice job of decorating it for the Holidays and Jeff finally got some pictures of course they weren’t the best has he was told to leave his good camera home by you guessed it Ruby. I let him post the pictures and wait a minute guess what it’s raining @#$^%$#@. Well let me go to bed and pray it’s not raining when I get up.

OK I must apologize for my rant last night I’m better now the sun is shining  at least for now Jeff and Ruby went for a walk I got to sleep in the sun for awhile, life is good. So let’s see what can we talk about now? Somebody write and tell us what the weather is up there so we can gloat. I mean it might be raining a lot down here but it’s still better then cold and snow. I heard some guy was shooting at the V.tech. Campus again we don’t have many gunfights down here. The rebels buy all the good guns the cops get the old ones and you don’t want to be stopped carrying a gun or knife down here. We do have a lot of campus unrest it’s sort of a tradition down here I don’t think the kids like the colleges closed for such a long vacation because the parents want them to go to work. Jeff said when they were walking he saw several street crews working and he said it reminded him of the US one guy sweeping and seven standing around watching. Ruby says they take turn that way everybody keeps their jobs; I don’t think Jeff was buying it though. The mall was busier than usual, I guess because all the schools are closed for vacation and just like the US kids like to go to the mall and hang out with their friends. Nothing big is planned for the weekend which suits me fine I just want it to be nice so Jeff and Ruby will go out somewhere and leave alone to lie in the sun and chill. Jeff’s listening to WDHA radio out of Dover N.J. on the computer not exactly my type of music, I prefer something more on the mellow side, but it is American music and beggars can’t be choosers. Well if it does rain again I won’t have to write about it you’ll hear the explosion in Canada. Ok natures calling I got go poop see you later

It”s Thursday 10pm and it started raining at 6:30 again and it’s still raining I’m going to throw a cat fit I can’t take it any more I’m going to scratch dome furniture, knock over my food, Empty the litter box on the kitchen floor, howl and run around the house all night, and then I’m really going to get pissed off. BYE