Wow...I have just realized that I haven't been writing on our blog since the end of July, just before departing for our long journey throughout Japan. I can say that doing it all by ourself, it was kind of an adventure. It was our first time in far east Asia, and Japan is beautiful but slightly disarming for the first time traveller. Coming from western nations, at the beginning you loose all your points of reference, everything - from finding a place on a map (but without names of the streets) to ask easy information - becomes an intrepid endeavor that not always (sometimes never!) has the result or the answer that you would expect. Japan is a land of strong contrasts: modernity vs. ancient traditions, concrete buildings vs. beautiful nature, rigor and severity vs. "kawaii" (cuteness) and fun characters used for everything. We loved Japan and we tried to experience as much as possible of that country, its traditions and its contrasts. In the next posts we will share some of these experiences together with photos and videos. Not just a mere description of our trip, but more like a tale of fun facts and personal opinions of what we experienced.
The most important fact after our return was about our cat Rufus. In fact we left him with Ely's parents during our trip (3 weeks!) and he escaped from their balcony just after the first night. We knew about the escape just the first day we were in Tokyo and it was a shock to know him lost and alone somewhere around Ely's parents house, but because we left Ely's cellphone at home and on Rufy's collar there was a heart-shaped medallion with Ely's phone number, Ely's parents needed to know where the phone was, and so they called us as soon as they realized the cat wasn't hiding somewhere in the house, but escaped!! Despite all, we couldn't do much from such a distance, and begged my parents and Ely's parents to do as much as possible to find Rufus. We knew he is a shy and easy-to-scare cat and in fact he didn't show up until our return, despite it was made everything possible to find him during our absence. Fortunately, as soon as we arrived back home (and with the last strengths after 26 hours from when we left Tokyo until we arrived in Trento!!), we found him after some hours of searching. He was skinny and dehydrated but in general in good health (fortunately he was a pretty fatty cat!!!). Probably he heard our voices and recognized them in the silence of a 5 am morning. Rescue day - as we call it now - was Aug, 25th. He was so happy to be back at home and now all is back to normality (weight, cuddliness, vitality, curiosity...). I really don't know how we could have done without our little furry ball...it was such a relief to find him safe and sound.
Rufus, we love you!! And now - more than before - we know he loves us. ;)
