Cat Lady

An old friend of mine and I had a joke that if she didn't end up married, she would probably live as a cat lady, with lots of cats. I called her the other day and we laughed that I actually will be a cat lady, of a different kind, of course. =)

Case in point: dragging my family out of our warm and cozy home into a huge crazy storm to go look at a catamaran that had just tied up at the marina. No joke, the news called this storm an "atmospheric river", with two weeks of just rain!

It all started from a friend's post on Facebook this afternoon. She was out for a walk and snapped a photo of the impending storm with the marina in the background. Normally, one scrolls leisurely past all those posts on the news-feed, however, I stopped for one reason, which was naturally to see if I could spot our boat, The Soggy Dollar, in the pic. It was then, I noticed the distinguishable hulls of a catamaran. "Jared", I called out, "Let's go down to the boat. There's a cat tied up the next dock over".

"Sure, we need to get out of the house anyway", was his reply.  Note: he'd been home all day with the kids while I had a meeting at the aquarium, so he was very happy to go for a drive, even if it meant braving the storm.

We dragged the kids from the house, and yes, they complained all the way from the couch where they were comfy watching a movie, to the car. Sunny, our pup, heard the word "boat" and ran to the door. She loves sailing and knows that "boat" means fun out on the water.

Off we went and bundled up against the wind and light sprinkles. We checked on our boat as well, just to make sure things were all ship-shape. She was just dandy as ever, chillin' in her slip. Sunny made for the steps to board the boat, and did not seem happy with me when I called her back. This dog seriously loves to sail. In all good time, sweet pup!

We walked to the end of our dock and there was the behemoth catamaran. Seriously, this thing was about 20 feet tall! It turned out to be a commercial power-cat and not the sailing cat I was hoping for. Oh well. Now one might question my initial excitement. Why care so much about going to see a catamaran? The plain and simple fact that there are hardly ANY cats on the West coast. There are a couple up in the bay area and then a couple more down south, that's it. Not many opportunities for boat shopping or even taking one out for a sail.

Since we are in the market for a catamaran, any opportunity to check one out is golden. We are counting down the days until we go to Florida for a few full days of boat shopping, where there are plenty of catamarans around. A few more days and we are off!

At the time I finished up this post, the storm is hitting us full force! Raindrops pounding, wind howling... grateful for the rain, as our poor state needs it desperately! And the kids are back on the couch resuming their movie. ;)