Yes, I have been here before. In fact when ‘Kaika found me he said, “Are you in Petersburg, Alaska, at the end of the road again?” And yep–that’s where I was.  At least this time you guys had a clue!

Eric and Flynn had a sense of deja vu–and they were right.  The Woman realized after she put this up that I had been here before.  It’s not like there aren’t thousands of other places and my friends, Pixel and Samba have told me about lots of them, that I can’t go elsewhere!  The Woman is a lazy travel agent with a poor memory!  Even Whitey  who is all buggery (but getting better–seriously), remembered!

Cory sounds like she would get lost as well as I do as she remembered the photo but couldn’t remember where I was.  Maybe there should be a Find Cory post?

So there I was, exploring the world that Pixel and Samba recommended.  I was quite comfy in the lap of Neptune and along comes Truffle and Bruleeand immediately they say, “We think you traveled across the pond for this one, Chey. Are you resting on the Neptune Statue in Versailles Gardens in France?  Truffle and Brulee”

Now Pixel and Samba were impressed because their humans took the shot of Neptune and didn’t know if he had a name or not!  But yes, I was in Versailles.  I mean, where else would I feel so at home?   I decided to hop down to the Chans who said, “Hey Chey! come over and play. We think you’re only about one and a half hours away from our house, in the gardens of Versailles!” So it was a grand weekend over all!

Now how can I get the Woman to purchase Versailles for me?

Well I didn’t have far to go and everyone really seemed to know where I was.  I was pretty impressed.  Pixel and Samba were the first to be there (and are showing off how happy I am to have everyone find me).  They said, “Are you home?”

Several cats noticed that the house is painted in Meezer  Colors.  And well it should be.  The Woman didn’t realize that until it was pointed out. Until then she was bummed that she did not get a green and brown house as those were the colors she liked the best.  Unfortunately the builder had the community planned and we did not get to pick what colors went on the outside of the house.  Right now the Woman isn’t sure why as it seems that the designer for this subdivision likes brown brown and more brown.  Not one house has the nice green from the subdivision next door (same builder and finishing as ours started–but it had no more lots for the floor plan we liked.)

We do like that the house faces north/northeast.  This means that we will have lots of bright light in the back yard for planting a garden.  It probably won’t be much this year as there is some structural stuff the humans want to do but next year I bet we can go wild with veggies. I might even try growing broccoli for my friend Roxy!

Also, when the Woman is in the living room in the back and in the master bedroom in the back you can see the sunsets over the valley because we are up high enough.  Also the angle of our house looks between the houses in the subdivision behind us so our view is pretty unobstructed.  Now if only we get some birds back around here so I have something to look at!

Derby and Ducky wondered why the cars weren’t in the garage.  Because the humans haven’t even organized the house much less started on the garage!  Probably by summer they will get the cars in the garage.  There is a workbench that needs to be built and some ceiling racks that the Male wants to get up before he starts putting the cars inside.  Then he can arrange to his hearts content.

It was a tough one this week.  I wasn’t anywhere famous, but with help from Cory, who managed to locate the state and perhaps a human who is spending too much time on Facebook, Laila and Minchie managed to puzzle this one out.  They said, “Chey, are you at the North Bend, WA public library?”  Why indeed I was.  This is actually the old facade and they just finished re-doing the outside.  This was last summer before we started all the moves.  Notice the sunshine?

Anyway, we don’t get up there too much any more but who knows?  Duvall has a library too!  And that’s very close to us!  And the sun might shine again… and I know that always fools you when I’m in the Seattle area and there’s sun…

The Woman may actually take a few photos around here if the sun ever shows up again. You know she’s dying to take that new camera outside–er farther than the end of the driveway to show the house in snow…

Pixel and Samba suggested a lovely place for me to visit.  Their humans have great places to go.  I liked it and thought it would be a fun place and perhaps one to perplex, but no Jasper McKitten came by and got it right away! I was very excited.  It was rather cold there and kinda wet.

Jasper said, “I know one! It’s the Swarovski Face Fountain in Wattens, Austria at the Swarovski crystal factory. What a cool place. I hope you had a good trip!”

I was quite excited that he found me.  Cody and Grace  also had an idea but they said they were moments too late–and they were right!  Domino, Merlin and friends also came by and said they knew it! Not too many other cats were there to guess.  Of course I wasn’t around to egg cats on.  We had no power from about an hour after I posted until late last night.  I was worried I would have to send a note via Facebook to other bloggers to let folks know why I wasn’t blogging.  But we got power back.

We were lucky. Some folks up the valley from us won’t have power until Monday.  That’s a long cold time for that!  Now all we need to worry about is flooding because now that it’s raining after all that snow, we might look a bit like that guy spitting water out of his mouth!  Winter in the Pacific Northwest can be fun sometimes.  We are not on a flood plain but the easiest and fastest way to civilization is through one, so traffic will be nasty when that floods.

Oh and the photo, not Jasper. It’s his friend Huggy Bear.  I really think he needs to get his humans to sort out their priorities.  There were no recent photos of him playing on the front of his blog…

While I was enjoying my ribs, thinking that by the time I was done someone would find me, in pop Truffle and Brulee.  They said, “We now think with a little investigating, that you are in Asheville, North Carolina at the 12 Bones Smokehouse! Did we get it? Did we get it?”

Yes you smart little girls did get it!  And before I had finished dinner.  I hope you liked your portions.  The people at 12 Bones were quite nice to me.  I waited in line like a good cat and whipped out the Woman’s credit card and bought myself five or six dinners.   It was delicious.

Really, 12 Bones is known as one of Asheville’s best places for BBQ.  And no one does BBQ like a Southerner!

Camie’s Kitties, Maobert, Dante and company, and the Cats of the Wildcat woods all found me.  And you know what?  The Wildwood Cats’ daddy works there!  How cool is that?  I never ended up visiting someone’s work place before!

Cory, I ordered the hush puppies to be cute instead of the fries… And now let’s head on down to Truffle and Brulee’s to have a quick little party before heading off to our own homes!  They’re just a few hours away!

So there I was out in the cold.  Cory said, “Hmmmm, I have no idea…but I think that sea plane will come in handy for me when I want to go on my next cheese tour of the world!!! Can I borrow it?? So as long as I’m here, I’ll take a guess that you are somewhere in Alaska.”

And so I was.  Eric and Flynn found me saying, “Well we can tell you who owns the plane but we better not put it on here, and he lives in Moose Pass Alaska so we think it must be close to there.”

Victor and Nina came by and guessed and guessed and guessed but did not get the correct Alaskan place.  I think he gets points for sure endurance when trying to find me.  I am also impressed with the fact that Eric and Flynn found that pilot. I wonder if he’ll fly me home?  Never mind.  I hate traveling…

So several boy groups came by.  First Derby and Ducky came by and said, “Goodness, we are first again and we might have a clue. You are showing everyone how well you can climb the rock wall on one of the Royal Carribbean cruise ship. Can’t tell for sure which one just from this picture. You are doing a good job, nice stretches between the paw holds.”

Of course, that could mean anywhere because Royal Caribbean sails a lot of places.  Eric and Flynn came by and said, “Vancouver Canada” .  They came back to say, “Our mum thought it looked similar to one of the ports they stopped at on their Alaska cruise a few years ago. It’s certainly not any of the places on route so she thought it might be at the beginning Seattle which it wasn’t, or where they finished in Vancouver (Canada Place) BC.”

And yes, that was in the background.  So good for them! And it gets them a photo up on the blog! Woo Hoo!  I bet they couldn’t do it without Ducky and Derby!

Pixel and Samba were by checking out and trying to figure out exactly which ship it was, but alas we are not certain any longer (the Woman has NO memory!)  We think it was Radiance of the Seas.

Well I tried to fool you all a little bit, but you weren’t going to be fooled!  Pixel and Samba came right over and found me.  They said first, “you are on the freedom trail. Are you at mother gooses grave ? Granary burial ground?” but then they said, “SO I am half right you are at paul reveres grave. Not mother gooses but it is the same place. Same graveyard. On the freedom trail.” And they were right on the second one.

Eric and Flynn said, “Our Humans saw Paul Revere’s grave in the Granary Burial Ground when they were in Boston. No need for google today”

Simba said, “Paul Revere’s tombstone, in Boston? We see we have been beaten to it!”

Dante and friends said, “You are at the Granary Burying Ground in downtown Boston. For once this was fairly easy.”

This was all thanks to Cory Cat who showed me this cool place to hang out.  We cats are all about Freedom!  The Katnip Lounge Kitties said, “The kibbles are coming! The kibbles are coming!”  But I think Cory was saying “The cheese nips are coming!  The Cheese nips are coming!”

Well it took a little bit and a hint, and Cody and Gracie came by and said, “We can’t figure out the name of the statue, but we think you are on the corner of Northeast Sandy Blvd and I-30 in Portland, Or. You are near the Jim Dandy Drive-in Restaurant (we think). Cody and Gracie”

Pretty close you two.  Eric and Flynn also came by and said, “We are stumped! We have googled areas just East of Portland but haven’t been able to come up with anything. We will try and persuade mum to keep trying. Maybe you could ask the man in the middle of the road for directions.”

Then they said, “Found it!!! (we think)As Joe Rossi and friends dedicated the long-anticipated Portland Immigrant Statue at the traffic island at the intersection of Northeast 99th Avenue, Sandy Boulevard and Killingsworth Street on October 1, the message was that it symbolized not the Rossi clan (some have speculated it is a statue of Rossi’s great-grandfather, which Rossi has consistently denied), but our common heritage.” And they were very right on that one.

Finally, based on a comment I made that the statue was a little bit east of Cory Cat, they said, “We saw that when people living in Portland say East etc, they mean the actual east of the city not towards the east and googling East Portland made all the difference from looking at places east of Portland. Does that make sense? We know what we mean.”

It’s true up in Seattle too.  East means east of Lake Washington but typically West of the mountains.  East of the Mountains is either East of the Mountains or Eastern Washington.  If you mean New York you say back east.  Even Ohio is back east.  Some people even refer to Chicago as “back east.”  East however, typically means Bellevue and it’s environs.

Portland is much the same–east means anything east of downtown Portland  but typically west of the mountains.  East of the mountains is Eastern Oregon.  For other cities, see Washington’s definitions…

I guess that’s what happens when pretty much EVERYTHING is east…In fact the FAR EAST is really just a little bit west of us.  As for Cory’s comment about Idaho–I’m not sure where that is.  It’s somewhere east of  Eastern Washington…