Frankenkatzen

Poor Lucky had surgery last week.

They removed all of his teeth except the four canines.

And he had an abscess on the back of his neck, so they had to remove that, too.

Here's a shot of Lucky's stitches... I can sew better than that!

Now his new nickname is Frankenkatzen.

Here is Lucky relaxing on the balcony.

Ávila

Chris (roommate), Oscar (best friend of Chris), Johanne (Belgian), and I all took the Renfe train to Ávila last month.  Apparently, the town is famous for it's muralla (wall), cathedral, and egg yolk desserts!  "Yemas" means egg yolk and here are my travel buddies outside of a candy store.

Here we are at the muralla.  

patient zero.

 

An older lady sat with us at this site and chatted us up about her hometown, Ávila.  Apparently, if we had visited last fall we would have seen a 300 year old tree... now it had to be cut down because of a disease.  I did like the building though.  

Just hangin' around Ávila with the girls.

The castle look inspired this shot.