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Our pet rat Mitzi was getting old and sick and we spent a lot of time just chilling with her.
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T-minus 1-day before leaving to get married! We spent our last day in New York running all sorts of last minute errands for our trip. We cleaned the rat cage and made sure they had lots of fresh bedding.
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Haha. Meredith snuggled with a rat.
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Later that night, we bid the rats farewell...
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When I got back to our apartment that evening, Meredith was proudly showing off the huge, new, four-level rat cage she'd purchased earlier in the afternoon. We needed a bigger rat cage to make room for...
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Here's where we left off! Meredith in a cab smiling about picking up our two pet rats that Mandy was nice enough to look after for us while we took a month-long trip to the United Arab Emirates and then Thailand!

We spent Saturday afternoon getting settled back into our apartment. Meredith was jet-lagged and called it a night...
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We dropped off our bags and immediately went uptown to Mandy's apartment to pick up our two rat ladies that she was nice enough to take care of in our absence. (Thanks again, Mandy!)
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...and headed uptown to drop them off at her friend Mandy's house who'd graciously agreed to take care of our vermin while we were away.
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Meredith gave Ratso some loving and then...
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Cuddle Rat! (Meredith, you're a weird rat mom!)
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Here's Meredith showing off her "completed" costume after Mandy Mandy pinned-on the (sequined!) rat tail she'd made for Meredith!
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I was puttering around the apartment on Sunday and Meredith texted me to announce that she was coming home with "a surprise!" She walked in with a huge smile and a tiny box!
the september roundup
September, 2006