Pets in New Places

This next adventure I want to share with you was brought to you by a late paid electric bill. No, our power did not shut off… but I was 2 days late (how did it get to be August 2^nd?!) so we hustled down to The Bottom to pay it, and then decided to grab breakfast at a restaurant we had never been to before called The Bottom Bean. It’s more of a Coffee Shop or Café, but they had delicious breakfast sandwiches and burritos, and for a remarkably reasonable price considering they are here in Saba!

We sat down to eat and heard this high pitch noise! It sounded like a tropical bird but I hadn’t seen any on Saba yet and was a little confused….

Then we met Bella

She is the Café bird. Snug right in there, I’m assuming off of the kitchen. She was very friendly! The owner came and she gave him “kisses”. Sadie was so fascinated I couldn’t get her to eat anything! Sadie started bouncing up and down, and Bella started copying her! Then Bella moved side-to-side…over and over… until we did it. Haha and so it went. Up-and-down, side-to-side. I’m not sure whether the bird, or the kids liked the game more. When we said good-bye, belly raised her claw, and chirped “buh”.

(Sadie's face when the bird started playing the up-down game with us. haha. I think she was trying to figure out what it was, or what it was doing!)

This reminds me! I ought to share something many of my friends or family in The States have probably never seen. That’s Restaurant pets! As you can see one was Bella! Another Restaurant in Windward Side has a pet Dog. I don’t know dogs very well, but maybe it’s something like an English Cream Retriever or a Labrador Retriever? Very friendly dog. He/She does stay at the entrance of the dinning area and doesn’t actually come in. Which is probably why the black silky cat has taken home to inside of the seating area (safe from her doggy friend). She mostly stays under the tables, though one time she came to visit us and looked as though she was going to jump right in my lap… or the table.

The only other unusual place I am unaccustomed to seeing animals was the nursing home.  Apparently, there is a chicken that finds it a pleasure to meander through the open doors and windows, visiting each of the rooms in search for something to eat. One of the residents said they don’t mind, though they don’t like the trail of poop it leaves. The kids stopped mid-song to watch it walk through to common area. Hannah really wanted to catch it! I wish I had caught a picture!