Meet some of our Melbourne housemates

One of the perks of where we are currently staying in Melbourne is that this house comes with some pretty awesome housemates. Meet three of our favorites so far: Isis, Loki, and Oreo. That's right, we have 3 very friendly cats as housemates. 

Left to right: Isis, Loki, Oreo

Most of the time all three cats just do there own thing, as cats so often do, not including us humans in their leisurely activities. But usually a couple times a day each cat will grace us with some attention. 

Oreo hangs out in our room sometimes. For instance this morning she was meowing outside our room, so I let her in and she cuddled up on my lap as I petted her. She also sometimes likes to hide under our bed or in our closet. We have to do our best to keep the closet door shut so that we can avoid any surprises in the middle of the night.

Oreo the cuddle bug.

Loki is the friendliest of the bunch, but he especially tends to be our best friend whenever we're cooking. There is a stool he'll jump up on to make sure we see him, so we put it in the center of the kitchen so he's amidst the activity but out of the way. But if he gets too crazy we have to sadly put him outside so we can actually finish cooking. Loki so far has been Katie's favorite, I think due to his kitchen-side companionship. 

Loki in his usual spot whenever we're cooking.

And then there's Isis. Quite the name, eh? Our host said she named her before the terrorist group existed. But the correlation in name does add some humor to our time here. Before we left my mom being the worrying but protective type wanted to make sure we were of aware of some of the more prevalent dangers going in the world. The main one being the activities of ISIS. I reassured her we were well aware of that group as well as other traveling dangers and that the likelihood of running into ISIS or any other problems given the places we were traveling was so small that it was not worth worrying about. Ironically I was wrong. We did meet Isis... the cat. Luckily Isis the cat has no malicious intent as far we know. She is the most independent of the cats, but she will still let us pet her on occasion. 

The surprisingly friendly face of Isis.