The balloon eventually deflated, but box after box arrived from online purchases and with gifts from our family. And everyone knows that boxes are more interesting than the things that originally came in them!
Looking at this next series of photos I can't believe that Chester was originally an "only cat". The two of them have turned out to be such a fantastic pair!
Every once in a while they each seem to "disappear." It sometimes takes careful searching of each room to find which crack they've managed to wriggle themselves into!