Cat Café

I wasn't sure what to make of that at first. Easily I thought of civet coffee. Ah! What if worse? Being in Korea, it wouldn't take much for one to imagine being served a feline caffeinated drink. Neither of those were true as I later found out. The Cat Café in Myeong-dong has over 20 cats to take pictures of, to pet, to feed, to play with and hang out with. They serve coffee- latté, cappuccino, mocha, regular things like that (thank goodness!)- which comes free with the 8,000 KRW you pay to enter (I pay 5000 KRW for Stan too, kids over 36 months are charged; he gets a free orange juice or tea). They don't really serve food there as they don't want the cats to go haywire. Instead they give you some little jelly cups that have cat food in them (which I almost gave to Oliver thinking it was jell-o!) that you can feed to the tabbies. Except for those who are accoutremented with pink ribbons around their necks. These ones are on a diet. Cute! (I need a pink ribbon myself!) As much as I don't believe in clichés, sometimes I defer to one, "curiosity kills a cat", indeed. While my sons are having a ball, I am all the while petrified. You know how dog lovers claim they hate cats? Well I am in a different level altogether. I am appalled by cats as I am by vermin. And yet there I am in a café full of toms, sipping my coffee with feigned composure until this hairless cat lands suddenly and yet gracefully on my table. It is called the Sphinx Cat. And alas! It is no less than one of the ugliest animals in the world! http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/pets/galleries/the_worlds_ugliest_animals_/the_worlds_ugliest_animals_.html. Sometimes my days are uneventful, but sometimes I get myself into unexpected thrills like that. Not bad for 8,000Won! You will have a blast if you happen to like cats.