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Another photo from Kattenstoet!!

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After 22 hours of traveling, I made it to Ieper/Ypres, Belgium for Kattenstoet! This is a festival that typically happens every 3 years but, due to Covid, was postponed 3 years ago and hasn't happened in 6 years!! The festival drew more than 50,000 tourists, which is actually more inhabitants than the city. The parade was over 3 hours long and features so many great floats involving both cats and the history of the city. A surreal and magical weekend!

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Cat People are my favorite kind of people. They are my people. We speak the common language of "MEOW!" Cat people are the best people. You could have nothing else in common with them except cats and that alone can keep you talking for hours and hours. Cat people are distinctive, intelligent, compassionate, and creative. If you are a cat person, we can probably be friends. If you don't like cats, what's wrong with you?!?!?!

I snapped this shot right before the start of Kattenstoet and I tend to particularly enjoy photographing people looking out of windows at the world below for some reason so combined with the event and the fact that the restaurant is named Catpeople, I was very happy in this moment to take this photo. Happy cats are the best cats and a Happy Kirstiecat is something you might imagine is quite enchanting when it occurs.


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