12 Hours of Freedom: The Best Day of My Life

I'm not talking about my freedom. I'm talking about Andrew's hamster Ocoke's freedom.  Before describing Ocoke's day I must state that I shamelessly stole the title of this post from a Facebook comment by Aimee.  So with that out of the way on to Ocoke and his freedom.

Ocoke

The boys received hamsters as Christmas gifts in 2010 and since then there have been 3 "escapes" (1 by Ocoke and 2 by Ollie - Alex's hamster).  Escape is in quotes because this last time was not actually an escape it was simply Ocoke getting lucky.  Before school Andrew took Ocoke out to play with him and then left the room assuming that Alex would watch him.  Since the TV was on there was no chance that Alex would see anything except for the TV.  When Andrew returned he realized Ocoke was gone and the hunt was on.  Unfortunately they weren't able to find him in the short time they had to search before it was time to go to school so the hunt would have to resume after school.

When I got home after work I didn't know yet that Ocoke was on the run.  Dinner was ready when I walked in the door (it was actually ready 30 minutes before but that's another story) so we first ate dinner and then afterwards I helped with the hunt.  We eventually found Ocoke hiding in our bedroom but only after looking in and under everything in the bonus room, Olivia's room and the boys' room (the rooms with the most stuff to hide under).

Ocoke was free for roughly 12 hours which is the longest any of the escapees has ever tasted freedom.  I expect Ollie to try to top that in the near future.  Perhaps they have a little competition going on now.

Ollie