Welcome back! Although I doubt you're delighted to be deposited in sweltering hell. Your trip sounds like so much fun. *wistful* I have no money to travel, so I live vicariously through my friends' descriptions of their sojourns and shenanigans. So please, if you have more pics, post them for those following along at home!

Yay for a happy resolution of the kitten dilemma! Including visiting rights.

As for recs, I did a stint last month at crack_van, and most of the recs were drawn from this past year and focused on unusual pairings. Unusual for me, that is. Only one Snarry in the lot, a 'ship favorite I would be shocked to hear you hadn't read yet. But you might have missed the others. The list starts here (http://crack-van.livejournal.com/tag/harry%20potter).