{23sept2010: camping and anniversary}

More camping pictures!  If you missed the first half of camping, check it out here.
On Thursday our other friends came out and joined us with their 8month old baby girl for her first camping trip.
Darwin had to check her out.


They also brought their dogs Torch and Oso.
Torch

The baby was an amazing camper.  She enjoyed the dogs, the fire, the people, the tents.  But I don't know if she enjoyed the outdoors as much as Darwin did who sucked it all up as much as she could.



Darwin enjoyed camping so much that on Friday when it was time to pack up and go (we had to get home before Saturday morning college football kickoff) she did not want to leave.  As everyone packed up the cars and was ready to go, we found Darwin laying in the dirt at the campsite holding her ground.  We got her up and let her take one last drink from the lake before corralling her into the car.

As much energy as she had trying to stay at the campsite, she was also that tired and kept falling asleep in the car.

The drive down the mountain we had an even better view of Mount Rainer.


On our way home we stopped to get breakfast at a great little place in Black Diamond and I also got Darwin her first ice cream cone to make up for pulling her away from camping.



And that was our last camping trip of the year.  Hopefully we'll get more in next year.

On a completely unrelated note, one year ago today we started this blog for Darwin, all thanks to our first blog buddy, Moose!

To celebrate I thought we should pass on a book we won from Stella, which if you remember is written by the holistic vet we are now taking Darwin to.

It's an interesting read about holistic medicine/treatment for animals, especially if you don't know much about it.  

If you want to be in the drawing for the book let us know in a comment and we'll pick a name this weekend!

{17feb2010: Moose}

After Twinkie's visit to the PNW we decided maybe Moose needed to come up for a visit from the Florida Keys, afterall (I think his name is)Clive could be his long lost relative.
When he first showed up at the park, I think he thought we were going to a costume party because this is what he looked like:

Or maybe his mom just thought he'd be cold coming up from sunny Florida to rainy Seattle and this was the warmest thing Moose had on hand.
Poor guy.  We quickly got him out of his outfit so he could go run with (I think his name is)Clive and Darwin.
He quickly went up to (I think his name is)Clive to see how he sized up next to a real dane/lab mix to see if maybe he has some dane in him.

While Moose is a tall guy, I don't think he was quite as tall as Darwin and (I think his name is)Clive.  
Once that was settled it was time to play some ball. Luckily Moose brought his own ball to play with.

No matter how much he tried the other two to play with him though they were too obsessed with (I think his name is)Clive's green cuz. 

Moose was starting to miss his mom and the warmth of Florida, so we packed him up, costume and all, and got him on the first flight back on Pet Airways.
It was a super quick visit so we'll have to plan for another one in the future!