Yes....Jeannie and I are headed to Munich for Oktoberfest (among other things). We leave at O-dark-thirty Wednesday morning. We Fly from LAX to Boston and then will spend Thursday and Friday there, which we did to break-up the fight so we didn't have to fly all the way to Germany from Los Angeles in one long swoop (not even sure how long that would be in the air...15 hours or so I'd guess)...in coach. I'm hoping we get upgraded to at least Economy Plus on the overseas leg as we are flying United, and I'm Premier Gold frequent flyer w/ them. But you never know...IF we don't get upgraded it will be a long horrible flight. I think we're with Delta on the LAX to Boston flight...I have no miles with them so we will suffer in coach...but that's only about 5 hours and we'll survive.
We're both getting pretty excited about this trip...it's been a LONG time coming. Jeannie's twin brother John is coming with Peggy, and he will be our tour-guide as he's done Oktoberfest many times. Me, I don't speak any German other than Ya and Nein. I know Jeannie has a folder of stuff for us to do throughout, so we won't be just sitting around idle...as for me, for the most part I'm just going along as a tourist, doing whatever she wants to do.
In Boston I want to tour the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)...that's about the only thing I have on MY to-do list. And I think Jeannie said she wants to walk the entire "Freedom Trail", and also we'll go have a beer in the original Cheers bar. If we had more time we'd get up to Salem for a day...but I doubt that will happen this trip.
Take care and stay cool! And for everybody EXCEPT California...stay dry. We do nothing but stay dry here sadly. They can start working on the water-pipeline from everywhere that's NOT California to here any time now...seems everybody but us has more water than they know what to do with.
OK. That's about it for now...I'll be posting updates as we go (I
hope) as I'm bringing my laptop. I hope to have lots of pictures and
stories.
Later gaters!
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Monday, August 31, 2015
Happy Birthday Sophie!
Yep...our little girl is now ONE YEAR OLD!
She has seemingly stopped growing, weighing in at 54lbs. She's smaller than either PG or Sweet Pea, but outweighs them both. She's built like a block of granite, and I guess that's what all bull-dogs are like. Thankfully she's on the smaller side of what she could have been (they told us 55 to 65lbs for an Old English Bull female). 54 is PLENTY big!
She's still a puppy though in all respects...she's got that nuclear power-supply going for her as she almost never gets tired...and then only for short periods of time (she will take a time-out from playing and lay flat out on the tile floor for a few minutes, then before you know it she's back in action antagonizing PG and/or Sweet Pea). In a way it's sad for her...she's a young pup and living in a dogie-geriactric home. PG and Sweet Pea are both near 14 now (PG we know for sure, and Sweet Pea could be older or younger, though we both believe it's likely older).
Jeannie made a doggie-cake over the weekend...using carrots, honey and peanut-butter. Of course, all the babies will share in the cake later this evening. Here she is with Jeannie and her cake (I took a bunch of shots, can't decide which one I like best, so here they ALL are):
Look at how GINORMOUS that tongue is! No WONDER that most of the time it's sticking out of her mouth...I don't think there's room for it all! (seriously).
And so....our little girl is growing up FAST! Can't believe we'll have had her a year in Dec! Gosh how time flies!
She has seemingly stopped growing, weighing in at 54lbs. She's smaller than either PG or Sweet Pea, but outweighs them both. She's built like a block of granite, and I guess that's what all bull-dogs are like. Thankfully she's on the smaller side of what she could have been (they told us 55 to 65lbs for an Old English Bull female). 54 is PLENTY big!
She's still a puppy though in all respects...she's got that nuclear power-supply going for her as she almost never gets tired...and then only for short periods of time (she will take a time-out from playing and lay flat out on the tile floor for a few minutes, then before you know it she's back in action antagonizing PG and/or Sweet Pea). In a way it's sad for her...she's a young pup and living in a dogie-geriactric home. PG and Sweet Pea are both near 14 now (PG we know for sure, and Sweet Pea could be older or younger, though we both believe it's likely older).
Jeannie made a doggie-cake over the weekend...using carrots, honey and peanut-butter. Of course, all the babies will share in the cake later this evening. Here she is with Jeannie and her cake (I took a bunch of shots, can't decide which one I like best, so here they ALL are):
I will tell you the hat was interesting...as well as getting her up there on the
couch by herself for more than a moment.
And here's a few shots from this last weekend over at our park...we took all the babies for a walk and Sophie likes to play "fetch the tennis ball". Too bad she's not very good at giving me the ball back to throw again...we're still working on that part. She runs pretty fast for a little block of granite!
And so....our little girl is growing up FAST! Can't believe we'll have had her a year in Dec! Gosh how time flies!
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