Fun Weekend
In other news, we had an eventful weekend:
On Saturday we kind of went on a spending spree because Andy got a reimbursment check from going to San Francisco. We needed quite a few things since we've been holding off until some money came. We needed dog food, cat food, bird food, all kinds of light bulbs (got the energy efficient kind that last for 7 years), a weed eater (ours is broken and our landlord said we could buy one and he would take the price off of our rent), and gas for the lawn mower and weed eater.
Saturday night we went to the drive-in. It was our last weekend borrowing the van from the family at church, so we decided to take out all of the seats, put in coach cushions, a blanket and pillows and camp out to watch the movies. We also took Charley who loves to go and hang out at the drive-in (at least he seems to!). At the local drive-in it is $16.00 per car (which is still cheaper than the two of us going to the local regular theatre) which includes two movies. We saw Spiderman 3 and the first 45 minutes of Ghost Rider. Spiderman 3 was good but not as good as the others. They, of course, left it open to yet another sequel. I really gave Ghost Rider a chance but it was a poorly done movie with some really bad acting. Good luck another time Nicholas Cage.
On Sunday we woke up to a room full of eaten electric cords. Luckily none of them were plugged in when Kody, our newest addition, decided to teethe (sp?) on them. He killed our TV by chewing off the end of the power cord and also chewed up some connectors. It really isn't all his fault though. He is a 6 month old puppy in a room with no toys to chew on. While he should know better, I can't stay too mad at him for it. He was just being a puppy and puppies can be evil little beings.
Later Sunday afternoon we decided to take Charley and Kody to go swimming or wading. Charley loves to swim and Kody, as far as we know, has never been in water except for a bath tub. A lady I talked to at the dog park last week told us about a little park close by that isn't usually busy and has a little lake where she takes her dog swimming. We couldn't decide to go there or to our regular place (which is a little creek in a local park). We decided to go to the local one we knew. Unfortunately all the parking spots next to the creek had been taken and we couldn't find anywhere else even remotely close to park. So, we decided to try and find the park the lady had told us about.
We finally, due to Andy's great navigation skills, found the little park. When we got to the lake, which was nice and far from the road, we discovered that there was a little league game going on. Charley was too interested in the people across the little lake so we decided not to let him off the leash there for fear he might swim across and try to play fetch with the game ball. So we decided to try the local creek again, where we found one open parking space. I slipped on my aqua socks (which Andy reminded me were only cool in the early to mid 90s but I think are very practical for wading) and we took the dogs for their first swim of the season. Kody wasn't sure about the water at first. It wasn't until after Andy through him in that he decided he liked it. Charley got to go off leash (since it is away from the road and hiking trails) while Kody had to stay on the extended 16ft leash because we can't trust him yet. They both were soaked, gritty with sediment, tired and very very happy when we left. We took some pictures. I'll post them later.
Other than that I really don't have anything going on. Things are really slow at work and this week is finals week. Of course, that doesn't matter too much because I am taking classes over the summer too.
On Saturday we kind of went on a spending spree because Andy got a reimbursment check from going to San Francisco. We needed quite a few things since we've been holding off until some money came. We needed dog food, cat food, bird food, all kinds of light bulbs (got the energy efficient kind that last for 7 years), a weed eater (ours is broken and our landlord said we could buy one and he would take the price off of our rent), and gas for the lawn mower and weed eater.
Saturday night we went to the drive-in. It was our last weekend borrowing the van from the family at church, so we decided to take out all of the seats, put in coach cushions, a blanket and pillows and camp out to watch the movies. We also took Charley who loves to go and hang out at the drive-in (at least he seems to!). At the local drive-in it is $16.00 per car (which is still cheaper than the two of us going to the local regular theatre) which includes two movies. We saw Spiderman 3 and the first 45 minutes of Ghost Rider. Spiderman 3 was good but not as good as the others. They, of course, left it open to yet another sequel. I really gave Ghost Rider a chance but it was a poorly done movie with some really bad acting. Good luck another time Nicholas Cage.
On Sunday we woke up to a room full of eaten electric cords. Luckily none of them were plugged in when Kody, our newest addition, decided to teethe (sp?) on them. He killed our TV by chewing off the end of the power cord and also chewed up some connectors. It really isn't all his fault though. He is a 6 month old puppy in a room with no toys to chew on. While he should know better, I can't stay too mad at him for it. He was just being a puppy and puppies can be evil little beings.
Later Sunday afternoon we decided to take Charley and Kody to go swimming or wading. Charley loves to swim and Kody, as far as we know, has never been in water except for a bath tub. A lady I talked to at the dog park last week told us about a little park close by that isn't usually busy and has a little lake where she takes her dog swimming. We couldn't decide to go there or to our regular place (which is a little creek in a local park). We decided to go to the local one we knew. Unfortunately all the parking spots next to the creek had been taken and we couldn't find anywhere else even remotely close to park. So, we decided to try and find the park the lady had told us about.
We finally, due to Andy's great navigation skills, found the little park. When we got to the lake, which was nice and far from the road, we discovered that there was a little league game going on. Charley was too interested in the people across the little lake so we decided not to let him off the leash there for fear he might swim across and try to play fetch with the game ball. So we decided to try the local creek again, where we found one open parking space. I slipped on my aqua socks (which Andy reminded me were only cool in the early to mid 90s but I think are very practical for wading) and we took the dogs for their first swim of the season. Kody wasn't sure about the water at first. It wasn't until after Andy through him in that he decided he liked it. Charley got to go off leash (since it is away from the road and hiking trails) while Kody had to stay on the extended 16ft leash because we can't trust him yet. They both were soaked, gritty with sediment, tired and very very happy when we left. We took some pictures. I'll post them later.
Other than that I really don't have anything going on. Things are really slow at work and this week is finals week. Of course, that doesn't matter too much because I am taking classes over the summer too.