Adventures of a Dog Park

Our weekend was great overall. We were having our open house at work Thursday night -Saturday morning. I took Eric with me Friday night to the dinner and we had a pretty good time. The food was much better than Friday's lunch, too. Thank goodness! I was exhausted, so I pretty much went to bed when we got home. Plus I had to get up and work Saturday from 8:30-11:30 am. Eric's parents arrived shortly after noon. We had planned on moving the fish tank Saturday so we could get our new kitchen table and chairs in the kitchen. However, my wonderful husband had graciously got bored on Friday and moved it already. It was nice b/c we just had to move the old table out and the new one in. The table is perfect. We don't have that big of dining room and the table we had before was round. Thankfully this one is oblong and it works much better. Anyway, after getting that all set up, we grabbed lunch then did a little shopping. By the time we got home it was evening and Eric's parents headed home. I cleaned up the table and chairs while he watched the games on TV.

Yesterday we got up and Eric started burning the sticks we have piled in the yard and put some fertilizer out for the magnolia tree and lilac bush. I didn't get up and around as fast as he did. Around 11:30 we headed out with Godiva. First stop, Pet Smart. This was her first experience out and about. You would have thought we were taking her back to where we got her. She acted like a big baby w/ big sad eyes like "don't take me back". Poor thing. Anyway, Eric had her while I was exchanging something and she goes and poops right there at the front door. I think she literally got the shit shared out of her! ;) Eric cleaned the poop up and then took her outside in case she needed to go anymore. After they came back in, Godiva acted fine and apparently thought she was the new manager. She jumped up on the window where you see dogs getting groomed and checked to make sure it was going ok in there. Then she sorta pranced around like she was hot shit. ha ha ha Next stop, dog park. We saw a sign on the window of Starbuck's the other day about a dog park and decided to take Godiva there in hopes of getting her some social skills. We had scoped it out on Saturday and it was really in a dumpy part of town, so we weren't sure how it was going to go over, now how Godiva was going to do there. She was so overwhelmed when we got there. She was so scared. Maybe her parents were a little bit, too. Anyway, while Eric was registering her she was trying to back away from the other dogs and ended up slipping out of her collar. She didn't run though. So after she got registered we went inside. We were nervous about taking her leash off, but we finally did and she just ran and played and had a ball! It was so cute! She would chase other dogs and they would chase her. She wasn't very fond of other dogs smelling her butt (not that I blame her), but she got used to it. It was funny b/c she would run up to the dogs that were playing catch with their owners and chase after the ball or frisbee like she was going to get it then just run past. It was in a fenced in ball field. They had little games/obstacles set up in the in-field, but she liked to be in the outfield away from the chaos apparently. After about an hour she was exhausted and hung around us, which we decided was our sign to head home. We had a few errands to run w/out Godiva so we dropped her off and headed back out to get groceries. When we got back home we worked out in the yard for a while, then took a nice walk around the neighborhood. It was a fantastic weekend overall.