I Love COVID!

 Oh, no, not really.  I don't love the virus.  But I do love what we're having to do because of the virus.

Like for instance, last week Mom and Dad decided to get out of town and go north.  (It's still a little hot in Scottsdale.  Actually, it's still a LOT hot in Scottsdale.)  So they found a hotel in Sedona that would let them take me!  Yay!!!

Mom said she talked to the people at Enchantment Resort in Sedona and they said that they were dog friendly.  But that meant that I could go and sleep in their room, but I couldn't go to eat with them at any of their restaurants.  Mom said that is the definition of NOT dog friendly.  

So we went to L'Auberge di Sedona.  In French, that means a "hostel in Sedona".  I'm not sure what they think is a hostel, but this was a lot better than any hostel I've heard of.  (At least that's what my Mom says.)  It was a beautiful place with a big cottage, just for the 3 of us.  And every morning I got to go with them for breakfast.  We sat right by Oak Creek.

We went hiking one day.  Along a trail called Bell Rock Trail.  I made Mom take a picture so you could see the Bell Rock.  Pretty cool, huh?

Another day we went driving around.  Mom had already secretly found a Dog Park for me.  So when we got close, Dad kinda had to agree to let me out.  It was great.  They even had a couple of those bathtubs that Mom says is really a swimming pool.  I hate to say it, but maybe she was right?  I took a flop in the pool just to be sure.  And it was just like a pool.  Hmmm.  I may have to rethink that thing back at home.

Then at night we got to go back to the Oak Creek for dinner.  And I got to go too!  I'm in heaven.

I know I should not like COVID.  And I DO feel bad about people getting sick.  But I've had a lot of extra attention and man do I love that!!!

Hope you are doing well in this awful virus era.  It will be over sometime.  I'm sure of it.

Love, G

Oh, no! The Worstest Dog Park in the World

 This week we went back to my favorite dog park.  You remember, the one with the fun lake in it.  Dad even came with us.  (Which wasn't maybe a good idea, as you will soon see.)

We rode the whole 47 minutes to get there.  And it was hot, hot, hot.  Even though we went in the morning when it wasn't as hot as it was going to get.  I was really looking forward to jumping in the lake with my friends.  And to showing Dad how fun it was.

When we got to the park, there were dogs running on the grassy parts, but oh, no! the lake was closed!  There was lots of water in it, but they wouldn't let us go in the water.  I was sooooo disappointed.  I tried to run with the other dogs on the grass, but it wasn't the same.  I just came back and sat with Mom and Dad in the shade.  What good is a park with a lake if you can't swim in the lake?  This is the worstest dog park in the world.

And Mom was a little nervous, 'cuz she'd dragged Dad all the way here and then we weren't going to stay very long because there was no lake to play in.  But Dad just said, "Oh, well, that's too bad."  Easy for him to say.  He couldn't swim in the lake anyway.  Only I could swim in the lake and I couldn't swim in the lake.  (Did that make sense?  Maybe that didn't make sense.)  But so we headed back to the car.

But then, Mom saved the day!  Good ol' Mom, she's always thinking.  See, not far from the car was a fire hydrant.  No, I didn't need to pee on the fire hydrant.  This was a really special fire hydrant.  It was open and flowing water into a little pool around the hydrant.  It was just big enough for me to do my Famous Signature Flop!

Here-this is the Signature Flop:

This is the flop that made all the California people laugh when I did it in the ocean.  I guess no one does a flop like this in the ocean.  Maybe there is a reason for that.  Probably because the waves come and drown my flop!

So all was not in vain.  But I hope the Worstest Park goes back to the Bestest Park soon.

Hope your bestest park stays bestest for you!

Love G

PS.  Mom has some good books for you.  She read, Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain about Beryl Markham.  She was a Horsewoman in Nairobe, the first woman aviator to cross the Atlantic, and an all around naughty girl.  She wrote about the same time and area as the author of Out of Africa, who was also  played a large part in her book.  Very interesting.

Then she liked "Brave Girl, Quiet Girl" by Catherine Ryan Hyde about a young runaway and a mother's love.  And another one by Catherine Hyde she liked was "Stay" about a bunch of misfit people who managed to all save each other by being misfits.  I liked "Stay" because it had a couple of dogs in it.

Love, G