REMEMBERING A FUN TRIP.....

What do you do when you want to go on a holiday and can’t see any chance of one in the near future?

We Labra-Dawgs don’t sulk. We are like forever happy! So keeping in tune with our character, we decided the best thing to do would be to reminisce about one we enjoyed earlier.
When I say we I mean me- Ginger, Mummy and Daddy. Buddy hadn’t yet come to live with us when we went on this trip I want to tell you about.
This holiday was really special for me, because I saw the Sea for the very first time.
We live pretty far away from the coastline and though we all love water, it isn’t possible for us to go on these trips frequently.
So this trip was extra special.

It was morning when we reached our beach. We had been travelling all night and were pretty tired. So when Mummy said ‘We are here, Gin-gin’, I was relieved.
‘Oh, Thank dog, I can catch up on my sleep now’, I thought. My eyelids were drooping!
But as soon as she let me down from the car, I could smell something very different in the air.

Sniff, sniff….SNIFF.

I was super excited now, I’d never smelt something like this. So many pee-mails, all so different! And what is with the ground? Sand and sand and more sand everywhere. My paws sank in and I made Mummy laugh because I was walking funny!
And then I saw it….that vast stretch of water, gurgling and whoosing, and the never ending sand for miles!

I rushed in, all wobbly and funny till suddenly this huge wave came rolling towards me.
My Gosh! I stepped back, a little scared.

The sand now felt firmer, the water cold and I tested it marching up and down along the waterline. Mummy and Daddy found all this rather funny.

Daddy went straight to the sea, beckoning me to follow him.
'What? You are not even going to change? What about breakfast? And can’t you see how tired and sleep-deprived I am?'
But no amount of doleful pleading could cover up my apprehension.
And can you believe it?
Daddy actually carried me, a labradudette, and jumped into the sea!!!
‘The indignity’, I thought, wriggling, protesting!

(Swimming lessons in the sea)

But then, the moment we hit the water, my apprehension was gone.
And I discovered what the sea was all about.
We had friends with us. Mummy and Daddy’s human friends and their Labradude Mogli and Labradudette Krazy.
Krazy and Mogli had been to the sea earlier and were used to the waves. They too helped me get over my trepidation.
As the hours passed, I slowly understood why Mummy loves the sea so much.
We had fun- running in the sand, digging for shells, finding crabs and watching the fisherman bringing in their boats full of freshly caught fish.

(Krazy and Me)

(Cooling off with daddy)

(Crabs!!)

(Ice-cream break)

(Racing Mummy!)

(I won!)

(Finally!Lounging...watchin the sea)

(Who's browner? Didn't know a Labradudette can get tanned!)

(See that pile on the left? That is just ONE fishing net!)

(The fishermen,hauling in their boat)

In the evening, we took long walks on the shore, testing the water bare-paw, feeling the cool breeze and taking in the soothing sound of the waves rolling.

(Dusk...)

The sea brings out the poet in you, makes you feel in tune with nature. But since I am no good at poetry, I need to borrow someone else’s words to tell you what I could feel.

‘I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by’.
-John Masefield

It was too short a trip, if you ask me. Just two days. Mummy says we will go back, this time with Buddy. The athelete that he is, he sure would love to run on the beach and swim against the waves.

**Touche**

Wags,

A simple Sunday Evening

Hi Friends,


Hope you had a Grrrt weekend. We had a quiet Sunday here. It was very hot the whole day, almost touching 42 degrees centigrade!! So, after a quick walk none of us were willing to venture out. We enjoyed a LOOONNGG afternoon siesta.

We think Mummy would have slept longer, only the phone rang and she started talking.

Now, sleeping and talking over phone are two things mummy does to perfection!!
She won’t wake up till we lick her awake and she won’t stop chatting till Daddy calls for her!

Today of course she couldn’t talk for long. It was my friend Rick’s Mom telling Mummy that they were about to leave India for their home in Boston. Rick is the youngest friend we have. Here are some of his pictures from when he came visiting.

It’s fun playing with him. But we have to be gentle with him. He is just a baby still!! Hope he grows up fast so he can take us out for walks when he comes visiting again.

In the evening, when it was a little cooler, we went to get some groceries and stuff with Mummy and Daddy. But it wasn’t much fun. There were a lot of kids and people around and many of them were pretty scared of us both because we are big dawgs.

Can you imagine that? Scared of us? Come on people! We are Labradawgs; can’t you see how Pawdorable we are?
Besides, Mummy says it is a good thing we are big. There is more of us to hug!

Anyway, we decided to stay in the car with Daddy while Mummy went to get the things.

Suddenly, Buddy started woofing loudly. Daddy went to find what it was that he had seen. And after a few seconds, he came back holding a tiny little Puppy girl! She was a Pug named Casie.

We tried to lick her nose and say Hello but the poor little thing was shaking so hard. She was scared! Even her Hooman was scared of us! Oh DOG, why is everybody scared of us? How rude.

Soon, Mummy was back with a handful of bags. We saw her at a distance and she waved to us. So she hadn’t seen Casie yet.

We were waiting; we knew she would go wild like she always does when she meets another Dog.

And then she saw her! She immediately abandoned her bags right there and picked Casie up! She went wild of course.

Huh! She behaves so silly sometimes. Yeah that Puppy was cute, but Big Deal. And she wasn't even willing to be friends with us.
Anyways, once Mummy was back in the car, we sniffed and sniffed and sniffed. No, nothing much special, just that pup!
She didn't have her camera with her today, so we can't show u how Casie looked. But we googled for her nearest look-alike.

She could see we were a little hurt because she took so, so long with Casie while we were waiting for her. She hugged us and told us again that we are her Dearest, Cudliest Dolls and she loves us to eternity.
Yeah we know mummy, we love you too.

(I am Mummy's Big Boy Buddy)

(I am Mummy's Doll girl, Ginger)

And Thank Dogness, after her bath she is back to smelling like Us and not Casie.


Wags,
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