A Day at the Beach

Hi everyone!!! We're working on catching up with all of your bloggies and hope we didn't miss TOO much. We've been trying to cram some fun into these HOT days and haven't been around the blogger-machine too much. I have to share one of my fabulous adventures with you.....



The other day, I got to stay in a cool HOTEL!
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"Ok, THIS is MY bed....you guys can have the other one!"



I slept all night and even got served breakfast in bed!

"What is THIS? KIBBLE???....I saw the room service menu on the desk! Kindly order me two scrambled eggys at ONCE!"



We checked out of the hotel and went for a short drive, then walked through some sand until.....

"HO-LY CRAP CANNOLLIS WITH SPRINKLES!!!"


Could it really be?????

LAKE MICHIGAN!!!! WHOOHOOO!



We went to Central Beach (Part of the Indiana Dunes State Park system). This was a new beach for us to try, but mom did her homework and it is one of the "dog friendly" beaches with lots of sand for me to dig in!

DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG DIG
"HEY...I thought SANDwiches were supposed to be yummy? This one is making my face itch!"



Mom took me for a long beach walk and we found some cool rocks...

"Oooohhh...pretty!"



Holden took me swimming...

"HEY...why do these waves keep chasing me???"



Dad rubbed my belly on the blanket...

"Awwwwww yeah! Beach Blanket Belly Rubs are the BOMB!"


After all that fun, sun and sand, I was TIRED and found a shady spot next to the beach bag for a nap.

"OK, we can go home now!"


We hope everyone is staying COOL out there! This heat is RIDONKULOUS here in the midwest!!! NOT Puggy weather at ALL!

Vacation flashback

Hi everyone! I've finally gotten over my almost WEEK of abandonment at the beginning of the month when the peeps went to Washington for their vacation.

I think I'm finally able to talk about it and share a few pics
***Mom's note*** Yes, I realize that looking at someone else's vacation photos are about as exciting as watching milk curdle, but I picked out a handful of faves just to share some of the fun we had (despite being pugless).


The peeps flew to Seattle and then drove straight to Ocean Shores, WA where Mimi and Pa rented a condo near the beach! This was Holden's FIRST trip to an ocean, so Mom captured the exact moment. Look at Pa smiling in the background!

His exact words were "WHOOOOOAH!"


Mom and Holden wanted to bring this guy home for me...but dad talked them out of it!

He said that he wouldn't smell very nice by the time we got back home!


Mimi and Pa took us a bit north to Olympic National Park to a beautiful place called Ruby Beach

The peeps spent the whole day just collecting stones, walking along the shore and just seeing things that they don't see at home. Those big islandy things in the background are called "sea stacks".


Mom searched all over the beach for Tweedles' friend, Puff! We didn't see him, but we did see some other friends that said they knew Tweedles.....

Starfish and some Sea Aenenome!


Uncle Scott (mom's brother) joined them back in Ocean Shores and the next day, they hiked all the way around Brown Point. Mom loves this picture of all of them....

That's Daddy, Pa, Mimi, Holden, Mom and Uncle Scott! All that's missing is ME!


The last day of their vacation was spent in Seattle, and they spent the entire day down on the waterfront and wandering around Pike's Place Market! You know...the place where they do THIS:

***MOM'S NOTE*** We didn't take this video...it's borrowed from YouTube. It was SO crowded, we couldn't even get close enough to see any fish tossing!!!



Mom found her "Mecca"! The original Starbucks!



I guess I wasn't COMPLETELY forgotten...because they found a cool store in the basement of Pike's Place called Animal Gifts and Collectibles where they found THESE:

PUNK ROCK PUG

and


CUPUG!!!

The humans came back all sandy and had weird shells and things for me to sniff, and they PROMISED they'd take me with them next time!

Vacations!

Some of you may not know this, but mommy and daddy are huge DORKS that love PBS, NPR and a bunch of other stuff like that with letters. They love a show on our local PBS channel called Across Indiana that features all kinds of interesting and offbeat human interest type stories of people that live here in Indiana. WELL...a while back, they did a piece about Little Rascals Pet Motel (where I stay on vacations!) Mom records the show every week and they REPEATED the episode with the piece about Little Rascals! I got SO excited!

I recognized their voices right away!!!!


HEY! That's my buddy Lloyd! I know him!!!!

Here is the actual piece that was on the show so you can see how cool this place is!


WELL...since I was so excited about seeing Lloyd and Gail on TV...mom figured this was a good time to take me to stay with them again for another visit!

It's ME with Gail and Lloyd!

Here I am checking out the front fountain with Holden...


This is Howard...he lives there at the Pet Motel! He's a nice guy and laughs when he hears other people laughing!


I had a great time as usual, but was a little miffed when I found out where Mom, Dad and Holden were!
Check THIS out! They went to Lake Michigan WITHOUT ME!

Here is Holden digging halfway to China....


Mom buried Holden in the sand!


Dad "lost his head" (hahahaha!)


Mom said that Holden looked like a CHICKEN CUTLET!


Here's dad and the pretty water!


They promised to take me with them next time. We'll see!!!!