Doggie Fostering

We started the last week by going to "December Nights" in Balboa Park last Friday night (December 5th). An estimated 300,000 people go the annual 2-night event in the beautiful park. They have lots of lights on, all the museums are open late and are free, they have booths, rides, etc. But the neatest thing they had were all the performers. They have carolers, dancers, musicians, magicians, comedians, etc. Some of the dancers were amazing, they would spin around upside down on their head, they had seniors tap dancing, etc. They also had little kids doing a routine that reminded us of our neices Ashley, Lauren, and Natalie. Colleen was so inspired by all the dancing that she took information from the group and she is going to sign up and take a 12 week tap dance class this spring!!!

Later during the week, we were able to work out a deal with our landlord where we could indeed get a dog (He had originally denied our request). We began fostering Kylie, a 10-month old rescue dog, a yellow lab (See article below this one too for info on her!)

It started out a little rough, on Friday night, our first night with her, we were taking her out for a final walk at 11pm before bed, and we unfortunately locked ourselves out!!! We had to call a locksmith, and the first one couldn't open us up. We had to call another locksmith and he was able to do it. This took almost 3 hours, until 2am. We were so tired, and Kylie had to be really bored, but she handled it so well. We felt so bad for her!

This weekend, once we got our door open, we took Kylie to Dog Beach here in San Diego, a big wide beach where dogs can run without a leash! The dogs can play with each other and run into the water. Kylie runs as fast as a bullet across the sand and is not afraid of the water, and she loves meeting other dogs.

We also took Kylie with us to Einstein Bagels, that has alwasys been our weekend morning tradition, coffee and bagels at the Hillcrest Einstein bagels, where we know the staff and all the patrons. We always wanted to join the crowd of dog owners who sit out on the patio and have bagels with their dogs (Einstein sells 'dog bagels', they look like a bagel but I'm sure they are liver or beef flavor!!!)

Kylie and our cat Millie haven't got along so well, they avoid each other. Millie asserts her dominance over Kylie and shoes her away if she gets to close. Kylie cries because she wants to play with Millie but can't get close enough to play. We are hoping Millie can become friends with a dog someday, but we'll see how it goes!

Tomorrow we are going to take Kylie to the dog parade downtown!