
My friends, I have been to doggie heaven and it is good. There's plenty of sunshine, a big orange bridge, beautiful beaches, amazing parks and plenty of family and friends who will spoil you rotten.
Unfortunately, doggie heaven (aka San Francisco) is rather far away, but at least I got to travel in first-class accommodations:
(Not to brag or anything, but I am an excellent traveling companion. In fact, my Mom was complaining because she says that Dad needs more potty breaks than I do!)
After 13 hours on the road (including a lunchtime stop at a cool little dog park in Medford, Oregon), we arrived at Grandma Laura and Grandpa Barry's house which is right next to Golden Gate Park. The next morning, Mom and I went for a two hour run through the park down to Ocean Beach where I got to run off-leash for a few minutes while the park ranger wasn't looking. Mom says it's often very foggy there, but there wasn't a cloud in the sky all weekend. She might be exaggerating because she's afraid I'll expect to go to San Francisco every weekend.
On Saturday, we went to Chrissy Field which is one of my Mom's favorite places in the whole wide world (something about her young, single days....hmmmm). Anyway, now it's my favorite place, too. I got to run for hours and hours, until I just couldn't run anymore.
By the time we got back to Grandma & Grandpa's house, I was so tired that I couldn't even make it up the stairs before falling asleep.
On my last day I got to go on a nice long walk with my Aunt Hilary. I also got to meet my cousins Lena and Josie for the first time. I liked them right away, but they were a little scared of me. Naturally, I won them over with my canine charm and now we are thick as thieves.
Well, that was my vacation in a nutshell. I'm still pretty jet-lagged (or should I say, Subaru-lagged?) so I'm going to take a nap now.
xoxo - Bella