Boys Weekend......

I was in NOLA last week for Mardi Gras. Bucky (and John) met me at the airport when I came back. Bucky waited patiently for me at the baggage carousel - watching everyone come and go. When I arrived he greeted me with enthusiasm - squiggling his skinny little body around and rubbing up to me. (Every golden loves to deposit as much hair as possible on as many people as possible! It is a mandatory requisite in order to belong to the Golden Club!) It was a very endearing and rewarding greeting.

While I was gone John and Bucky had a Boys Weekend. I have had a few of their secrets revealed to me - and one is that they watched the Trail Riders enroute to the rodeo parade. It is always fun to watch the riders, horses and wagons go down Memorial Drive along Spots Park behind our place. I am sorry that I missed the parade - and Bucky's first exposure to wagons and horses. John said that Bucky barked a couple of times at the horses, and then settled down and found better things to amuse himself with. (Probably leaf chasing - since that is always a default diversion for him! We must work hard on that nasty habit! Its not a good thing for a Guide Dog to have a Leaf Chasing hobby.)

I have also heard that The Boys went to Galveston and enjoyed some beach time. I am not sure who has the bigger grin in this photo? 

He came home exhausted, wet, happy and smelly. And Bucky had a great time too!

To digress for a moment, when we brought Bucky back from Florida he literally spent 2 days in the car. He was such a good little dog sleeping on my lap and never making a fuss for over 1,000 mile/1600km journey. 

Then for some reason, he developed a distaste for getting in the car. He would Frog Dog (go flat as a pancake) anytime he knew we were heading to the car! He would do it in parking lots, ANY parking lot. He just did not want to get in the car. We really can't understand why, since we have made a nice little Bachelor Pad in the back of our small SUV.

Fortunately, after about 3 months of this, he now happily jumps into the back of the car, eager to go new places and have some fun.

Now that he has developed an appreciation for "wheels" he has made a request for his own mode of transportation. Hmmmmm.....

It looks like John and Bucky had fun on their Boys Weekend....