chillapalooza 2009

dear diary,
just when i thought i couldn't have more fun this weekend, i had even more! mom and dad bundled me up and we all went to another wiener festival. The best part about this one is that i got to see lot of my buddies - from yesterday and from like forever ago. i butt sniffed my good friends zelda and marshall and cricket and pepper and carlos and wilhelm and brownie. i even ran into cody, a little fella i met a long time ago when he was only a pup but now he's much bigger cuz that was like almost two years ago. even big pepper the 32 pound wirehair was there, though i forgot who he was and i barked at him again - oopsie!

as you might expect, marshall's mom did a great job with the festival and there were all sorts of fun events like bobbing for hot dogs, obstacle course, costume contest, limbo contest, longest/oldest/shortest/best trick/came from farthest away doxie, and of course the raffle baskets that included the harnesses that mom donated. thank goodness i didn't have to model them again. i would have shown you more pictures of everything but you see it was overcast and i was so excited about everything that mom couldn't keep the camera very still to compensate for the extra shutter time and well, a lot of the pictures turned out like we were in the middle of an earthquake. plus me and mom kinda played hooky for part of the festival cuz there were these german shepherds that lurked about and i wasn't happy about that at all. so we wandered around town for a bit and peeked into a fabric store (oh bother, it was closed!). we had fun wandering but we missed out on some of the hot dog bobbing action cuz of our secret trip.

so anyways, here are some pictures that did turn out. i really liked the fella in the skunk costume. he was only 5 months old. i think he was a little overwhelmed with all the attention but he handled himself pretty well considering. that's him standing between his dad's legs. the ten year old gal in the bumblee costume is ann and she is up for adoption. doesn't she have a sweet face? zelda is in the pumpkin hoodie and that there fella in the pirate costume won the costume contest.



now some doxies that showed up didn't even need events be entertained. this nicely dressed fella here had himself a ball just digging a hole. i am pretty sure he could have dome that for hours, just like i could hunt. later on his dad put doggles on him and he looked very rico suave and can u believe didn't mind wearing those goggles one bit? my buddy little pepper was really funny, too, cuz i think she was havin fun chasin pigeons that were as big as she was!

so what can i say, dear diary, except i am one pooped wiener dog. i think i'll spend most of today sleepin in dad's lap, even if it's gonna be sunny out.

toodles!
b.