Road Trip! (part 1)

This past weekend, Mom took me on my very first vacation. Yeah, Yeah...I've spent time away from home before, usually at Grandmaw's & Grandpaw's, but this was different. I got to stay in a motel!

Mom & a friend were headed to Santa Barbara for the weekend. Mom's friend was running something called a marathon, and Mom wanted me to keep her company while she cheered her on

At first, Mom was a bit discouraged. All the hotels that accepted dogs had a weight limit or a crazy nightly fee Mom would have to pay. After a bit of searching though, Mom found a great little motel called the Blue Sands. No weight limit, and only a $10 fee per doggie per night. How awesome is that!?!

We arrived on Friday morning and it was an absolutely beautiful day. It had finally cooled down a bit after our southern California heat wave, and I was lovin it.

It was a cute, spanish style motel & even included a pool! Unfortunately, that was one of the rules...no doggies in the pool area. That's ok..I much prefer the beach anyway!

The room itself wasn't huge, but a decent size with enough space for 2 queen beds (one of which was fit for a king!) BOL!

It even had a fully functional kitchen! Complete with a full size fridge, a microwave & a miniature stove!

Half a block down the street was the beach. No dogs allowed off leash there...but since it wasn't really tourist season and there weren't a lot of people on the beach, Mom let me off leash a few times and just kept a sharp eye out for the beach patrol. (check out how clear it was...you can even see the Channel Islands in the distance!)

Directly across from the hotel was a fabulous park. If you biggefy the picture you should be able to see why I was so excited about getting over to the park!

It was a gorgeous young English Mastiff! Her name was Mudge. She was staying at the hotel with her family...a Mom & Dad & their 3 kids! She was named after a character in the children's book, Henry & Mudge. I thought she was beautiful, & we instantly started our vacation romance!

Boy did we have fun. She liked playin bitey face just as much as I do!

Mudge, and this cool labrachick (I totally forget her name now, since I only had eyes for Mudge) were both staying at the motel too!

Can't wait to tell you more about my vacation! Til next time...

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Santa Barbara Sunset

Summer in November??

Holy Hotness, Batman!!

Apparently, summer has arrived a little late in Sandy Eggo

Doggie Bloggie Award

Yipee! Lola sent us an award!

She's a beautiful new bloggie friend of mine, and I am very honored she chose me for this award.

As usual...the award comes with a few rules.

Here are the rules of the Doggie Bloggie Award:


1) Thank the person who gave the award and link to them.

A huge slobbery slurpie kiss to Lola. Thanks for the award!

2) Name 10 things about yourself-creative, weird, enticing, whatever.

This is always tough. Not sure I can come up with 10 things, but here goes...

1. Every Saturday I get a pawticure...Mom is super anal about long nails, so every Saturday I have to be tortured with the dremel device. (I actually don't mind it too much though, cuz I get lots of yummy foodables!)
2. I hate spray bottles. When I have itchy skin, Mom tries to spray some of this stinky oatmeal stuff on my skin to make it feel better...but I would rather scratch myself than be sprayed with anything!
3. Overall, I am a super duper nice doggie. Unless of course you are a boy dog with testicles. Then I get a little grumpy and feel I have to put you in your place. Mom always gets super mad at me and I know I shouldn't do that...but I can't help myself sometimes!
4. I am a super duper picky eater. Even most people food I am given, I turn my nose up at. I don't even like kitty-roka (you know...the stuff in the litter box!). How strange is that?
5. I am currently working towards an obedience title & a rally title. Haven't actually competed yet, but Mom tries to practice with me often!
6. I love love love to run on the beach and swim in the ocean!
7. I am greatly abused and not allowed to lay on the furniture. No bed & no couch for me! I only have my dog beds! Can you believe it??
8. I am kinda scared of big giant animals on posters. You know, the kind they have in pet stores to promote a product? Yeah...those things scare me!
9. I got to be in on of the "Marmaduke - the Movie" trailers!
10. I seem to have a problem with 'sploding beds. I find it rather dangerous, and have complained to Mom but it keeps happening!

3) Award 15 doggie bloggers-whoever you think deserves this regardless of whether they are old or new.

A Dog's Life

Dog Eared

Nubbin Tails

Gone to the Dogs

Darby's Daily

Gardening with Wyatt

Tails from the Dach Side

Noah - the Life of an Indiana Aussie

Olive

Barking Out Loud

Bocci's Beefs

The Rowdy Retriever Gals

Nova the Great Dane

Loving for a Living

Husky Dog Blog

4) Share the love with the doggie bloggers you award by commenting on their site.

5) Finally, have a great time...participation is not mandatory, only if you want to!! After all, doggies are nothing if not fun!

Wordless Wednesday

technical difficulties...

Murphy's Mom here...

HELP!

anyone else having trouble uploading pictures? Every time I try to upload more than one picture, interenet explorer freezes and I have to kill it. So frustrating!

anyone have any suggestions?

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Strike a pose