Blog post #4, 4th week of January and it was a sunny one! It was also our good friend Graeme’s birthday week, and he wanted to celebrate it doing something outdoorsy with his little family and good friends, followed by a quiet party at home filled with lotsa beers 
We had grand plans to go snowshowing, since it is winter and all and there’s supposed to be snow on the mountains. But we were quite disappointed when we called the local mountains to inquire about snow conditions. There were no conditions, cause there was no snow! hehe I’m just quietly laughing to myself about the snow situation, Winter Olympics are about to start and we have spring temperatures and a bunch of mud on the mountains. Oh well, not my problem really.
Back to our grand plans, we decided that it’d be just as fun to gather up the car full of animals and head to Buntzen Lake for a short little hike. There car was filled with 8 legs, 5 lunches (one extra for good measures), a bunch of water bottles, 12 paws and 3 wagging tails!
First we let the dogs loose in the gated park at the lake, Razor being a crazy water dog swam circles in the water just for fun, he also learned a few new games from a few rambunctious dogs. Gina was going a little nuts trying to get me to throw rocks for her in the water. And Altai being the most mellow out of all the dogs just wandered around and said Hi to all the dogs.
Then we hiked to the other side of the lake, and this is where all the real fun began! Jelena and Graeme had a bright idea to try to make Razor jump off the dock into the water. Poor Razor didn’t know what he was in for! This is how it all went down:
1. Get Razor excited about fetching a stick.
2. Make Razor run after the stick without realizing that there’s an edge to the dock!
3. Laugh really hard once Razor falls in! (Check out Jelena’s head-roll-from-laughing-too-hard!)
4. Poor Razor didn’t know what hit him, and he frantically tries to get back onto the dock. And of course he’s got no leverage, so Jelena goes in for the save, falls on her butt in the process, and gets totally soaked!
After all that, it apparently wasn’t enough, so Graeme goes for attempt #2. But this time Razor isn’t that stupid, and he stops in time to just look at the stick and totally ignore it.
After all the water fun is over, Altai and I play a little tug-of-war. That little bugger is super strong, look at him snapping those twigs!
Razor joins in the fun! I’ve got nothing against 3 dogs, they beat me pretty quickly.
This concludes our fun on the beach! We headed off back to the car, and we were all pooped! The dogs slept like little babies on the way back home, and we had a nice little nap when we got home too.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRAEME, hope you enjoyed hanging out with us!
This guy is a little ray of sunshine, I kid you not when I say that 95% of strangers walking by smile when they see him. He’s just so funny…looking!! And 99% of people that wonder what breed he is ask if he’s a ‘mini sheep dog.’ He may look like a mini sheep dog, and the breeders say he’s a Shih Tzu/Poodle/Cocker Spaniel, we like to think that he’s a Tibetan Terrier!! Although a city dog, he was born for the mountains. This little guy loves to hike, swim, play in the snow, and do everything a city dog won’t do.
