One of my favorite things of being a puppy is, that I’m experiencing a lot of things for the very first time, like for example: labor day.
Mama told me what that labor day thingy is, but all I heard was: Papa has a day off from work!
YAY! 3 days of fun with the whole family. I love having my Mama and Papa around me, more than anything.
We spend a fantastic dog friendly long labor day weekend all together. First I got to go to my favorite dog park in San Jose, I got lots of cuddles and finally on the actual labor day we went to Santa Cruz. I haven’t been here before so I was very excited when Mama told me, that we’re going to see some Surfers.
I have to say: I LOVE LOVE LOVE Santa Cruz!
We first spend a little time at Mitchell Cove Beach where dogs are allowed to run off-leash in the morning and in the afternoons. Although it wasn’t off-leash time yet I had a lot of fun. I’m still not a fan of the ocean (those waves are way too scary if you ask me) but I love digging in the sand. I was digging and digging and digging… until I was all sandy. Tee-hee.
Afterwards we took a very, very long walk to the light house. We met tons of other lovely dogs on our walk and I had to greet them all. Each and everyone of them. Naturally it took as a while until we arrived at the light house. There I needed to spend some time in the shade, because it was really hot and my black puppy coat wasn’t exactly helping me cool down.
But after a while I wanted to see those Surfers Mama was talking about. And I got to see some. Wow, surfing looks fun. I’d totally try that too, if it wasn’t a thing where you have to get close to those nasty waves. Well, maybe when I’m older? We’ll see.
After watching some of the surfers we had to go all the way back to the car. I barely made it. I was so tired and exhausted from digging, walking, greeting other dogs and being pet by loads of friendly people. But Papa refused to carry me back to the car, so I had to walk all by myself.
Of course I slept all the way back home in the car and when we arrived, I was my jumpy happy self again. Tee-hee.
Here are some photos from the trip to Santa Cruz:
me digging
taking a digging break
more digging
Papa and me
Mama and me
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