Alley & Kyle’s Adventures in . . .

Today, a local pool sponsored Soggy Doggy Splash Day, and we took the dogs for a little "swimming" at the pool.  We learned one thing:  our dogs can’t swim.  We got them in the water, but that was about it.  So, we stayed shallow with them, and they seemed to enjoy that.  I tried to take a bunch of pictures, but most of them weren’t very good.  Here are the best ones that I got, and they are both of Slate.  Rocky wanted to get in the water, but as soon as he got in, he wanted out.  Not too easy to get pictures as Rocky is scampering out of the pool.

We went to southern New Mexico last weekend - to the area of Cloudcroft.  We did some hiking in the mountains, and we spent a day at White Sands National Monument.  Apparently, Rocky has already filled you all in on the details, so here are some pictures for you to enjoy…..

The mountains around Cloudcroft - when it was NOT raining over the weekend.

The sand dunes at White Sands National Monument.

Kyle and the puppies at White Sands.

This is where the puppies got away from us for a few minutes at White Sands.  They loved the freedom!

We brought sleds and went down the sand dunes!  So much fun!

After Slate went down the sand dune running next to Kyle on the sled.  The dogs had a blast at White Sands.

Hello, this is Rocky.  Alley is busy at work, so I thought that I would update everyone on our weekend trip to the mountains.  I think that we went somewhere in New Mexico, but I’m not really sure where because I slept in the back of the car the whole drive over.  I like to occasionally wake up to check on Kyle and Alley and make sure that they are driving safely.  Slate liked to jump up and look out the back window to make sure that we weren’t being followed.  (He gets paranoid sometimes.)

Kyle and Alley took us to the mountains for some hiking and playing.  It rained a lot up on the mountain over the weekend, but I didn’t mind.  You know the best part about the rain (besides all of the great smells that it brings out!)?  Mud wrestling!  Slate and I had so much fun wrestling around in the mud and jumping in the big puddles.  Kyle and Alley looked upset that they didn’t get to play in the mud too, so I jumped on them trying to get them to join in the wrestling.  I don’t think that they thought that it was as much fun as Slate and I thought.  I guess that we puppies just know how to have a good time.

Kyle and Alley also took us to this place with these big white hills.  I think that they called it sand or something like that.  I have never seen anything like it before.  I tried to eat some, but it didn’t taste very good.  It was fun to climb up these white hills and then run back down them again.  One time, Slate and I even got away from Kyle, so we ran circles around him.  It was so much fun! 

It was a really fun weekend, and we did so much that I am still tired.  I think that I will go take another nap.  I’ll tell Alley to post some pictures of the trip later.