Waterless Pool

"The kiddie pool is more fun without the water"

During the summer, we decided to buy Bailey a kiddie pool so that she would be able to cool down during hot days. Unfortunately, she refused to sit her butt into the water. She's a bit OCD like that, she loves playing in the ocean and getting dirty, but when it comes to clean water and her bum... no thank you!! On the other hand, when the pool is empty that's when you'll find her sun bathing in the kiddie pool.

We Like Long Walks By the Beach

On a beautiful summer's day, Bailey and I headed to Iona beach. Neither of us had ever visited this beach and did not know what to expect once we were there. To our surprise, there was a walkway that stretched into the ocean! It was as if you're walking on water because if you looked to your left and to your right there would be a vast view of water. It was gorgeous! Bailey kept whimpering and looking at the water wondering why I wasn't letting her off leash to play.

Bailey and I were only able to reach the 3 kilometre mark as we didn't know how far the walkway would go and the sun was starting to come out of hiding. One day, maybe during autumn when it's not so hot out, Bailey and I will walk to the end. When we do, we'll let you know what's at the end of the walkway!

Bad Hair Day

I just couldn't help myself one day after giving Bailey a bath to give her a "new look". And even to this day, this picture still makes me giggle and I had to share this with everyone!

Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!!

Over the weekend, we stumbled over a lovely surprise during our visit to the farmer's market in Steveston. Luckily Bailey was with us that day to say hello to the cows, goats, geese, swans, ducks and chickens!

When we approached the fence, we were immediately greeted by the two cows and one of the goats. I believe they were trying to entice Bailey to come closer as the cows followed her wherever she went and kept stomping their hooves on the ground (maybe I'm reading their behaviour signal wrong?). The goat on the other hand, climbed onto the fence to take a better sniff of Bailey which kind of spooked her out a bit. As soon as the farm animals grew bored of their visitor, that's when Bailey became interested in them (did I mention she's a bit socially awkward??).

I have to say, those ducks were very courageous! Some of them came as close as two feet from us to get a better look at the weird looking fluffy tri-coloured animal with the human.

Summer Picnic

A few days before school started, I basically took Bailey out and about Vancouver every single day. We had so much fun that by the time it was only a few days before school started, we wanted to do activities that were more relaxing. So I took Bailey to Queen Elizabeth Park and had a picnic (more like a Bailey picnic...)!

I had to take two large beach towels with me because Bailey insisted that she needed more than half of the covered area to lie down. Leaving me the edge of towel to sit on, and did I mention that she kept trying to push me off the towels? But no matter, because she didn't mind that I used her as a pillow as I read a book.

For Bailey's picnic, she had half of her dried food as an appetizer then for the main course she had a four inch rawhide. And no picnic would be complete without dessert!!! But dessert came after we visited the dog off leash area in Queen Elizabeth park (I had no idea there was a dog park at Queen E... and I've lived here my whole life! ha!).

This photo was taken soon after I gave Bailey her rawhide. As I said before she was so happy that she was trying to eat the rawhide on her back, but got caught up in the excitement that she forgot that she was about to tip over. When she realized this fact, it was oh too late...

Bury? Or not to bury?

It's a love-hate relationship with the toy ball. One minute she wants to bury it and the next, she seems to change her mind and wants it back!

Holes everywhere

Bailey and I spent most of our time hanging out at McDonald beach where we swam in the water, dug holes in the sand and enjoyed the beautiful weather. I've now discovered that Bailey will only start to swim once I've walked into the water with her. So I wonder if she thinks I'm like her...

Bailey's newest game is dig a hole!! The thing is, she won't just dig a random hole in the sand... no, there must be a ball present for her to dig around and this ball must be a toy that she really really likes. Sadly, I think she may have buried the ball somewhere on the beach because by the end of the day she was searching franticly along the water bank looking for her dearest toy ball.

She must really enjoy digging now because when we found an area on the beach just for the two of us with sand untouched, Bailey had dug at least 6 holes... All holes were as deep as the height of her front leg!

No, the picture above was not photo shopped. Bailey really had dug a hole that deep...

"I think I see Switzerland!!!!"

Bobbing For Apples

The title says it all...