Back from New York!

Last weekend, I took a long weekend to go on a trip to NYC with my dad and we had a fantastic time! We got lucky with good weather and amazing food of course.

Some highlights from the trip:

• Ate melt-in-your-mouth pasta in Little Italy
• Got bombarded by people offering "watches, handbags, gucci, rolex" in Chinatown
• Mastered the subway (even successfully offered directions to a few people who asked!)
• Visited Central Park for my dad's first time
• Visited the Metropolitan Museum for both of our first time
• Went to Macy's. Three times.
• Went to a fancy, expensive steakhouse
• Walked. A LOT.
• Went to the top of Rockefeller Center on a clear sunny day

Dad and I at Central Park

Yummy authentic Italian pizza!

View of Central Park from the top of the Rock

In the meantime, Ellie stayed with her best friend Goldie (and my sister) and had a great time being allowed on her bed and couch. She's not allowed on the furniture at my place ;)

Ellie and Goldie

It was great spending lots of time with my dad and had some very successful shopping outings, but I am glad to be back home with my doggy!

MIA, Hanging with Goldie

Sorry we have not been blogging or commenting lately, friends! Me and mom vow to try to spend more time keeping up with blogs now.

Me and mom have been going through lots of changes lately. I'm a very confused doggy and am not really sure what's going on, but things are different.

The good news is that my best friend Goldie stayed with us for a couple days. It was SO fun having a buddy over all the time, we played sooo much.

Me and Goldie snoozing

Mom liked it that we kept each other company, but she was also a little bit glad to give Goldie back. Goldie gets up in the middle of the night and jingles her collar lots which kept waking up mom (and I have to deal with mom's crankiness!)

Me checking out the new view

My Mystery Mutt - Guess Her Breed!

Inspired by Pup Fan (I Still Want More Puppies), Edie (Will My Dog Hate Me) and Peggy (Peggy's Pet Place), I have decided to join the Magical Mystery Mutt Tour! Your task is to guess which breed(s) Ellie is made up of! I have done DNA tests before so don't look back and cheat, but also those aren't always accurate. So use your doggy knowledge and make your best guess!

Ellie's description: Ellie is about 42 pounds. She is knee height and long and skinny. She has floppy ears and a long face and long tail. She runs super fast and loves to chase anything that moves! She is also very lovey and clingy and loves to be near/cuddle whoever is watching her. Her bark sounds like a 'woof!' and she doesn't howl or whine. When she is antsy or anxious, she makes a very high pitch squeak/whistle sound (which is VERY annoying).

Here are her pictures!

Sharing a chair with mom

I go to work with mom. A lot of times I get bored and poke her elbow with my nose for attention. Sometimes she will scoot her chair out enough so that I can try and climb up onto her desk. This time, I just wanted to sit in the chair with her.

Goin' Down to Texas

I have been MIA from blog land lately because I came down with a cold that kicked my butt, and then Jon and I flew to Houston! This blog will be written in highlights to get all the good stuff without making you read a whole lot. :)

• Ellie snuggled with me while I was home sick. I even let her up on the couch which she's NEVER allowed onto (shh don't tell Jon). 
• We flew to Houston and went to Brazos Bend State Park where we saw some alligators! Apparently, there are usually many more all over the paths, but it must have been too cold.
• We went to San Antonio and the weather was clear and beautiful! We walked the river walk & rode a tour boat.
• We shopped a 5k. Literally. The outlet mall in San Marcos stretches 1.5 miles (according to the odometer when we drove it to measure) and we walked down and back, plus in and out of stores!
• Ellie stayed with my mom and then my sister was kind enough to get her the last night so I wouldn't have to drive 20 miles to pick Ellie up after arriving at home.
• Ellie freaked out when I came to get her. She was super pumped about me coming home. I was too, but didn't run around in circles like she did.

Picture time!

Gator sighting

Jon climbed a tree

River walk and the boat that we rode

The Alamo

It was a fantastic trip and fun to get away to someplace new, but I'm glad to be back home. :)

Ellie is a stringbean

I often see other dogs that like to lay with their back legs out the back, but Ellie only rarely does it. So rarely, in fact, that this photo is a few months old as getting a picture of her in this position is like trying to catch a glimpse of Sasquatch.

She's long and skinny without sticking her legs out the back, that this just looks even more unusual. Cracks me up every time.

We made Blizzards!

Jon got a Blizzard maker for Christmas. Yes, a Dairy Queen Blizzard maker. We finally got around to buying half and half and rock salt so tonight was the night to finally try it out!

We assembled all of the parts and added all the ingredients and got to stirring.

It took over 10 minutes to get to the right consistency, so we took shifts :)

Look how tiny the cups are!

Finally, it's ready to eat! We crushed up some Oreos to put in.

It tasted super sweet, different from your typical Dairy Queen ice cream. Fun, but I think next time we'll just make the drive to our local DQ!

Where's my ice cream?