Bear With Me: January 2011

One of my new year's resolutions is to blog more often. Not every day but just more often. And since that was only about 10 times last year, the bar is pretty low. Yay me! :-)

Today is our last day of Christmas vacation. Sigh.... It certainly flew by! And plans that were made for for our last day were altered but still gave us a wonderful day nonetheless. My original plan was to go to Chick-fil-A for lunch and then take Chloe the Wonder Dog to Balboa Park. Ummm, Molly, the Chick-fil-A thing - aren't you a vegetarian?? Yes but they have my absolute favoritest calendar of all, the "offishul cowlendar" - a whole year of cows! I so love cows (one of the reasons I can't eat them) and the calendar just makes me smile. So we drove out to one of only two Chik-fil-A restaurants in San Diego, a good 20 miles from our house and...THEY WERE CLOSED! Sigh...I forgot that they close on Sunday. As a committed Christian, I'm thrilled that they honor the Lord's Day but...oh well!

Plan B - we went to my favorite restaurant, Evolution which is all vegan and blocks from Balboa Park. We ordered our delicious cheese burgers, fries and vegan Ranch dressing and went to the Park for our picnic.

Hmm... The only thing - it was about 44 degrees outside! Brr... So instead of our picnic lunch, we ate in the car.

Chloe was quite patient!

We stopped by and spoke with Mr. Horton, Mr. Martson and Mr. Morse. As founders of Balboa Park, they are quite informative, indeed!

They showed Sarah where dog park is located...

..and even posed for another picture. Such fine men indeed!

This coral tree has almost lost all of it's leaves and flowers. Because we had such a mild summer and Fall, the leaves are taking much longer to leave. :-)

After we were finished, we went to Nate's Off Leash Park in Balboa Park and let Chloe run around. The only thing is, she doesn't run around - she just stands next to us. Then she runs up to strangers and love them to pieces. It's really pretty funny to watch all the crazy dogs all around us and just have Chloe oblivious to them and waiting for the next person to pet her! She's really soft and quite pretty, if I do say so, and she definitely attracts people when we're out with her. She just a really sweet dog who knows only how to love! She's never aggressive or distant or any negative traits (though she does steal food of the table - GRRR!!!) Actually we realized something - Chloe would rather go to a People Park instead of a dog park. If she could find a place where people will pet her and love on her endlessly she'd be in heaven!