Thursday, December 17, 2009

Botanical Garden & Reindog Parade '09

Can't sleep, might as well blog. I'm gonna be so pooped tomorrow, though! And I should probably go to the gym or something more productive since I think they're open at 5:30 AM, but why would I want to do that?

Here are the pictures from our annual trip to the Botanical Gardens for the Reindog Parade. We don't take Bridget because you have to pay to put your dog in the parade, but it's always fun to see how other people like to humiliate their dogs in public.

The Botanical Garden has the best Santa. Too bad it was freezing and Frankie was too cold to cooperate (he won't cooperate when it comes to wearing a real coat, either, hence the "too cold" part.)



Inside of one of the exhibits, they had a pretty cool train set. Did I say 'inside'? Yep. We stayed in there, where it was really humid, for a really long time. Too bad the rest of us got the sweats and ended up shedding our coats for awhile!




And finally, the payoff - a picture of a dog in costume. This dog won the 'holiday finery' costume contest, dressed as the dog from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Its name is Skippy, and Skippy is also paralyzed, so his owners decorated his little wheel-y thing (I have no idea what its called) as a sleigh. It was extremely cute.


You can also see in this photograph that the humans that accompanied Skippy were really committed to the whole 'Grinch' theme.


A fun, yet chilly, time was had by all!

4 comments:

laura said...

where's harper?

VirtualM said...

in the wrap. it was too cold for her to get a photo with santa.

Jacki said...

What a fun activity! I am looking for things to add to the Christmas calendar for 2010, since Jordyn will hopefully get some of it. The reindog parade looks fun.

laughing Songyi said...

omg, so cute.!^-^