Great Adventure

Mom's brother, Alex, and his wife, Cheryl, are visiting us this week. All five of us began our trip at Mom-mom and Pop-pop's house. You can see that we were very excited to start our adventure.

On the first afternoon of their visit, Mom took me, Alex and Cheryl to the big park in Richmond. Byrd Park. We had a good time walking the paths and viewing the sites. I really liked the little lakes. I wanted to go swimming but Mom wouldn't let me.

Here I am leading the way. Mom always jokes that I'm an "alpha" dog. I have no idea what that means. All I know is that I feel like I should be the guy in front.

Me and Mom at a water fountain. Once again, I tried to jump in for a short swim. As my friends in Barclay Park know, I have a thing for swimming in water fountains.

Alex read this sign and told me that I was not allowed to dig in the park or we would get in trouble. It's too bad; my super sensitive nose told me that there was lots of interesting stuff under the ground. Oh well. I try not to question the humans' silly rules.

Me, Alex and Cheryl in front of the bell tower at Byrd Park.
Me, Mom and Cheryl on the base of the bell tower.

Yesterday, Wednesday, we went on a really big adventure. Early in the morning, Alex, Cheryl, Mom and I jumped into Alex's big truck and drove for an hour to a place called Colonial Williamsburg. What a great day. It was sunny and cool. We walked throughout this historic site and visited some old buildings and learned about the history of the town and how people lived back in the 1700s. I didn't hear much about how dogs played a role in daily life back in those days but the people dressed in period costumes were very happy to see me. I even got a few treats from them. We had a really fun day and I would love to go back there.

Me and Mom on some old door steps.

Me and Cheryl and a colonial lady.

I like sitting on boxes.

Me, Alex and Cheryl in front of the old capitol building.

Me and Cheryl behind the governor's palace.

We have strong ties to Philadelphia so we're super excited that our Phillies baseball team is in the world series. To celebrate our team, we dressed up this statue and took some pics. I even gave him a little kiss.