View Point Inn

The day before I left Bethy and I went to the Viewpoint Inn for my belated birthday brunch. We're Twilight freaks, and of course this is where the prom scene was filmed. The scenery is gorgeous, and the food is amazing. You can see the hail hitting us in this top picture. We had such a good time. I miss home!

Lilers!

I thought this was just about the cutest thing I'd seen (until I saw her sleeping with a storage bin lid over her head tonight, which I did not get a picture of)... Lily in the corgi basket hiding her face.

I have so much blogging to catch up on. Pics from the trip, updates from Texas, and I am almost ready to post pics of the house. My blogging time has been taken up with painting. It's finally starting to look like normal people with taste live here.

Stormy Weather

No, not Windshyre's Stormy Weather, Phoebe....

Today we had a nice welcome to Texas thunder and lightning storm, and got to see what our yard does when it pours down rain for half an hour straight:

Front of house

Backyard swimming pool!

Gutters overflowing. Jeff says this sometimes happens here.

I have no idea what this spout thing is coming off our patio covering. It happens on both sides.

Poop bucket floating away...

I was really worried it was going to come into the house. I guess we're built for storms like this, though.

Day 6

Well, the trip is winding down... thank goodness!

Today we got to San Antonio. The trip didn't go as quickly as it did yesterday, but we got here. We went to Market Square for Mexican food (I had a poblano pepper for the first time in over a year!!!) and I think everyone actually had a good time. Yay! Market Square is very festive, so it's hard not to have a good time.

Tomorrow the guys are going to the Alamo while I do laundry. A couple of my dogs trip out when I leave them alone in a strange place (not naming names, ahem, Cosmo and Lily), so I decided to stay at the Motel 6 with them and do laundry so we all have clean clothes. I've been to the Alamo a few times, and my sole purpose for going this time would be to get a "You can all go to hell and I will go to Texas" t-shirt... which I probably have no business wearing at my age even if it IS a historical quote : )

Tomorrow we drive to Houston! Wahoo! It's been a little surreal thinking about moving to Houston permanently, but tomorrow we close on the house, and my brother flies in, and Wednesday we move in. So it's the real deal. Yay!

Another highlight of tomorrow will be bbq-ing at Howard and Diane's. Yay! They are Jeff's parents for those of you who don't know. Diane makes the best dinners (and breakfasts, and cheesecakes... she has mad cooking skills)... and no I am not just saying that because she is my blog follower and soon to be mother in law : ) I haven't seen them in over a year now, so I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't even seen the house since they redecorated. Gasp! Should be fun.

Side note- the motel 6 in downtown San Antonio is downright posh (well, on the inside). They've decorated it very modern. Think Ikea gone wild. Complete with a wall mounted flat screen. It's actually very, very nice! Of course the outside is full on Motel 6-ish. Only one more night of motel-ing it with the dogs then we'll have our house and yard. Can't wait. I hope Jeff has time to show me the house tomorrow!!!

Goodnight for now, blogger friends. My 3 bed dogs and I need sleepy sleep time.

Road Trip Day 5: The 8 dog hike and making it to Texas

I am soooo glad Traci blogged about our hike and posted pics, because I am dead tired! Traci, you totally have to email me the pics when you have time.

We met up with Traci and crew today for a nice hike. We didn't actually get very far because it was so hot, but we had a great time! I am so glad we got to see each other before I left Phoenix. We had 8 dogs, and at one point a toddler came past and asked us very earnestly, "Why do you have so many dogs?" Traci and I answered back in unison, "Because we're crazy!" Too funny!

I am in love with my little grandpuppy. I wouldn't mind having a little Sedona/Phoebe puppy someday when my dog numbers are more normal. She is so beautiful, just like her mother, with the sweetest disposition. Absolutely loved her! She even has that unique, fine Phoebe coat that is so nice.

I will put up pics when I get them. Traci took a few I want to steal from her, and she doesn't know I got pictures of the "Got Corgi" mobile as I followed her out. After seeing how much room she has in the back, I WANT to join the Element crew! I tried to get her to trade me so we'd be more comfortable the rest of the trip, but had no luck with that!

We made awesome time out of Phoenix and crossed into Texas finally. Yay! We went straight through El Paso, and ended up in a town called... um... nevermind, can't remember. It got us a couple hours closer to destination San Antonio for tomorrow, though, so it was good.

Later...

PS blogger friends..

Thank you, everyone who has asked. Lily is doing MUCH better! Since her fluid injections and antibiotics started she's been drinking lots of water and even some gatorade (found a website that said pedialite, and figured gatorade would work, too) and she is also keeping her food down. She ate a little of Cosmo's bland dog food yesterday, then she ate the leftovers of a bowl of white rice I had for lunch. Now we just need to get some weight on her, because we are embarassed to walk her. She looks like one of those skin and bones dogs the SPCA confiscates on Animal Cops. She's a skinny minny to begin with, so any weight loss is veeeery noticeable. You can even see the 2 little bones above her butt right now :(

The Roadie, Day 4

By far the best day of the trip! On the way to Phoenix we stopped at a rest stop on I10 and ran into another Cardigan family taking their dogs out for a pee! I had to text Mandy and brag about having the "eye" now, because I spotted these dogs and knew somehow there was a common relationship with our little crew from Oregon. We got to talking, and it turns out they are Carbon grandkids (or great grandkids... the lady was a pet owner and not super up on her cardi family tree but she knew Carbon had a fairly close relationship and was fairly certain they were grandkids). I wish I knew who else was in them for comparison's sake, because it wasn't so much that they looked Carbon-y that caught my eye. They were from Debbie Burnette (sp?) and named Dexter and Piper, if anyone in our small little world knows them. They do agility.

Our trip to Phoenix was nice and short, and we checked into our ghetto (can't win them all) Motel 6 in Phoenix. Last night we met up with one of my best friends since childhood, Janiene, her awesome husband Marvin, and Marvin's mom (who is also visiting). We went out for dinner and didn't roll back into the Motel 6 until about 1am. It was a lot of fun.

Now we're about to get up and eat at Ihop, then meet up with Traci and crew (including grandpuppy Sedona!) for a nice hike. Then I think we'll head off towards El Paso and see how far we get. We should hit Houston Tuesday morning.