One of those days....

Mum took me treat shopping, 

What she failed to tell me was that the treats were not for ME!!! They were going to be sent to my special friend!!!

Talk about slave labour.... 

Then I saw this angry bird, 

I had never seen one like him, 

He was huge, probably the size of half a SuperDALE, and he looked ANGRY!!!

I had always thought that Angry Bird looked like this, 

Not this!

We got home, and this happened......

(mum: look at how DARK she is now!!! She's going to be one coloured soon lol!)

It's just been one of those days.......

Parcel Pick Up

Mum told me we were going to Point Roberts, WA to pick up a few parcels. I right away assumed the co-pilot position, 

I took my job very seriously, always checking to make sure the roads are safe. Mum stopped to get herself a McDonald meal,

 Ok mum, all roads CLEAR! You can now safely feed me eat your McNuggets now!

Once we got to Pt. Roberts, mum picked up all our parcels. My friend SuperDAVE had told me that he had asked his mum Auntie Lydia to mail some yummy treats for me. So as soon as mum came back to the car, I looked for MY SuperTREATS!!

FOUND THEM!

Just taking what is SuperMINE!

Now look at this, doesn't the label look like Dave wanted the treats for SuperME only but someone else added some other weird name on there?

Who is Jaffa?

 

Oh well, don't recognize that Jaffa name, must not exist. Guess all the treats are still SuperMINE!! (mum: Don't think so!!)

We went to the beach where I saw a baby loch ness monster. He seemed rather harmless, so I left him alone. 

Then I saw STINKY trying to show off, 

So I showed him how it's DONE!!

Then I located a SuperROCK!

I wanted it!!!

Told STINKY to help me with it, but he was no help......

So I settled on a little special rockie,

I rested with my special rockie,

The beaming sun and the ocean breezy made it a perfect place to take a SuperNAP, 

However, I had a nightmare..... 

I dreamed that a Tyrannosaurus was running towards me......

And crushed my SuperHEAD!!!

I jumped to my feet and realized it was just stoooopid STINKY storming over and stepping on my SuperHEAD!!!!

So I made a rock sign,

And went back to napping,

Unfortunately, the sign didn't work.......

So I gave up on having a peaceful nap.......

STINKY posted too, but you really don't need to read his post....

On our way home, mum called a restaurant ahead of time for din din pick up. She parked across the street from the place and told me to guard the car. 

I said NO PROBLEM! SuperDALE is on it!! (mum: I had clear view of the car from the restaurant window.)

You know what happened while mum was in the restaurant paying for the take out??? 

SOMEONE BROKE INTO MY DaleMOBILE!!!!

Look! They tried to steal MY supplements that we had just picked up from the US mail box!!! I stopped him of course, 

And then he tried to steal mum & D-Guy's passports as well as me & STINKY's health certificates!!!

So I wrestled with him hard and finally got the passport and health certificate back!!

(mum: Don't worry, no one broke into the car, no one even went near the car! There are always two sides to every story :-) I had called the restaurant ahead of time for pick up, so I was only in the restaurant for no more than 10 minutes. I parked in a spot where I had clear view of the car as I had left the windows open for them. I knew it was past dinner time and Sunshade was getting hungry, so took extra precautions. I remember the bag of treats my friend Lydia sent for the pups, and I knew Sunshade would be looking for it. So before I left the car, I made sure to put the treat bag in the glove compartment. Sure enough, as soon as I went inside the restaurant, she climbed to the front passenger seat. I knew there was no food left out, so I didn't go out to stop her. The box with bottles of supplements were on the passenger seat, she tried to take the whole box to the back as that was where the bag of treats was at before I moved it. Unfortunately, the box was too heavy and the entire box fell onto the driver's seat floor as she was moving it. She continued to stay in the passenger seat looking for stuff.  I was too far away to see exactly what she was doing. After a while, she climbed back to the back of the car (carrying the slip cover with the passports & documents hindsight!).  I believe Sunshade associated plastic with treat bags, so out of all the things in my bag, she took out the plastic slip cover to take to the back. I guess she was just starting to rip it open like she does with treat bags when she realized there was nothing yummy smelling in that bag. So she left it alone (thank doG!!). This whole time, Jaffa was just being perfect in the back, watching his Sunshade be a SuperDALE.....)

Lighthouse Marine Park, Pt. Roberts, WA

Soooooo.....

Today is MY 10th's Birfday!!!

Remember we said earlier that my B-Day walk happened yesterday because mum had something *VERY* important to pick up today at her US mail box?? The mail box is located in Pt. Roberts, Washington, about 40 kilometers from Vancouver.

So we drove through about an hour of very bad traffic down to this place,


I should mention, the US Customs have ALWAYS been very nice to me and mum, and it's all because of ME!! They are always admiring me, talking to mum about me, asking mum what breed I am, etc, and they have NEVER asked for my health records. Today was no different. The Custom officer we pulled up to started asking mum about me, where she got me from.

Since I came from a breeder in WA, mum said "She's an American with dual citizenship!".

The Custom officer responded excitedly, "I KNEW she was an American because she was so quiet. The *beep*-dian dogs are always yapping!"

Mum said something like "ha ha...yea..she's a pretty good girl..."

(mum: well its always nice to hear complements about Sunshade, but was the nice officer implying something??? Hahaha.... Please don't get offended fellow Canadians/Canadian pups, I for one know its not true!)

Anyway, when we went inside TSB shipping's office, we found out that FedEX hadn't delivered mum's top secret package yet!!!

So instead of driving back home, mum took me to here even tho it was pouring,



Look, she let me out of the car without taking any pictures of me still IN THE CAR!! How momentous was this??



I scanned the planes of the field with my SuperEYES as I always do,


Because BUNNIES roam free here!! Just needed to spot one,


But I didn't see any.... SIGH...


So I headed towards the beach instead,


It is a beach FULLLLLLLL of ROCKIEEEEEES!!!


I told mum to HURRRRRRRRRRRY and THROOOOOOOOOOOW,


She was very well behaved on MY B-Day,


I went and dug for THAT one particular, special rock that mum threw,


The one she throws is always more special to me, so I make sure I find it,


Then mum somehow decided that the particular rockie that SHE picked, that SHE threw (for me to get), that I spent a lot of time getting (very salty and sandy), was "too big" for me to hold. So she told me to "DROP ITTTTTTTT"....

This was my face,


Yes, I wasn't too pleased at all. Rockies are a serious business, doesn't she know that??


She traded me with this tiny, puny one.....


I gave it a try, but SERIOUSLY.......


So I went and picked up the original rockie that SHE threw,


That's more like the SuperDALE size of rock!!


I brought it with me on Bunny Patrol,



However, Bunny Patrol requireed 100% undivided attention from me, so I soon left my big special rockie behind.....


My hunt began...


Come out come out wherever you are bunnies...


Then all of a sudden, I stopped dead,


I had spotted something,


Except mum had NO IDEA. She was still using that trigger flashing machine none stop,


She even ended up putting it right IN FRONT of my stalking face (just because I wasn't moving) and pressed the flashing button!


She mumbled something like gee Sunshade, why are you standing so still, there's nothing.

Well mum, just because you don't have SuperEYES, it doesn't mean there is nothing okay??

Just watch!!

(mum: I saw Sunshade was in her stalking mode, but I didn't know why because I couldn't spot the rabbit for the longest time. I don't know what I said in the beginning of that video, but Sunshade doesn't sits a bunny nor does she sit on one LOL...)

SIGH... why did the bun bun go home??


My luck after that first and last sighting was pretty bad... nothing here,


Nothing there.... nothing everywhere....


So as a last resort, I decided to perk up my SuperEARS to enable super sonic hearing,


Unfortunately, they just ALL WENT HOME!! How can there be NO teenage bun buns??

To better my frustration, I headed towards the playground.


Playgrounds always make me feel better, because I can play my *NEW* game!

I just find the whole experience of watching pine cones sliding down the slide at 200km/hr super exhilarating!


And when you make that catch....the moment is PRICELESS... not even Mastercard can buy,


It was getting dark and mum was wanting to go back to the post office again for her secret package, so we started making our way back,


I wanted to check out the Orca Center before heading back,


(mum: Sunshade has always been a very curious girl. The breeder noted her to be the most curious pup in her litter during the puppy testing performed at 7 weeks of age. 10 years later, she's still the same!)

I, being the SuperDALE, am always trying to educate myself whenever possible,


I knew that,


Learned about all the pods already from my other nephew, Rusty, who is a Professional,


Alright then, nothing new to learn, time to go,


Hmmmm...why was the ground black and white?


Then mum had to go pee pee, (mum: thank you for sharing Sunshade...lol)


And she locked me OUT because she said it was dirrrrrrty!!


I was such a good dogter tho, I just stayed out there and "talked and talked" to her about why I thought it was unfair that I had to stay out....

After mum got out, since her sense of direction was very bad, I found the DaleMOBILE for her,


We drove back to the post office,


Mum's secret package arrived, but it had a bunch of stickers on it,


What kind of stuff is THIS fragile and gets killed if it got turned upside down???