Seabus

This morning, mum and I went for a walk at Kits Beach with Jack, mum's university friend. I hadn't seen Jack for over 3 years because he moved back to Taiwan.

I swam and saved trees like I always do,

This is the exact spot where I ruptured my spleen and collapsed a month ago! It was my first time back, and it was a SuperCOME-BACK!

We walked to the seabus station,

Mum said I could get on too!!

We were a bit early, so we had a wait a little bit before the seabus could leave...... This was my "hurry up and move the seabus" face.....

Finally, it was moving!! I SuperLOVE to take the seabuses!!

See the buildings across the water? That's downtown Vancouver. We were going over there to pick up Issy!!

Ahhh.... the ocean breeze..... (don't drop your phone mum!!)

I love these seabuses so much that I'm always walking to the station on my own to see if mum would let me get on it. The times that I do get to go on, as soon as we dock, I get off and turn right back around to get back onto the seabus hoping for another ride. Today, I got to do just that!! We dropped Jack off, and picked up Issy at the same station. Lots of ferry rides for me!!!

That's the Burrard Bridge you see. It connects Vancouver Westside (where we live) to downtown Vancouver.

This is where we picked up Issy. That other seabus is going to Granville Island, which is across the water, opposite to where we came from.

Oh yeah, the seabuses are also called ferries,

My ride back to my beach,

Once we got back to my neck of woods, I headed down to the dog beach, 

I wanted to play on the the beach some more, but mum and Issy said they were hungry so they wanted to go E-A-T...... (maybe they should eat my Cushing's pills too??)

So I sat my MUSCLE BUTT down!!! Humph!

(mum: A lot of times, I just give in to Sunshade when I see her wanting to have more fun. However, I had a hungry friend who was going to be leaving in a few weeks. Sunshade was doing the best of her Airedale stubbornness! She stood there and watched me instead of coming up to me when she realized I wasn't walking down to the beach. I called her, gave her the "let's go" hand signal which I know she saw, because she sat down as soon as I gave her the signal. Girl was trying to outstubborn me. So I finally had to walk out of her sight, and she came running.)

So we compromised, 

Mum said I could bring the Flintstone tree that I saved from earlier in the morning home, 

I carried it all the way UP the hill, 

Across the walk way, 

Across the park and back to the SunshadeMOBILE. I made sure mum put it inside MY car!

After mum and Issy had their lunch, I said it was my turn for a snack. I took them to Tisol pet store and picked up some Bison Chips!!

We had to wait for the pedestrian light to change from a red hand to a little white man walking.... it was a long wait...

Light finally changed!!!

Me, MY Bison Chips and Issy safely made it across the street! The store in the corner is Tisol pet food store!

SuperHURRYING!

Me and Issy doing synchronize walking, 

I had to water the grass, 

And then I told mum it was time for a CHIP!

Yes, chip from the bag in your hand please,

After I had my chip, I continued to carry my chip bag,

Responsible SuperDALE!!

SuperDANGEROUS!!!

Guess what Evil-mum did today while Auntie Helen came over (with STINKY #3) to give me a Reiki treatment......

(mum: this is 8 months old Saphie. It was her first time meeting the piggie.)

She put MY Sesame piggie in SuperDANGER!!!!!! I was inside while Auntie Helen was treating me, so I had no idea all this was happening, or I would have never allowed it. (STINKY went running with Bikeman Mike)

STINKY #3 could have killed MY Sesame piggie!

LOOK! I have SuperPROOF!!!

(mum: I am almost certain that the guinea pig loving gene runs in the Loc Aire Airedales!

Saphie is 8 months old, a Jaffa's niece/Sunshade great niece.

Please note, I DID NOT just put the pup together with the guinea pig right from the start. I let her see the piggies from outside the cage just to get an idea what she thought of them. I was pleased at her relaxed body language. She would look away at other "things" (lol) which told me she was not in the intense/want to kill mode. Her mouth was open, panting casually. So I put one pig out, had her on leash and made her sit a little ways away. Her body language remained relaxed with some curiosity. Then I held the pig and let her sniff, and she did a playbow. From her body language, I could tell she was intrigued and curious, but had no intention of wanting to hurt the pig. Never made contact with the piggie using her mouth :-) Everything went better than expected. At this stage, all interaction would be supervised. I have full trust with Sunshade and Jaffa :-)

Saphie wasn't nurturing towards the piggies like Sunshade is, but she was gentle and playful towards the piggies much like uncle Jaffa. She fell asleep beside piggie after a little while.

Of course, all this had to be done AWAY from Sunshade lol....)

When I was done Reiki, I sensed something was SuperWRONG!! So I told Auntie Helen to LET ME OUT of the house!!!

I saw what was going on, and I gave mum a SuperDISAPPROVING look,

I hurried over to make sure MY Sesame piggie was unharmed.....

That's right! Put your tail down and slink away STINKY #3!!!

Leave ME & MY Sesame piggie alone!!!

(mum: Sunshade never made a peep. She came out, and "looked" at Saphie. The look alone was enough to get "space & respect" from Saphie. Saphie is such a lovely girl, very mature for her age. She is able to read dog body language beautifully and is very respectful towards other dogs. She had a couple of "Sunshade lessons" early on, and took them to heart :-))

Do you know what else STINKY #3 did other than terrorizing MY Sesame piggie? (mum: She didn't terrorize your piggie Sunshade!)

She went and stunk up MY SuperHOLES!!!!!

 

(mum: Saphie is a digger, just like Sunshade. Jaffa doesn't dig at all, and neither does Stella, his sister (aka STINKY #2 by Sunshade). I just LOVE this line of Airedales. They are all so different, yet they are all so smart and connected with their people. They are those dogs that when you look into their eyes, you know they GET you!)

Cirque du STINKY

It was a SuperHOT day, but mum still wanted me to wear a t-shirt for a few more days to make her feel better since my staples only came out a couple of days ago.

We came across these SuperCOLOURFUL rockies, and I was looking for one with my name on it, 

I thought I found it, 

 

But mum said I couldn't touch it!!! WHY NOT??? I want a special colourful rockie too!

 

Then it was lunch time for mum, and Cirque du STINKY commenced, 

 

During intermission.....

 

It's MINE, go do your show STINKY!

 

So he did..... 

 

The second half of Cirque du STINKY, 

 

Front row seat for me.......

 

WTH is going on now?

 

Ok, he really needs to learn a new trick......

 

"I want a REFUND!!!" 

(or you can insert any caption for this picture, taken my expression into consideration)

After the show ended, I met my pup-fans, 

 

Everyone needs a SuperDALE :-)