Two days in one.

Thursday was a day at home for me while Em worked all day. I blogged, caught up on emails, procrastinated, got some housework done, some washing, procrastinated some more, did some cleaning and cooked some meals for when Em came home. At least that's what I remember doing... now that I'm blogging this almost two weeks later. :-)

Em and I think that we went to the gym after dinner. We are gymaholics and knew that we would not have access to one for several days in Chicago, so we probably did go and do a workout, or at least we hope we did.

So, that was Thursday. I promise it was a lot more fun than what I'm making it sound like it was in this blog.

On Friday, Em didn't have to work so we had a lovely breakfast together at home where we talked -- about what, I can't remember. :-)

We went to the gym at lunch, in the hope that we'd see the hot guy that Em tells me about, but he wasn't there. We keep missing him. Maybe he's a figment of her imagination. ;-)

After gym we had lunch at Panera Bread, then went to Target for some last minute supplies before Chicago. I got some more iron tablets because I'm almost out of the ones I got back home, and we picked up some bars and drinks to supplement our hotel/take-away food in Chicago.

After shopping we collected the dogs and drove to the Bark Park. Crash sucked his baby doll in the back seat.
At the park, Em had to collect the gate key from the main office.
Crash and Lucky waited patiently,
Then it was party time!!!
Crash behaved beautifully, greeting other dogs with a sniff and a wag, then racing off to chase or be chased. When he gets excited he barks and barks and barks and rather than be annoying, it's endearing. He took off after a greyhound but couldn't catch it. I wish I could have recorded his attempt on video. He is a super fast dog, being a bird-dog, but he was no match for this sprinting greyhound and I couldn't help but laugh at his attempt to keep pace.

The Bark Park is on grounds owned by The Wayside Waifs, an animal shelter and education facility. Access to the park is via a small fee and an electronic gate pass, and the two leash free areas are double gated. The larger dogs have a sizeable area, but the small dogs get a comparatively smaller area to run around in.

We stayed until the sun had well and truly gone down and the lights had come on. The dogs piled back into the car and home we went to a dinner of beans, veggies and whatever else we could salvage from the fridge that we were sure would not last the week we would be away.

After dinner we packed, stuffed, discussed the advantages and disadvantages of taking an extra case for whatever goodies we would buy, decided to just take a soft backpack instead as well as the two cases and two backpacks... surely we wouldn't buy *that* much stuff. Famous last words! *lol*

Then we collapsed into bed to get a restless sleep because we had to leave the house by 6am.

Next... Chicago!! :-)