Rupert and Hugo's Adventurous Day

Rupert and Hugo had a very adventurous day on Sunday.

After breakfast they got in the car and set off on a long, long drive.

The car stopped in Rockbank and they got very excited, thinking we had arrived at our destination.  But no.  We had stopped for toasted sandwiches.  They were happy to be fed a second breakfast.  We were happy to have our first :-D

The car stopped again in Mornington and they were very excited again.  But we still hadn't got to where we were going.  And there were no toasted sandwiches this time.  Lindsey and I had gone into Tully's for supplies.

Finally we got to Mount Martha.  Hooray! This time we had arrived.  We had gone to Grandma Stella and Grandpa Tony's place for lunch. Rupert and Hugo were very well behaved.  They didn't knock anyone over. They didn't eat the lunch while it was being prepared. They didn't eat Grandma Stella's teddies. They did have a nice run around in the courtyard and a play with their own teddies and they did snuggle Stella. I think they had a good time.

Then we got back in the car and Rupert and Hugo settled in for the long drive back. They were much surprised when the car stopped just three or four minutes later.  They were even more surprised to look out the window and see that we were at a park.  And there were LOTS of Great Danes in the park. It was another Great Dane meet.  We all got out of the car and went into the park.  It was a gated off-lead park for dogs!  This was very exciting. They ran and ran and ran and ran and ran.  Some of the dogs had been at Lake Wendouree a fortnight ago.  Others were new friends.  There were about 12 Great Danes, a deerhound, a mastiff of some sort and two Great Dane puppies. Confusingly, there was another Dane called Hugo and he was also a blue dane!!  Fortunately Lindsey had brought bandanas for her dogs so we could tell them apart from all the other blue and black dogs.

Great Danes gathering

Hugo and Rupert RUNNING

Rupert

Hugo

They slept well in the car on the way home!

Jim and I had quite an exciting weekend too.  Not only did we accompany Rupert, Hugo and Lindsey on their adventure on Sunday but on Saturday we had been unexpectedly summoned up to Hill House for dinner.  Ian wanted to use the rotisserie on his barbecue. So we packed up and went up for the night, to feast on rotisseried tandoori chicken. Much more exciting than the sesame salmon that I had been thinking of

I have been looking at the photos I have taken this year with a view to putting some into folders for the calendars I make at Christmas.  I seem to have lots of photos of dogs, lots of photos of sunsets and sunrises and not very much else.  They are not going to be very exciting calendars at this rate :-D