Chicago Shopping

Bunny here at the keyboard with a tale about our special Sunday outing.

Remember back when I asked for help with that contest on Facebook?  Well, thanks to a lot of help from my friends, I was able to win this time.  Thank you to everybody who clicked "like" for me in the Voyager's K9 Apparel contest!  We got the gift certificate in the mail this week and we found out that they were going to be vending at the Greyhounds Only reunion up in Chicago.  We asked them to bring a coat for Blueberry and we made our plans to go to the reunion.

The reunion was fantastic!  There were Greyhounds everywhere to sniff.  Of course, there was also shopping to be done.  We picked out Blueberry's coat and I tried on some boots.  After our outing on Saturday, I can't say that I think I'd mind them too much.  Mom and Dad are hoping we're going to get to go out and do a little hiking this winter and they should help me keep warm and dry while we're out in the snow.  Of course, just walking around town I won't need them, but I do like the idea of my feet not freezing off out in the tundra. 

Anyroo, I saw all kinds of fabulous finds, but we didn't find a ton of stuff.  One of the most exciting parts was seeing my friend Jackson up there.  He and his sister, Emma, stayed with us for a week back when his mom had to take a trip for a funeral.  I liked him a lot better when we saw him today and we hear that he's grown up a lot and learned some manners.  I have to agree that he has!  He's big enough that I could walk under him without having to bend down at all.  Hopefully we'll be able to get together with him and Emma soon!

I think shopping and mingling was a good distraction for Blueberry, too.  She got to sniff a lot, and I was nice and walked with Dad so that she could be with Mom.  Don't believe any rumors that you hear that I was not listening to Mom like I should have been there.  Even if that were true, there were hundreds of hounds there that I had to sniff!   I mean, really, a girl needs to make acquaintances.  Shopping was a little tough, though, because people kept stopping to fuss over Blueberry and me.  For my friends who are not Greyhounds, I should explain that Blueberry is an unusual color for Greyhounds and often when people see it, they make a big fuss about it.  Blue didn't seem to mind, even with everybody patting her head.  I think she's mainly just happy that she's got a stylish coat to wear when we go out this winter. 

We would like to thank everybody for all their good wishes, thoughts and prayers for Blue.  She goes in tomorrow morning for her surgery, and Mom will hopefully pick her up and bring her home after work.  Then we can give her a thorough sniff over and let her rest.  We'll all be together with her on Thursday, too.  We will post an update Thursday morning about how she's doing.  I'll try to get her to let me post a picture of her new hairdo when she gets home, but I can't promise she will.  In case you didn't know, we Greyhounds are a little vain.