A special visit, the good and the bad!

Our beautiful granddaughter!
Little K enjoying the fountains!
Granddad and granddaughter.
A shot of the family and the bridge.

These posts are long overdue, but I have internet access again, so I am planning to catch up. It just might tak e a little while. Well as many of you know we are moving so I can go to pharmacy school. The way everything panned out in the end we are renting a townhouse. Unfortunately for us, our dog Ellie is one of the breeds they do not allow. So we called our oldest son K, who lives on the east coast with his daughter K, and asked if he would like to have Ellie. He wholeheartedly agreed. We examined all the possible avenues for us to get Ellie out to him, drive and take a vacation, fly one of us with her, fly just her, etc. We decided that the best route for all of us was to fly K and K out to see us and send Ellie back with them. We just were not real keen on sending her by herself. So we got to see K and our granddaughter K for the weekend. (I found a fare deal for a weekend trip.) They arrived on Saturday and we drove back to our home and just relaxed. Little K and our granddaughter K had quite a unique relationship. You could definitely tell that they are both only children with minds of their own, but all in all I would say they got along. It was interesting to watch them as they both wanted to be in charge, from picking movies to who went down the stairs first. On Sunday we decided to make it our fun day, we drove about 45 miles to a small town swimming pool, that is a little bit of a water park. Little K loved it, he is such a water boy (he won't get out of the tub until he has "grandma hands"). We even got to go down the big waterslide twice, before we were told he would have to go down by himself or not at all. He was just too afraid to go through the initial wall of water at the top. Our granddaughter K takes after her dad and is not fond of swimming. She would go in the pool with one of us, but would not play in the little pool by herself. From there we drove to this amazing steel drawbridge that spans the Yellowstone River and into a railroad tunnel that goes through a curved hill so that when you are in the middle you are in pitch black darkness. Then on to a special pizza parlor that we love. On Monday both K's and Ellie boarded the plane to return to their home. The ticket agents were not real happy to see us, but Ellie made it on board, all 117 pounds of her and the kennel. We really enjoyed our visit, but we all miss Ellie and our family. In our new place the blinds in the living room sound just like Ellie scratching the door when they rub against the window sill. We know she is where she needs to be, and I am sure that K is taking better care of her than I would have time to. It is true that your pet is part of your family.