We are home

Monday afternoon, 5:25 p.m. and no sign of the pawrents; they lock the doors at 5:30. We thought for sure we were going home since we had our baths and grooming in the morning. We were all set to settle down in our luxury suite when the room service dude came strolling in with the keys. With only two minutes to spare, Mom and Dad had made it. We were so excited that we almost knocked Mom over when we saw her. Into the sibehicle and home in no time.

But what's this? What happened to our yard while we were gone?

Thunder here, I am trying to figure out where all these leaves came from. And what's up with all the new colors?
Look at those two trees behind the playset!

Mom says she is so disappointed because the one to the left of the playset is almost bare. It is one of the two Purple Ash trees in the back. They turn the prettiest color of burgundy plum but somehow from Friday to Monday they went from green to burgundy to yellow and then . . . .

. . . . they all came tumbling down to the ground.

Why do things have to change? And did you notice how I have changed - I am all white and clean again. I need to find some mud to normalize myself again.

So we tried to figure out what the humans did all weekend but all we heard was that they did a lot of watching sports and eating and shopping and eating and sleeping and eating. Here are a few of the pics we found on the flashy beast.

This is the front yard at our human brother's place. Pretty white roses.

In the back, they have a koi pond where Mom spotted these two lavender beauties.

Here is a closeup - it really is pretty, isn't it?

But we pups would have been a lot more interested in these two big guys. Mom said they used to have about six of them, but some evil critters come in the yard at night and steal them.

As noted above, there was a lot of eating going on this weekend. These are some barbecued Korean ribs that they cooked on the grill along with some steaks, burgers and apple/chicken sausages. And that doesn't include all the eating out they did at Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese restaurants. Mom said everything was just delicious.

And this is a special dessert from some Chinese bakery that our human brother's wife loves. Mom and Dad both agreed it was very good.

There was a lot of sports to watch too. The human brother is a USC graduate and USC played Notre Dame Saturday. So a few college friends came over for the afternoon to watch the game and EAT. Did we say there was a lot of eating going on? And USC won - a very exciting game at the very end.

The little grandbiped also had a basketball game in the morning on Saturday and they all went to that too. Mom had some video but blogger wasn't being too cooperative today, and we aren't patient enough to wait for her to do it a different way. She said it was a fun game with little five year olds trying to learn about dribbling and traveling and foul shots, whatever all that means.

And then there was also the big Yankees v. Angels game that went into extra innings. The humans were all happy that the Yankees won, the whole family are transplanted New Englanders. We won't talk about Monday's game.

We started our post showing you how happy TD was to be home and inspecting the new look to his yard. Anyone wonder where Phantom is? All we need to tell you is that his first night home was very much disrupted by some loud and heavy thunderstorms.

He retreated to his safe zone.

Don't worry, I will be better tomorrow and I will let Mom take some pics of me - I am nice and white too and my tail is super fluffy. For today, I just need to hide out for a bit.

Woos, the OP Pack