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July 4: Fireworks + July 5: Dog Park
Jul. 5th, 2021 08:08 pmYesterday after making the fruit salad, we did go to Golden for their fireworks show. (Ours were on the 3rd, and were *just* visible from our apartment if we crammed our faces into the glass of the kitchen window, lol. We thought they'd be a bit farther north and hence more visible but alas.)
Cy came with because he has far worse anxiety around being left at home than he does about fireworks. It's pretty common for service dogs, but even in "retirement", he has a hard time being away from Alex.
Cy wore a silly hat! It is amazing to me how many people stop and say something when he wears a hat. He's a cute dog (I'm biased), but when you add a hat, EVERYONE loses their minds, hahaha. Within a couple of minutes, he had double digit numbers of people either cooing and laughing at it, asking to pet him, making comments on it. (My favorite was "That is clearly a cool dog on his way to do very cool things.") He has another silly one, with ear flaps and reindeer antlers, for the winter, and that one has gotten people in other cars pointing and laughing at red lights.
Cy brings joy to the masses, is what I'm saying.
Look at him!!
( 3 more pics from the 4th including a lovely mural: )
Unfortunately, the mosquitoes were out in frankly ridiculous quantities. They loved the dog - I felt like I spent most of the afternoon and especially evening smacking him to kill them, lol. (And it's good that he's so chill he doesn't really care that we were swatting him, lol.)
I racked up quite the kill count, but they were relentless. I have SO MANY bites today...
Alex did not appreciate me presenting him with every mosquito corpse. I tried to convince him that 12 years is the Mosquito Anniversary, but I don't think he believed me.
The fireworks were pretty good. We managed to find the exact right spot to sit on a ball field, despite not knowing where the fireworks would be in relation to the rest of the park. The show was a little bit low behind a tree line, and they didn't turn off the stadium lights which didn't help, but it was still pretty good. :)
And then today we went to the dog park, so that Cy could run some energy off. (Though it was hot, so he only made it about twenty minutes total.)
He knows what the words "dog park" mean, and if you say them to him in the car, he will bark the entire way there, which is funny because he rarely barks otherwise.
"Throw the ball! Throw it again!!"
( Six more pictures from the dog park, mostly of birds: )
And then everyone came home and took a nap.
Cy came with because he has far worse anxiety around being left at home than he does about fireworks. It's pretty common for service dogs, but even in "retirement", he has a hard time being away from Alex.
Cy wore a silly hat! It is amazing to me how many people stop and say something when he wears a hat. He's a cute dog (I'm biased), but when you add a hat, EVERYONE loses their minds, hahaha. Within a couple of minutes, he had double digit numbers of people either cooing and laughing at it, asking to pet him, making comments on it. (My favorite was "That is clearly a cool dog on his way to do very cool things.") He has another silly one, with ear flaps and reindeer antlers, for the winter, and that one has gotten people in other cars pointing and laughing at red lights.
Cy brings joy to the masses, is what I'm saying.
Look at him!!
( 3 more pics from the 4th including a lovely mural: )
Unfortunately, the mosquitoes were out in frankly ridiculous quantities. They loved the dog - I felt like I spent most of the afternoon and especially evening smacking him to kill them, lol. (And it's good that he's so chill he doesn't really care that we were swatting him, lol.)
I racked up quite the kill count, but they were relentless. I have SO MANY bites today...
Alex did not appreciate me presenting him with every mosquito corpse. I tried to convince him that 12 years is the Mosquito Anniversary, but I don't think he believed me.
The fireworks were pretty good. We managed to find the exact right spot to sit on a ball field, despite not knowing where the fireworks would be in relation to the rest of the park. The show was a little bit low behind a tree line, and they didn't turn off the stadium lights which didn't help, but it was still pretty good. :)
And then today we went to the dog park, so that Cy could run some energy off. (Though it was hot, so he only made it about twenty minutes total.)
He knows what the words "dog park" mean, and if you say them to him in the car, he will bark the entire way there, which is funny because he rarely barks otherwise.
"Throw the ball! Throw it again!!"
( Six more pictures from the dog park, mostly of birds: )
And then everyone came home and took a nap.
