Another addition to our growing family was a Chevy Suburban, my dream ride : ) I have wanted a Suburban for a few years and always make a point of renting one on business trips. We drove "Burban," as I have named her, to Ft. Myers, Florida for Thanksgiving with our finally-healthy, and wonderful foster Dane Paisley, Sierra, Quay and Rainey. When God invented mounted DVD players for vehicles, He sure knew what He was doing. What...God didn't invent those? Well, they were divinely inspired.
The trip was wonderful. My in-laws installed a pool heater (also a God-inspired invention), so we spent 7 days trying to coax two wimpy Danes to get in and swim with us. We did dunk them once to get the sand off of them, and I thought Sierra was never going to speak to me again.
Thanksgiving dinner was prepared for us by the delightful people at a beach hotel. We loaded 9 family members into Burban and because of bathroom stops and D's "shortcut" took an hour to make the 20 minute drive to the beach. Although most of the food had been frozen before neatly displayed on the buffet line, we were all so grateful for food they could have served Fruit Loops and we would have eaten it.
The highlight of the trip, you ask? The dog beach. 2 trips got Paisley a sunburn, but the salt water healed her persistent foot infection and she was finally 100% healthy. Paisley had the time of her life on the beach and we had all fallen in love with her. I asked Duane what he wanted for Christmas a few weeks ago and his answer was simple...Paisley. I paid her adoption fee and will somehow manage to get her under the Christmas Tree Saturday.
Foster Failure signing off.
