Well, today was the absolute most gorgeous day. Warm, breezy, and sunny. First we took the dogs to the James Island dog park. Of course, we had to leave dominant yappy Foo-Foo in the car. We took Pippy in on the leash to check out the atmosphere. There were all sorts and sizes. After a while we took her off leash and she ran right to the only black standard poodle in the park. She looked so happy until she smelled him and realized it wasn't her Digger. Then her tail dropped between her legs. The park has really changed since the last time I was there. Now they even have a water park.
After that, we drove 45 minutes further south to Edisto Island. There is a gorgeous state park beach there. We must have walked two miles with the pups. Edisto Beach is the shelling beach. If you walk down toward the peninsilla, you find the good shells. We found lots of oyster, clam, and scallop shells. Our motherlode was finding 3 complete conch shells. We found lots of broken ones, but whole ones are da bomb. The loggerhead turtles nest on this island.
Needless to say, after four hours on the beach, we are all red. But, as Millie says, "At least now people will know we went somewhere!" We had to give the pups showers when we got back to get all the salt and sand out of their hair. I think we finally exhausted them.
Tonight we finally met up with our friend, Broxanne. She has 3 great danes, 3 maltese and 1 yorkie. We watched her at a training class where she was training 3 of her dogs for dog competition. We left ours in the car for fear of embarassment. As soon as we came back to our room the girls started training them, or vice versa. We'll see if the enthusiasm continues.
We are sad that this is our last day here, but it sure was a good one. Tomorrow we head for home, we're hoping to make it back to Louisville by tomorrow night, and then home on Saturday in time for Easter. We're all missing Papa, Digger and our friends. There's supposed to be bad thunderstorms for our travels tomorrow. Yippee!
Here are todays pics of Edisto State Park Beach:
Love to all...
