Puppy's First Hike

Yesterday was a special first day for our young puppy, because we took her out on her first ever hike! For the first one my mother decided the best place to go would be back to Mount Falcon Park in Conifer, Colorado. I have to admit that the park trails are fairly flat and to get to the end of the first trail is maybe a ten minute walk (or twenty, hard to tell when one is hiking).

The Puppy sitting on a Rock

My father decided to make the trip a little bit more difficult by forgetting to bring the dog cover for his car's backseat. I ended up carrying the puppy on my lap the whole trip, it was a wreckage waiting to happen. She wanted to look out one window, then look out another window, then look out the front window, then get comfortable, and then repeat; but all of those were unattainable because she could not move from my lap. I struggled with her the entire ride up and I have to say I was not a happy camper.

When we arrived, we got her out of the car, I brushed off the mountain of dog fur that had accumulated from her fighting to stay on my lap the whole way up, and then the four of us started hiking down the trail (literally down, because we were at the top). The puppy was as happy as could be, running this way and that, sniffing at this and that, and trying to run up to every single person that we passed. Yet for the people the hike was slightly less enjoyable. We spent most of our time trying to control her and stopping her from eating things she should not be putting in her mouth. Still, all of us managed to have a great time out on the trail. 

When we got to the castle ruins (the Walker family house ruins, but everyone calls it the castle ruins), I took several pictures of our pup sitting on rocks and in the sunset. She seemed less happy to pose than to walk down the dirt path, but I did not care. I wanted a photograph to commemorate and remember this first of many adventures she is going to take! Afterwards we all started back, and she was just as happy as before. 

Back at the car we put down her water bowel and filled it, she drank up, and then it was another horrific car ride of her on my lap all the way back to the house...

Skip This: Due Date

Movie Poster for Due Date

So it was another night, another movie I was not sure I wanted to watch, and another couple of hours of my life I wish I could get back. I'll have to admit that when I first watched the theatrical trailer for this movie, I was pretty sure I would not like it, because I could already tell that Zach Galigianakis was going to play the exact same character role he did in the Hangover while Robert Downey Jr played the same character role he is known for. Add on top of that some jokes that just are not really that funny nor interesting, and I figured that was the movie. Still, I had nothing to do that night and I needed to pass the time, so I turned on Due Date with no care towards what might actually be seen and now I wish I could get my time back. If you are curious and want to know why I do not recommend this movie, then please continue reading my full review of Due Date.

Finally, My Car Evolves!

The Evolve Fish
[http://evolvefish.com]

For the past three years, my Mom has been promising me a special "evolve" fish emblem for my car. If you are curious to what an evolve fish is exactly, think of those Jesus Fish but something more for the scientific community.  It is a counter-symbol to say something versus the Jesus fish community, that I believe in evolution and science. Funny enough, after receiving the evolve fish today, I learned that there is a science fish as well, though it looks more like a rocket than a fish (the general shape and coloring is the same). See the link I've provided if you want to get your own! I would also like to just quickly state that while I love my new evolve fish symbol, I am not attacking those that believe in Jesus or the Jesus fish. He was my lord and savior too, I just also believe in evolution.

When they Arrived	The Magnet on the Back	The Sticker on the Dashboard

Well, today a small package arrived in the mail and my Dad handed it to me telling me he thought it was for me. I opened it up, and sure enough inside was not one, but two evolve fishies! One of the fishes was a magnet and one was a sticker. My Mom had order the two different types because we all felt that putting something like this on the back of my car was making a statement. That statement could be taken out of context by the christian community and they might either rip it off the back of my car or do something much worse. So the sticker portion of the fish will go on my dashboard where no one but my friends will see it and the magnet will be something I strap to the back of my car when my friends want to see what it looks like. After that, I will always take it off my car. After all, I do not want to lose my fishies!