Dog Days of Summer

Cool Hand Luke

 While it IS the dog days of summer, the post title is actually a nod to the fact that we actually attended the local canine festival "Dog Days of Summer" last weekend.  We were feeling bad that Spumoni has been left out of many of our activities this summer, so wanted to do something just for him.  Neighboring town Libertyville had this dog festival going on so we went over there on Sunday.  It was really neat seeing the "dock jumping" competition, especially.  Those dogs have some kind of long jumping skills!  There were tons of dogs there, and of course we were stopped every two minutes to answer the always-asked question "What kind of dog is that?".

Spumoni enjoying his "doggy snowcone" which was shaved ice with gravy over it.

"I like this place"

Look at that jump!

After the dog festival we hit up another local activity, Greek Fest!  We went for the gyros, to be honest, but it was a cute little local church festival and Luke loved the kiddie bounce house.  He didn't want to get out.

Other big news of the weekend is that Grandpa and Gram bought an 18' speedboat!  On Saturday we accompanied them on their test drive and everyone gave the thumbs up.  It is a perfect boat for what they are wanting, which is something to fish on (for Grandpa) and to take the family out on boat rides/ski/tubing on occasion.  We are excited for them and excited for us, since they say we can use it too whenever we want!

It was fun just going on the test ride!

There she is!  Now she just needs a name!

Big plate of food at lunch after the boat test drive

We also hit a park last weekend.  We had such great weather!  The heat finally broke and it was a perfect 82 degree day.

Just reading myself a book.  All BY myself!