Saturday we had an 8am ring time. We all love 8am ring times, huh? :) I snapped a picture of the beastie - I thought he was lookin' pretty nice :) Still lost to the Smith's dog again - but he wasn't even reserve on Saturday. :( Boo.
I have a friend who lives in Whittier, CA who i've known since 1996. His name is Julio, and we met when we both had CRX's... :) Long story. Anyway, he came down to the area to spend the 4th of July with me. We haven't seen each other in 11 years!!!
We headed out to Malibu. He wanted to go to a place called
Neptune's Net so we headed out along the PCH (which I had never driven before!!!!) Do take a minute to go to the website and check out the pictures.... They're amazing, and the food was great! We had a nice Lobster dinner and shared a pitcher of Pilsner :)
This was the view from our seat at Neptune's Net....
and a zoomed in view of the water...
After we ate, we went across the street to the beach, so we could let the dogs play. After the experience on Thursday with the dogs and the water, I wasn't expecting much... I expected the dogs to steer clear of the water....
This picture is a PERFECT example of the excitement Sedona showed for the water...
a photograph of some Pelicans flying overhead...
a seagull flying just over the waves... *sigh* how beautiful is this??
Kota, being the gooddog, got let off leash first. I had forgotten their actual COLLARS at the hotel room, so I couldn't put them on flexi-leads... They're pretty good with recalls, so i figured I'd give it a shot. I had no doubt about Kota - my super obedient wonder-dog! :)
You can see how excited Kota got about the beach too! I don't remember him being so excited about it when we went in Oregon!
In this picture, you can see Kota mid-jump from the water.... I thought it was too funny! :) Chance was very interested by this point too!
The beautiful surf...
Kota, running free, loving his Independence Day romp on the beach...
Next to be released was Sedona. She's got a pretty darned good recall and is remarkably obedient given her general demeanor of "I'll do it when I want to".. LOL She TORE off running and I don't think the smile has left her face YET!
Sedona and Kota face off in a frap on the beach... what a wonderful time they were having, as Chance watches...
Sedona REALLY surprised me with how daring she was with the water! You can see, Kota is at about where the water was coming in, and Sedona just charged those waves sometimes! She only scared me once, thankfully!
Finally, I decided to let Chance off lead too... I've never had a problem with a recall on him, and with the other two being fairly solid, and knowing he'll follow them, I wasn't concerned. Not to mention, we were the only folks on the beach! :) Commence insanity - the dogs began to have a BLAST!!!!
Running and frapping together on the beach - what better way to spend the 4th of July??
The trio heading towards the water again...
I had a great time just watching THEM have a great time... Julio and I laughed SO HARD as we watched the dogs play on the beach!
My dogs are NOT water dogs. If given a baby pool, they spend more time in it if it's empty... You'd never have known that on this trip!
Run puppies run! They had SUCH an awesome time!!!!
and the recall! ;-)
out playing in the surf again...
can you see the intoxication in her eyes??? :) I almost feel bad for not living nearer to a beach so she can play!!!!
Sedona and Chance coming back towards me...
out playing and running again...
such a beautiful sight, watching three beautiful Cardigans running on the beach....
Kota found something interesting to roll in... *sigh* stinky dog!!
daring little critters!!
go Sedona go!
such beautiful waves...
After a little while, we got back in the car and decided to go find a place to watch the sunset... We went up the PCH a bit to
Pt Mugu where we found a pretty quiet little chunk of beach.... we sat down in the sand and just enjoyed the evening on the beach....
and the beginning of the sunset progression....
and the end of the sunset progression... it was beautiful. simply beautiful.
and the mountain behind us across the street.
It was a great day - the sights, the food, the company, the fun.... :) This day made the whole trip well worth while ;-)
On Sunday the kids and I met up with Joanie and her kids to go to the park.... first we let the dogs just RUN FREE in the enclosed baseball field to get some energy out.... 
The 4-some... it was much more difficult than I had planned, to get this picture! Whew!! Sorry it's a bit overexposed... in order to get the dogs in a decent light so you could see them, I ended up having to overexpose the background some :(
a pooped, but very cute, Piper...
Very happy, tired puppy!
the looooong dog ends up wearing his leash as a belt... weirdo!
another shot of the 4-some... :) 
Look close! I'm missing my two front bottom teeth!!!
Joanie LOVES Piper... so I grabbed some cute shots.... 
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They all crashed and slept like logs for hours yesterday afternoon... I think they had a good time! I love it now that the weather is cooling off... no a/c all day today and I've managed! WOW! First time since April! :)
