Friday night out

So last night all of us boys got to go downtown.  Yup.  Friday night in the big city.  But not exactly what we expected.

It was Friday afternoon and my human got home from work.  We did the extra-joyful-it’s-Friday greeting which is really not ALL that different from our greeting ANY day– and she took all of us out for a run and some playing outside.  We wanted to get back in quickly, though, because we knew it was dinner time.  We chowed down our dinner only to discover that our human was going OUT for dinner with some of the neighbors, to the golf course up the road.  We were a BIT annoyed because, really, weekends are supposed to be all about US.  But she went anyway.

She came home and we repeated the extra-joyful-it’s-Friday greeting again.  We each went out for a pee and THEN my human discovered something.  Her laptop was missing.  Paxton just looked at her as if to say “I take LOTS of things – but I didn’t take the computer."  My human realized she must have left it at the office.  Well, humans have a lot of attachment to those computer things – probably because hers contains 26,000 photos.  25,000 of which are of us dogs.  And yes – she DOES have a backup drive….but she really couldn’t go to sleep wondering exactly where that laptop was.  So – she opened the garage door, and opened the door to Harold, and whooo-hooo - road trip at 9 last night.   And what a joyful ride it was going to downtown Halifax.  It takes about 25 minutes from our house – IF there is not much traffic.  So it wasn’t bad last night.  Yes – a true joy – me squeaking all the way because I kept thinking we were actually going to go for a walk or something, Frodo growling at every pedestrian once we were in the city, and Paxton creating olfactory art on every window surface.  Once my human got to her office building, she ran in and we all waited.  She was relieved to find “her digital life scrapbook” and she happily returned to us.  And the joyful 25 minute ride home. 

So that was our big Friday night downtown.  No restaurants, movies, theaters or pubs for US.  But a good car ride is a good car ride – and as long as we are with our human – we’re happy!  And so the weekend continues!  I hope yours is great!

© Linda Wozniak