Doglet Trip

Yay! I'm so excited! Today we have taken the day out to do a mini road trip to go visit Rupert, and see what he's like in person. The down side is that he's about 2.5 hours drive away from here, somewhere near Abergavenny in Wales and so we leave at around 11.30 am to get there in good time.

The drive is pretty good and I think both Phil and I both appreciated the virtues of air con in the car as the temperature outside remained at a steady 28 degrees all the way there, and all the way back for that matter (and this was at 6 pm!).

We did make a brief stop at the services so that Phil could get some lunch and I could eat my Caesar salad which I'd prepared before we headed off, only to be confronted with an army of Saga coaches which turned up at roughly the same time - actually they could have been there an hour before us for all I know as that's probably how long it took the old coots to get off the bus and all head for the toilets in unison - they were everywhere! It was like one of those garden mazes but instead of being lined with conifers it was lined with old people, who moved just enough every few seconds for you to lose any sense of direction and make you get very frustrated. I know I shouldn't complain and I know that I'll be old in the not so distant future, but blimey, we couldn't have picked our timing any better now could we? :)

Anyway, after Phil has eaten a rather rank burger from Wimpy and I've had my lunch we're back on the road once again and we arrive just on time to go and see Rupert - oohh and he's such a cute little white fluff ball :) He's a lovely temperament and already knows his name and wags his tail an awful lot too - he even settled down on Phil's lap quite happily and found a nice couchy spot between my boob and armpit to nestle down in. We also got to meet the "gang" of other dogs he's related to in some way or the other and they were all lovely as well. All very good natured an healthy so it wasn't a difficult decision to lay down the deposit money and arrange to pick Rupert up in 2 weeks once he's had his final vaccinations :)

And then we head off back home, where again we stop off at services because we're both starving (we spent a little longer with Rupert's breeder than expected - and here's me thinking I couldn't possibly meet anyone who spoke more than my mother!) and I struggle to find something suitable for me to nibble on to keep to my diet but manage to get some pistachios and Phil gets some over-sized monster burger from Burger King.

With food in tow we get home at around 7 pm after seeing a rather nasty accident on the other side of the motorway involving what appeared to be just one car, which from the seems of it had hit the gravel barrier in the middle of the carriage ways, lost control, flipped over several times, landed on its side and burst into flames. And judging from the number of paramedics huddled around the driver on the ground I think he probably didn't fair to well out of it all.

Posted by Abi on the June 10, 2006 9:25 PM