THE PINKIE LEURADALES WERE HERE!!!!

Welllllllllll, a lot has been happening in the house of A+A..... But most importantly we must tell you we have not posted in awhile because PL2's camera broke.......More on that in awhile!!! so we had very very important visitors from across the world.......You just cannot believe who came to visit us..Well actually you already know because they went to visit Asta and Maggie and Mitch too!!!!! The pinkes and NOAH AND THE GIRLS!!!!!!!(well flat Noah but it was almost the same thing...)

Now here is the camera part....One day before they came to visit PL2's CAMERA BROKE...ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? and she was working...so PL1 GOT HER ONE AS A SURPRISE!!!! so she could take pinkie pictures!!Now they came over to meet us and have supper with PL1 and 2 only PL2 hadn't had a chance to look at the camera yet so we don't have any pics of that.....And let's just say that I thought they needed to truly see us at our finest so I sort of uhhhmmmmm BARKED ALL THE WAY THROUGH DINNER!!! HAHAHAHAH (I had ALOT of stuff to tell them.......)PL2 was NOT happy.. Then the next day they went Boston touring...You know PL1 and 2..... THEY LOVE DOING THAT!!! Toffee and Riley and their Mom came on that tour(we stayed home cause it was REALLY hot)Here they are with Toffee and Riley(cause it was so hot Toffee and her brother only did a small part of the tour...)

( this is for Eric...check out those bedroom eyes...).....

SO they walked them EVERYWHERE they could cram in........ The North End..

The Harbor( or the Hahhhbor as some people think we say...)

(tee hee did you think that a PL1 and 2 tour of Boston wouldn't include JFK??!!!! this statue is at the State House..)

PL2 would have taken a lot more pictures but she really didn't know what she was doing with the camera( what else is new!) Meanwhile we were back at home entertaining flat Noah and the

girls....... LOOK AT THESE BEAUTIFUL BANANARAMADANAS they gave us!!!



hee hee can you tell I had had sweet potato for supper? Plus I am trying out a new modeling pose Lacie taught me...

Here is Arch showing Noah his crate.....

And here I am showing the girls my crate( I tidied mine up...he didn't...)

OF COURSE I was happy to show them our bed in the bomb shelter room.....

Archie spotting me...

I was telling them here if they turned around they could watch the squirrels( they don't have them CAN YOU IMAGINE?????)

Just a little girl talk........

Arch flirting with the girls.....

ME AND NOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!


Listen if you are coming ALL THE THAT WAY I HAD to let them in my bomb shelter.........

Here they are in the back of the car....


After all of that we were pooped....And then we have been listening to PL2 all week yelling about how she couldn't figure out how to get the pictures onto the computer....( a creature of habit she is....) That's why it took so long to post this!!!!

In case you were wondering how my bomb shelter is coming along with Archie here is a little picture PL2 took...but don't be fooled...

If a tree falls in the forest......

So Archie and PL1 were doing some male bonding stuff( don't you think his feet look like clown shoes? ha ) and PL2 and I said LETS GO IT IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY . PL2 met a lady in the pet store who told her about a place

that we HAD to go to............

Estabrook Woods in Concord Massachusetts......Now we have taken you on an A+A tour of historic Concord so now we are going to show you another part of Concord...These woods have a connection to Thoreau but PL2 has to look that up......

We had to park the car on this beautiful road.........

Look at this old barn........

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!! LOOK AT THE TOP SIGN!! OH BOY WE ARE GOING TO LOVE THIS PLACE(we are not quite sure what exactly a donkey is but we are hoping we run up with one...)

We passed these kids having lunch......

Past this pretty stone fence.....

AND THEN BLAM we were in the woods!!!!!!!!!!! HEAVEN THAT IS FOR SURE!!!!!!!

I of course immediately went into hunting mode....THIS PLACE WAS PACKED WITH STUFF........

Even Archie got into it a little......

Leave it to my brother...he found this tree with these cool mushrooms on it....He wanted to pick them and make them for supper but we told him he would be the only one eating them.....

We crossed a little brook.....

This picture is for Eric..He thinks that I don't seem to get dirty when I go walking......


And we went up a hill and Archie said LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!!

It was a lovely pond full of lily pads.......

Now here is the question....if a tree falls and there is no one there....... (Archie said he thought that it was stupid...)

LOOK AT ME ON TOP OF THIS BOULDER!!! I look a little green.....

FABULOUS SMELLS.......

The other side of the lily pad pond......

Some beautiful ferns......

My brother is ecstatic........

He said this would make this place his.......



He is telling me a little joke( you know him...)

Oh we loved this place.......And there are 840 acres of it.We don't think we did that many and we read there are apple orchards and places to swim( IN THE WOODS) and all kinds of stuff......And guess what?You know how our Arboretum is owned by Harvard? So is this place!!!!!!

So here we are going back to the car.....

This rock fence is very interesting.....

Man would this be a great place to play!!!( it is part of someones YARD)

Then we came home and had a bath( not really what we would have planned but......) and now we are EXHAUSTED!!!! And so, A+A give this place two paws up.....