welcome to our blog! we're a peruvian-american couple - got married in cusco, peru in 2010 and moved down under to australia. we started this blog to keep everyone up to date with our adventures...which have been many and varied. and now we have embarked on an entirely new journey! our family grew by 2 very cute feet on november 4th!!!
woke up bright and early, well not as early as jose poor thing, and went to the derby dog walk this morning at our town oval. signed miski up, helped her burn off some energy on the field, and then we all went walking for about 30 minutes to raise money for our animal welfare group. had a sausage sizzle and snow-cones (yes!) and other treats. even some home baked doggie treats that miski was all over! then they set up an agility course and people competed for prizes. miski is far too ill behaved for such activities. but we did come prepared for the fancy dress part. i put her little raincoat on and her fire chief hat i made for her yesterday and she took first prize! so what if only 4 dogs entered. and i know this classifies me as a crazy dog lady and yet i don't care. these pics show our town oval with participants, me with miski, miski with her spoils for winning first prize, and miski with her outfit on. more pics under the Derby 2011 album. then after a bunch of friends/co-workers came over and we all made a couple of dishes to share and to teach other's the recipes. it was good fun and the food was amazing. i made salteñas :) now for a nap.
i happily got back from the course in time to bring miski and jose to the puppy parade at the park around the corner from us. no time to enter her and she's a bit too, exuberant, shall we say. anyway many other dogs were there, all dressed up. all our neighbor dogs were there too! there was a horse for poo bingo (wherever the horse poos, the person who selected that square wins a prize). i wanted to win, but alas i did not. there were hot dogs and drinks and snow cones (my very favorite, how i missed those). it was still really hot out and i was exhausted from the day so we watched for a bit and then headed home, ordered some pizza and had an early night. sadly can't get down to broome this weekend b/c the river is about to flood over our bridge between the towns. i might go and check that out!
