Spring is in Full Swing

Saturday was quite the eventful day here in Cville. There was a parade celebrating the Dogwood Festival. The flowering dogwood is the state flower. They are in full bloom and absolutely gorgeous. Hopefully I will remember the camera on our next walk. There was also the weekly city market which runs from April to November. And then there was Foxfield Races.

Anyway, we started the day with a family trip to the city market to check out the vendors. I checked their website to see if pets were allowed. They didn't mention it so we brought Theo only to find out that he was not allowed in. So we brought him back home. Most vendors were selling plants to grow veggies. Duh! You have to wait for the veggies to grow before they can sell them. So we left the market empty handed. There are also people selling food, art, jewelry and flowers and some raising money or awareness for causes. It's pretty neat.

Since the market is downtown we headed to the other side of the downtown mall to the parade route. Michael apparently loves parades. Did you know this?
We were really amazed to see the side of Cville that you don't see every day. Think Mardi Gras minus the alcohol. We saw a lady hit her kid and the people standing next to us lit up some cigarettes. It certainly wasn't the same crowd from the city market. Nevertheless we stayed for a good bit of the parade. Long enough to see Santa, some people doing figure eights on Seg Ways,
and a group of women Jazzercising down the route. I think the Jazzercisers were the highlight.

After sitting around the house all day, hiding from the heat (it's in the 90's), we went to our friends' house (who are raising a German Shepherd to be a service dog) for a play date. They have a deck that has a platform low enough to the ground for Theo to run under with no problem. It was fun to see him running around. When he runs, he reminds me of Falkor, the luck dragon, from The Neverending Story.

I almost forgot to mention- Theo's Hippo has returned. You may remember it from this video. It was his first love and we lost it when we went to Kentucky for Thanksgiving. Henry was recently seen playing with it and Michael was able to locate it. Theo and Hippo had a lot of catching up to do.