Yo! Kai Here!
So for my 1st birthday Mom and Dad took me (and Lance) camping. It was GREAT! I had a ton of fun. Since we went in the middle of the week, we had the park (Bruce Peninsula National Park) mostly to ourselves, so we were able to hike and run around with Mom and Dad mostly off leash. We got to play in the water, though Lance was the one crazy enough to go swimming, I, more practically, prefer to be able to touch bottom when I'm in the water. Still it's a lot of fun. Dad throws things out into the water, Lance leaps in and goes to get them, and I wait on the shore and take them away from him. Lots of fun and I don't get my head wet.
Sleeping in the tent was great. If you haven't done it, it's sort of like crate training your parents. Except that the sides of the crate are soft. That, and when you wake up in the dark and nose your Dad to see if you can go out, he grumbles some. Still loads of fun.
About the only thing that wasn't great were the black flies! They kept biting the inside of my ears. Is that fair? Really? Geez! Mom and Dad were going to use Off® on our ears, but they weren't sure it was safe for puppies. Mom and Dad put up the dining tent and we spent the really buggy times in there.
Overall, camping gets a big 5 paws from me. Black flies, no paws.
Later,
Kai
BTW, my birthday was May 3rd, you all know that right? I expected at least 1-2 kilos of aged cheddar. Perhaps you forgot to put it in the mail.
