David and I were supposed to go to Seaside for 4 days for our 10 year anniversary. I was hesitant to go with the puppy because she is so young, and not fully vaccinated, so I figured I'd have to hold her the whole time (she is pudgy so that sounded kinda sucky).
So hubby decided to suprise me. I thought he was working the morning of our trip, but he was at a friend's house loading the truck with all of our camping gear that he had been sneaking over there.
We met 10 years ago at a job where we were tracking sex offenders for this foster family that had 10 of them living there. Our job was to basically monitor them so they didn't do anything to anyone. So for the first 3 months of our relationship, we were basically camping with this family.
So, how romantic...rig ht? Well, we went to the most GORGEOUS campsite EVER. Unfortunately, there were some BAD problems with this whole plan.
#1. We have a 7 week old not fully immunized puppy at a campground crawling with people/dogs.
#2. We didn't know that the govt. drained the lake of 1/2 the water recently because of a fish problem, this combined with a warm spring caused there to be BILLIONS of mosquitos and bees. STINGING bees.
#3. It was a 6 hour drive to the site so puppy was exhausted and totally beside herself by the time we got there.
So, after about 3 minutes down there, I got stung on the thumb by a bee, and by the time we had the campsite set up, we had both been bit about 30 times. We were sitting in our camp chairs and David says, OMG sweetie, look at our tent. I look over there and its like alfred hitchcock's 'the birds' only with bees. There are literally about 40 bees swarming in our tent. We killed most of them, then hurried up to close the tent, but every time I had to take Gossy out to go potty, they swarmed back in.
OMG. It was H#LL. So we got up this morning, looked at eachother, agreed we were OUTA there, and came home. 6 hour drive home, had to tear down camp, on zero sleep. Then on the way home, we stopped for lunch, and David came within an INCH of running over a pedestrian with our truck. I screamed 'SWEETIE STOP STOP'. He slammed on the breaks and the guy sorta dove out of the way. David was WAY too tired to be driving. Then we got home and puppy peed in the house. First time all week she has done that. I am SURE it is from all the confustion/trauma. I swear, I NEVER want to go on vacation anymore. I am so tired.
