Giants Game

We dropped Ruger off with Dan and Lisa early on Saturday morning so we could go to a Giants game with my company.  We took the ferry to San Francisco and walked around the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market that my coworker told me about. 

 

There were a ton of vendors and tons of people shopping.   We bought nectarines, plums, strawberries, snap peas and a HUGE onion. 

 

The onions were larger than a softball, so I had to have one. :)  My coworker also told me we could bring food into the game, so we had some healthy snacks to munch on instead of only eating ballpark food all day. 

My company gave us $12 preloaded on our tickets for food and/or souvenirs.  $12 at AT&T Park gets you a piece of gum and that’s about it.  A bottle of water is $5.  Ice cream (2 scoops of vanilla with chocolate syrup) $10.  Large soda $7.50.  Sandwich $9.75.  Baseball caps $20-$60 (which we expected).  Giants sweatshirt (women’s style and VERY lightweight) $90!!!!!  Or the cheaper sweatshirt for ONLY $85!!  Ridiculous.  We had seats that were in full sun all day and I ended up with a really bad sunburn.  Check out this sexy picture:

Sunscreen usually gives me a rash and the stuff that doesn’t bother my skin was at home in the medicine cabinet.  Helpful huh?!

Our seats were pretty far away, so it was hard to get into the feel of the game. 

We ended up leaving in the 8th inning so we could catch the ferry.  The game lasted into the 11th inning.  The Giants won 2 – 1. 

 Naughty, naughty chalk outline around home plate:

The only other MLB game I’ve been to was a Twins game in Minnesota – they won the World Series that year.  Maybe the Giants will win again this year! 

The company outing cost us $48 for the ferry, $55 for baseball hats, $10 ice cream, and $23 for farmer’s market goodies.  We had a really nice day together.  I’m glad we took the ferry and didn’t have to fight traffic in and out of the city. 

Walking back to the ferry:

Does this bring any movie quotes into your mind??  We thought, "Save the clock tower!! Save the clock tower!!"  from Back to the Future:

Dan and Lisa said Ruger was well behaved for them…whew!!  I was nervous he was going to drive them crazy since he was in a new place.  He had the runs all over their concrete; we think he was stressed out that we left him.  It took Doug and Dan a while to clean it up.  Sorry guys!!  I’m glad he did it outside and not inside like at my parent’s house! 

Dog Bed

I refuse to buy Ruger another dog bed, so I keep ironing patches on the bed to cover the holes he digs or chews into the bed to pull the stuffing out.  It got to the point that I couldn't patch the holes anymore:

Pretty ghetto huh??

I looked into a dog bed cover...kinda like a big pillow case....but those are almost as much as a new bed.  NO WAY am I going to pay $40-$50 for a cover.  Here is my solution:

I sewed a dish towel into the bottom of the bed.  My sewing job is horrible, but I was already tired of doing it after about 6 inches.  It turned out pretty good.  Ruger dug at the towel for a few minutes, but I think he missed having his bed, so he's left it alone since then.

A couple things I didn't post:
I don't think I posted the bones that Nylabone sent us:

Ruger hasn't been able to get through these bones!  The plastic gets a little sharp as he chews on it, but they look the same after a couple weeks of chewing.
Here is the picture from the first time we went to the dog park.  Ruger and another dog named Ruger:

Gun Class

Doug, Kevin and I took a gun class last Saturday.  The shooting range was way up in the hills, so I thought it would be a cool temperature day.  Not even close.  There wasn’t any wind where we were and the temperature was warmer up there than at home.  Weird!  We tried to hide in the shade off and on, but it was still hot and we were out there for almost 8 hours.  We were surrounded by pretty scenery though…

I peed up in those trees by the way! HAHAH 

We had sunburns when we left, but it was a good day!  There was a lot of classroom type material.  We learned how to handle common gun jams, how to comfortably hold someone at gunpoint, turn quickly and aim, etc.  We were given a very interesting handout about heart rate and how it affects our body and the way we think and process traumatic moments (I'll share it later since I don't have it with me).  One example we were given was about the movie theatre shooting in Colorado, people reported only hearing pops.  If you have ever heard a gunshot indoors, it is FAR from just a popping noise. 

The instructor asked how long it would take the cops to get to our home if we needed help, most of us said 2-3 minutes, until someone said 7 minutes, so we were told to hold our guns up and aimed for 7 minutes.  All our arms were burning after just 1-2 minutes!  Luckily we didn’t have to do that for the full 7 minutes!  He showed us a more relaxed way to do it.  The word relaxed doesn't sound right when I'm talking about holding someone at gunpoint, but I think you know what I mean :)

We were kind of bummed that we only shot 7 bullets during the entire 8 hours.  I was so excited that I shot better than Doug and Kevin (I haven’t fired a gun in about 7 years), but after looking at the pictures, I think it was a tie.  We all were very close to the dot we were aiming at.  The instructor circled an extra blemish on the cardboard that wasn’t one of Doug’s shots, so we changed it and took new pictures.

Mine:

 Doug:

 Kevin:

 Doug:

 Mine:

Dog Park

Ruger has been socializing a lot lately!  It's really good for him since he tries to be the alpha all the time.  Here are some pictures of him playing - he's a water hog:

 We took him to the creek:

 Turkey and her babies:

Ruger in "real" water for the first time!!  It was so much fun because he couldn't get enough of the water.  We had him on a 26 foot leash and he wanted to run and run and run...and jump and hop and bounce all over.  He would try to bite the water too:

He even swam for the first time.  He didn't care if the water was cold or deep; he ran in without a care in the world!  As my step dad said, "He probably would have followed that creek to the ocean if you didn't have him leashed!"

He's being a water hog again:



 Playing in the water again:

He's such a goofy character.

Another example of his goofiness:

He stands up to see out the windows upstairs now.  I think he loves how far he can see.  He will stand there for minutes at a time and I'll hear small woofs while he's checking out the world.