The New Addition

This weekend is the big weekend in which we picked up the puppy. Our road trip across Pennsylvania began with a stop for lunch at Primo's Hoagies (delicious) after a half day of work on Friday. Then we headed out across the state. Our first stop was at our alma mater, Grove City College.

We then proceeded on to dinner with some friends from college. I'm pretty sure we would have shut down Rachel's without even noticing the time, if not for some of our more responsible fellow Grovers.

After a short night's sleep, we headed off to pick up our puppy. You know you're in Ohio/Western PA when you see:

But we made it to Barb's (the breeder's) just fine and got to meet our beautiful little girl. After some tearful goodbyes, we headed for home. Riley slept on our laps the entire way home, looking something like this:


We have no idea how she finds that comfortable but whatever works...Once we got home, she was just as mischievous. She loves all her new toys and thinks her toy box is also a bed.


And she's just darn cute, don't you think?

As you can see, she's about the size of Duff's foot.

And now it is 11 o'clock at night and we have discovered that Riley is an interior decorator. Unlike most puppies that cry for hours on their first night in their crate, Riley only cried for about 5 minutes. And now, she is loudly and meticulously rearranging the pad on the bottom of her crate every 10 seconds. I guess its not quite feng shui yet. Hopefully, at some point soon she'll get it just right and we can all go to sleep. Good night, everyone!