Alumapalooza, Airstream Rally to Mecca

We are going to Alumapalooza. Ya, that's right, MECCA for the Airstreamer. It's held every year on the grounds of the Airstream factory in Jackson Center, Ohio and when I heard that (saw, actually, I think, on the interweb) I booked us in immediately. It will be our second Airstream Rally. I can hardly wait to go and am going to have to UNpack the Airstream a little before we do. Our FIRST Airstream Rally, was this past December. At Christmas, we dragged our beloved tin can, the Heirs'Dream, full of labradors to Florida so our co-owned dog could visit his summer parents. After, we headed south to Key West and stayed in the SugarLoaf Key KOA for New Years.On the way there, our little tow vehicle's air conditioner blew just 1 mile after we saw this sign!

I wouldn't let the poor dogs out for fear of losing one to a crocodile. Johnny (the brilliant one) watched the sunset from the door of the trailer.

Once we arrived at SugarLoaf KOA, WHATTA WHATTA blast we had! I even met a cute Rocket Scientist to set up with my sister. Lucky for him I'm a Newlywed!!!!! We visited friends who were also wintering south of Canada in Fort Meyers and then we attended the CanOpener2012 which is held near Santa Rosa Beach at TopSail Hill State Park and it was AHmazing; the park AND the Rally. The beaches there are white sugar sand and I just loved that the locals call it the Redneck Rivierra.

We are going back to do it all over again this Christmas. The most valuable thing I learned was: when staying in State Parks, be sure to have Breakfast with the Ranger (organized by the CanOpener peeps and soooooo appreciated) or take the Tour with the Ranger. I learned tons that I'll never forget. (Oh yeah, it's a tie for Most Valuable thing I Learned; I also learned "Be careful what you dance around in, 'cause it could end up on YouTube as a PROMO video" 30 more sleeps til we leave for Ohio!

wher-er-er-er-errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre is Spring?

I haven't written anything because we haven't been anywhere! beCAUSE life has been getting in the way! Having said that, our life is pretty awesome (snow on the Airstream in the driveway notwithstanding) because we are Newlyweds (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) and we have three beautiful, squishy, loving, cute and funny labradors greet us every morning and hang on our every move throughout every day. (especially Rick's at about 5pm LST-LabradorStandardTime, which is almost always 4:20-4:30 and/or anytime he moves a dish on the counter that he feeds them from) We feed Raw Species Appropriate and so it is indistinguishable by them from any of our food, since they also eat....uh, food. Sorry, but it just kills me that people think dogs should eat dogfood and that it comes in a bag processed and stamped DogFood. I shall spare you a rant about that; if you're interested, my professional blog once I go full-time will be at www.CanineHealthBasics.blogspot.com. It's up; just sparse. The other AMAZING part of our lives, is my husband's family: 2 sons and a wonderful daughter-in-law and our unbelievably gifted, hilarious, intelligent, naturally athletic, cute, loving, multi-talented and multi-tasking, extremely witty, well-behaved, DREAM child, Oliver. I'm not blood-related so all of those superlatives are completely objective, although I have to say, that he has developped an inordinate command of the energy of charm, so I could be under a spell! Here is his proud and happy mug upon completion of his Easter Basket at his sculpting class! Helllllooooooo! Gifted! I told you. :-) Jojo (Nanny)