We've had a crazy busy weekend!! I'll leave the rest of the gory details until later and get straight to the title of my post, as I'm sure I've got you wondering what in the world I'm talking about:) Today we finished off our busy weekend by attending the
Wiener Dog Nationals at the Woodlands Race Track in KC. Seriously. The funniest part is the wiener dog races are all Ed has talked about for the past 2 weeks. When we moved here 2 years ago, the wiener dog race was the weekend right after we moved and we were buried in moving boxes, so we didn't make it to the race. Ed was very intrigued by the article in the paper and swore we were going to make it in 2006. Last year the race rolled around again and we had plans, so once again we were left out of the wiener dog mania. About a month ago, Ed came in and said "the wiener dog race is July 29
th - put it on the calendar - we're going". I very rarely see my husband excited about anything, let alone a race with a bunch of little yippee dogs. So, today we went. It was very amusing on many levels. I won't go into all of them, but I can tell you that Abby LOVED it. She stood on her bench waving her little fan yelling "yeah dog races!!". I'm a little scared we might have created a little dog track addict today;) It was an interesting race - they ran the wiener dogs in between the greyhound races. Here's an
article that explains it better than I can, but take it from me, it was very funny to watch to owners and the dogs running 100
yds down the racetrack at a top speed of 4 mph. Ed and the kids were so excited they all bought
wieners gone wild T-shirts (in all honestly I would have bought one also, but they were sold out of medium T-shirts). My husband has declared the Wiener Dog Nationals a new "Harper Family Tradition". I'm not quite sure what to think about that!
I know nothing can top the Wieners Gone Wild, but the rest of our weekend was busy but fun. Friday night we went shopping and purchased all of Ethan's school supplies (have I mentioned there's only 18 days 'til school starts). Saturday we went to the Liberty Farmer's Market and bought corn on the cob, tomatoes, zucchini and watermelon. Ethan informed me that he's going to sell the watermelons he grows at the Farmer's Market next year. I told him I didn't think the 4 plants he had would produce enough watermelons to sell, but imagine his excitement (and my dismay) when we cut into our supposedly seedless watermelon to find it FULL of black seeds. He was so excited he wanted to harvest and plant them all to work on his watermelon crop. I think we've created a monster!!
Saturday evening my friend Lucy watched the kids while Ed and I went to the
Jumpin' Catfish for dinner with my Mom and Step-Dad. My little brother was there entertaining diners with his guitar playing, so we had a nice dinner with some relaxing music.
Now I'm exhausted and ready for bed. Hopefully my dreams won't be filled with little wiener dogs:)
3 comments:
I think I will need to schedule that in for next year myself.
Love,
Mom
That is the coolest! I'm going to have to talk Alex into a trip to KC next July :)
Well, I have to admit it, but I knew exactly what you were talking about when I read your title. I think it was 5 years ago, and I actually attended the race with some friends of mine. I never admitted it anyone, but it was really funny to watch! Maybe Ethan and Abby should get a weiner dog themselves, and start training.....I think we could get a whole crowd to go watch the races next year if Ed would run with the dogs.
Love, Marci
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