Missy's Home!

I picked up Missy yesterday. She's doing great! She has a 6" incision from the top to the bottom of her poor little knee (okay, not so little). I'll take pictures tomorrow. It's been raining, so I haven't taken the camera out and pictures inside would be really dark.

I didn't realize how much more of an attention hound she is over Mr. Man. It's weird to have her underfoot, following me around the house, putting her head on my laptop while I type... Mr. Man just lays around. Polar opposites!

She's cracking me up too. She has one of those big collars and runs into EVERYTHING! I take it off when I can watch her, but put it on when I leave the house. I put it on her last night when I went to sleep. All night long I could hear her running into the curtains next to the bed. Then she's scare herself, forcing the curtains to move the other way, never realizing that she was the one moving them. Crazy mutt!

Missy Update

I dropped Missy off for surgery yesterday. For those of you who I haven't talked to, Missy injured her knee the last week of January and I've been carrying her up and down the steps ever since, and she's been on cage rest when I'm not home. It's amazing - this same thing happened on her other leg in Alaska and she had surgery in a week. In the middle of Tokyo, it takes 9 weeks. Does that make sense to anyone else? The base vets haven't exactly been helpful. Our vet's x-ray machine has been broken for over a year, so I've been having to drive 1.5 hrs to the Army Vet. That vet had the x-ray machine, but couldn't do the surgery, so he was supposed to set up an appt off-base. He forgot about Missy and made the appt 7 weeks after I started making the trek back and forth.

SO, yesterday I dropped her off for surgery. They called at 8:15pm last night to tell me that she made it out of surgery and is doing great. I have to leave her there for a week for recovery - a long time, but it's best for her. This way she isn't trying to rough house with Mr. Man!

This was Missy when I dropped her off. She looks thrilled, doesn't she :P

Cherry Blossoms & Tulips

My friend Jess and I took her daughter out to Showa Park this past weekend. All of the cherry blossoms are out, and they were having a tulip festival. Check out these fantastic flowers!

There were flowers EVERYWHERE!

She wasn't a big fan of sitting near the flowers, but still had a good time!

We don't know if these two were actually getting married, or if they were models, but it was still really pretty!

This is one of my favorite pictures :)

Here are all of the Cherry Blossoms. I love that in Japan people go on picnics. You never see that in the states anymore. Some place in the park were so full that you'd be lucky to be able to put a blanket down.