Marymoor Park

On Saturday we signed the lease! Yay!  We drove to a part of Seattle called Northgate, and they have an awesome looking mall that we will have to explore one day.  But we had to hurry back to the house because Cody was doing his first maintenance "thingy" for Microsoft.  He could work from home, so while Cody worked, I got hooked on Grey's Anatomy.  I just finished season one, and I LOVE it!  Cody learned a lot while doing the maintenance thing, and actually had fun while working.  Saturday night was so windy and rainy, that we didn't really want to go out in that horrible weather, so we took it easy and relaxed at our apartment.  

Vega is all ready to go out in the rain with my rain boots.

Then, on Sunday, we decided to go and try out a park in Redmond that we have heard good things about called Marymoor Park.  It is a HUGE park with everything you could ever want.  It has trails and hiking for both walking and bikes, plus soccer fields and an off-leash dog area.  Vega was so happy and excited when we got there, and she didn't even know what it was.  She was doing her excited whiny thing she does in the car and when we finally let her off the leash, she ran and barked her happy excited bark at us.  It was pretty funny.  

Here is Cody trying to help Vega find a stick.

Cody had to break the stick we found in half because it was too big, and if you know Vega, she does not like it when you break her sticks, so she was barking and yelling at Cody while he was breaking it in half. 

The off-leash part wasn't super huge for the people to walk around and go hike or anything, but it was plenty big for the dogs, plus there were lots of places for the doggies to go swimming, which Vega loves to do.

Vega with her stick swimming back to us.

Vega was so happy to be out of the city for a minute.

I was a little slow with the camera, but usually whenever Cody was trying to throw the stick for Vega, he would get surrounded by other dogs wanting to get the stick too.  

Apparently in Washington, sticks get so water-logged that they sink.  We didn't realize that they were sinking right away, and poor Vega would swim back and forth trying to find the stick.  She went all away across the river before we had to call her back.  She was so determined to find her stick. After we would call her back over to us, she would look at us and then jump back in the water to try and find it again.  That's when we decided it might be time to leave, just so that she would give up and rest. Silly Vega.

So, that was our weekend.  We will try and get more pictures of some things other than Vega.  ;)