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We took a bit of a break from blogging for a few weeks for the fantastic reason that we went on vacation/staycation! This week we'll try to post an entry a day outlining what we've been up to and the highlights; Jenny will even be popping by this week to give her personal account of the best and worst scuba training class ever.
Our first outing during our summer vacation was actually to a local park, which on the face of it sounds pretty lame. Actually though, this park is one of a series of parks that were recently designed in Northern Kaohsiung and together create a super park that can be seen here from googlemaps， although unfortunately the image is pre-gardening:
The first part of this park, on the right with the grid, is home to seasonal flower exhibitions that the parks service plant and maintain every season. More recently, these flower exhibitions have turned into large scale flower gardens, sculpted to create large mazes that are tons of fun to walk through. And, although this land used to be a large open space (as you can see on the above image) where local dogs and their people came to play, these new flower mazes provide a new kind of stimulation for dogs to enjoy (Souffie certainly had a good time!).
The second, middle, section of the park is called Forest Park and has developed quite a bit since the Google satellite image was taken; it now has a very large water feature with a number of bridges and walkways around it, a skate park where local kids rollerskate/rollerblade, and our favorite place, the section just across from the small visitor's center: a patch of rolling green grass minihills that often hosts a very large dog get together. Sometimes, during the earlier part of the evening, the ground looks like it's moving from all of the small dogs (mostly hotdogs) running around! Later on, the larger dogs usually join in, including our Formosan and Beagle, and romp around playing and stealing toys from one another.
Unfortunately, this time we showed up a little late and most of the dogs were already on their way home, but we brought the light-up collars so we let them play until the mosquitoes got so bad we had no choice but to move on! Still, all in all, it was a fun outing and the puppies had a lot of run romping in the flowers and then with the last of the pup-meet-upers. We can't wait to do it again!
We took a bit of a break from blogging for a few weeks for the fantastic reason that we went on vacation/staycation! This week we'll try to post an entry a day outlining what we've been up to and the highlights; Jenny will even be popping by this week to give her personal account of the best and worst scuba training class ever.
Our first outing during our summer vacation was actually to a local park, which on the face of it sounds pretty lame. Actually though, this park is one of a series of parks that were recently designed in Northern Kaohsiung and together create a super park that can be seen here from googlemaps， although unfortunately the image is pre-gardening:
The first part of this park, on the right with the grid, is home to seasonal flower exhibitions that the parks service plant and maintain every season. More recently, these flower exhibitions have turned into large scale flower gardens, sculpted to create large mazes that are tons of fun to walk through. And, although this land used to be a large open space (as you can see on the above image) where local dogs and their people came to play, these new flower mazes provide a new kind of stimulation for dogs to enjoy (Souffie certainly had a good time!).
The second, middle, section of the park is called Forest Park and has developed quite a bit since the Google satellite image was taken; it now has a very large water feature with a number of bridges and walkways around it, a skate park where local kids rollerskate/rollerblade, and our favorite place, the section just across from the small visitor's center: a patch of rolling green grass minihills that often hosts a very large dog get together. Sometimes, during the earlier part of the evening, the ground looks like it's moving from all of the small dogs (mostly hotdogs) running around! Later on, the larger dogs usually join in, including our Formosan and Beagle, and romp around playing and stealing toys from one another.
Unfortunately, this time we showed up a little late and most of the dogs were already on their way home, but we brought the light-up collars so we let them play until the mosquitoes got so bad we had no choice but to move on! Still, all in all, it was a fun outing and the puppies had a lot of run romping in the flowers and then with the last of the pup-meet-upers. We can't wait to do it again!
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