mama says she’s on vacation this week and through the rest of the year.  but i think she’s confused.  vacations are when we go to carmel, or socal, or hawaii.  but all week, mama and i have just been hanging out around town.  we’ve been doing lots of fun things though.  we went to christmas in the park, had playdates with my buddies, got a visit from 8-week old foster puppies, hung out with my some of my favorite out-of-town aunties, and we even had an early christmas dinner (more on that later).

christmas in the park was so much fun.  i wanted to go last year, but by the time the weather was nice enough for us to go, they were taking down the displays   so this year, we decided to go even though it was raining.  lucky for us, the rain stopped just as we pulled into the parking garage.  hooray!  i guess my no-rain dance worked   i had a blast looking at all of the colorful lights and decorations, and of course, i had to wave at all of the characters and animals (and people) that we passed by.  the carribean christmas was my favorite display — it had frogs playing reggae music.  how silly, huh?  i didn’t like the scary-looking fake people, though.  whenever they were pointed out to me, i just shook my head to say “no, i don’t like them!”  when we go next year, i hope we can go ice skating.

i don’t need elaborate displays and fancy lights to have fun though.  earlier in the week, kai invited us over to his new house for a boys’ day in.  4 crazy boys in his house.  he sure is brave!  kai has so many toys in his play room, and he even has a slide inside his house!  (darn it!  that‘s what i should have asked santa to bring me!)

and today, i met matthew at vasona park to ride the steam train and carousel, but neither of them were running today!  BOO!!!  but we made the most of the day and ran around the park.  then we went out to lunch and played outside of the restaurant.  we found rocks to play with, weaved around the pillars, and we made new friends with other boys and high fived them through the restaurant’s glass wall.  see, i really can have fun anywhere.  but why does mama only take me on playdates with BOYS?!

next week, some of my playdates better be with girls.  otherwise, i’m gonna fire mama as my social planner.