my thanksgiving 2008!

this thanksgiving was the first year i wasn't able to visit home!  i had to work, because we had so many animals boarding- there were over 50 animals!  40 something dogs and about 15 cats!  so i had to get up early and go to work and walk and feed all the animals, which took about 2 1/2 hours!

so after that, i was leaving and was going to wait for my dad to get in town, because he came up to visit me!!  i was expecting to have to wait around for a long time, but i called him and at that exact moment we passed each other on the road!

so we went to a holiday inn he made reservations at, and we got to each a thanksgiving lunch!  it was really nice- there was a really big buffet, and it was delicious- definitely not as good as granny's corn casserole or diane's cheesey potatoes, but it was still good!

after that, we went to the nearest movie theater to see what was playing-- not really much choice.... we decided to think about it and walk around outside because there were some interesting things nearby.  we walked over to the grand ole opry and found out the rockettes were going to be performing soon!  so we got tickets to that and walked over to see what this other place was since we had a few hours.

it turned out to be an ice show!  a whole walk-through of ice sculptures telling the story of the grinch stole christmas!

here we are with our giant jackets about to go in!  the people told us it was only 6 degrees in there!

the who babies are sleeping!

haha!! daddy in a giant hallway of ice!

i got to slide down an ice slide a couple of times!

we got out of the ice show just in time to go see the new james bond movie-- i really liked it! and the movie got out just in time for us to walk over to see the rockettes!  i didn't get any pictures there because cameras weren't allowed.  it was a really good show-- i love entertaining things like that!  and it was so unexpected and unplanned, but it all worked out so perfectly!

at the end of their show, they did this nativity thing, and they had camels and sheep on stage!  daddy and i kept laughing, because the camels were just standing up there chewing their cud and looking around while all these people were dressed in robes with canes and stuff! haha!!  i wonder what they were thinking.

after that, the show ended just in time for us to drive over to my work so i could walk all the dogs for a second time!  so daddy was able to come in, and i got to show him around everywhere!  i was really glad he got to see everything.

me in front of my work!

me with dee dee the dachshund in the "princess suite" that i painted!

and this is me in front of a dog eye chart in one of the exam rooms!

so that was my thanksgiving!  i was sad about not getting to go home, but i got to see my dad, and everything worked out perfectly, and i had an awesome day!

Hank

This is Hank!  He came in about a month ago because his back legs were swollen and the skin was coming off from where someone had had him chained up.  So every day for the past four weeks, I've been taking care of Hank, and he finally left on Saturday!  He did take a lot of time and attention, but I'm sad he's gone! 

And usually he had a big cone around his head, because he kept chewing at his feet- and then towards the end, we had a huge bucket on his head because he kept running into things and breaking the cones.  In this picture it looks like he's eating my hand! But I was just holding his head up...

Hannah and Chloe

Here's Hannah at the hospital!  She was so cute walking up and down the halls and smiling and talking to people!

Here's Chloe all bundled up

This is my favorite one I got of her!

And here's a little video I got of when Chloe first got home...