Our humans had a couple of weeks off over the Christmas and New Year period, believe us they both needed that break!

During this time we got to go on lots of diffferent walks and meet up with lots of different friends.  Our humans and us love making new friends and catching up with old ones! :)

Today we caught up with some old friends, we hadn’t seen them since July 2011.  Which is a long time, especially in the dog world.  We met up with our friends Cinnamon and Mint, some of you guys will know them from their blog, Beagle Diary.

Waiting nicely in the gardens!

We went to a place that we have been to a few other times with another one of our friends.  It’s called Auckland Botanical Gardens and it is beautiful there; it has lots pretty paths to walk around, with all different kinds of flowers to look at – Nope not to sniff or pee on :(   Our humans don’t let us sniff and pee when ever we want while we are on the lead.  They like to use sniffing as a reward when we have been behaving well.  They like to use all different types of rewards.  Not just the standard treatie or pat on the head!

We met Cinnamon, Mint and their human outside the front building, where there is an information center and a cafe.  What we also like about the gardens is that it has on and off-leash area’s.  You have to walk through the beautiful gardens on-leash to get to the off-leash section.  Laura thinks this is great because we have to be calm and settled while walking on the leash through the gardens, then we get rewarded at the end of it with a big run off the leash.  Having to walk on-leash also makes us use our brain a bit more, by making us be aware of where we are walking and making sure we are respectful with good manners.

When we finally got to the park we did a lot of this at first…

Sniffing!

Then Cinammon and Mint’s human pulled out a toy, and then it was game on.  Though Mint was the only one that really wanted to play the game.  All Lexi wanted to do was take it off him and then not give it back…

"Please can we play with the toy"

"No! That's my toy"

We continued to walk around the whole off-leash area.  It’s a pretty large space with different paths and lots of trees.  There is also a little pond in the middle and a river type thing to the side.  Since none of us are real water dogs we didn’t hang round in the area very long.  We went over to a large space of grass off the main path, where we could run around and play…

Cinnamon wasn’t really that interested in playing with us, but Mint was.  He loved to chase us :D   Which is great, because that is one of our favouite games to play.

Lexi also found herself a boyfriend, she went all silly and submissive (which is very unusual for her) and started jumping, squiggling and play bowing all over the place…

Jasper also found himself a *Ahem* …a boyfriend.  His name was Dudley and he was a 14month old Long Hair Rottweiler…

Man love moment!

As you can probably guess we were very hot at the end of our outing.  All that running, playing and “man love” makes us giant doggies super hot.

Our humans were also quite warm, the weather is very humid at the moment.  Too much rain mixed with sunshine makes horrid humidity!! :(   They got themsleves a cool drink after giving us one of course and we all went and sat in the shade.

*Ahhh* What a great end to a great play date! :D

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