Draco!

The other day I caught Draco standing AND eating!
Its seems like a small thing, but for Draco this is big (almost as big as he is)! He has always been such a picky eater. Ever since we got him he has only laid down while eating. To this day he will not eat without me (Heather) close by. Even if Tim gives Draco a treat during the day, he wont even eat it until I am home.

Anyway, enjoy the cute pictures of Draco!

Tennessee State Fair

Two weekends ago we went to the Tennessee State Fair! Our main motivation was going to the demo derby Friday night. We ended up waiting in line on the road just to get into the parking lot. I would guess the line involved about 120-150 cars! There was only ONE parking lot and ONE entrance to the fair! Talk about poor planning!!

Eventually we got in, found the grandstands, paid for our tickets to the demo, went to find seats and this is what we saw:


A race track. We weren't sure how there was going to be a demo derby, there was no place for the cars to smash into each other. The only thing we could guess is that demo derbies in the South are maybe more about the racing than the smashing. We were pretty bummed about the non-smashing of the cars.

But were were even more confused when we saw the cars:



Yeah, there was only ONE demo-derby-looking car to been seen. Turns out the rest of the cars did not show up! How does this happen? We don't know! They had to cancel the demo derby because there were no cars! I think we both of our jaws touched the ground when they told us the demo was canceled. Their excuse involved some type of communication error, but they weren't really sure. We got our money back and decided that we probably won't return next year. All in all it was a very confusing and weird experience.

We had a better time when we met up with some of Tim's school friends. We all had lots of fun eating delicious fair food and enjoying other fair things. We found the livestock barns and went in to check things out. Right then it started to downpour. We didn't have umbrellas so we found a seat and watched people show their cows in competitions. Suffice is to say we ended up spending 30 minutes more then anyone would ever want to in close proximity to cows and goats.





All in all we had a great time at the fair and lots of laughs!

New Car

Last weekend we bought a car! It is a 1998 Toyota Corolla. It's in pretty good shape but it is the "value" model. Translation...no features. Thankfully the only feature it has is A/C, a definite must in the South. Even though it doesn't have all the bells and whistles, it runs well, should last us as long as we stay here, and might even be worth a couple dollars when we are ready to sell it. It is so nice to have two cars again. We were starting to stress a little bit about Heather having to wait 30 minutes after work on the side of a very busy road for a bus that would take over an hour to get her home. Thankfully we can rest easy knowing that we both have reliable transportation again!




Check out our new wheels!


Today we took Draco to a dog park near our apartment. He had lots of fun being off leash and being able to run around a bit. There were some really nice dogs there and even another corgi. We felt pretty bad for Draco when he started getting humped by a soaking wet bulldog , so we made sure to give him a treat when we got home! Sorry Draco!

Today we also went to K&S World Market, an ethnic grocery store. It was so fun to see all the different and yummy looking food. We scored some yakisoba noodles, pot stickers and curry sauce. We also checked out the Costco and finally bought some Tillamook cheese! They don't carry it in the regular grocery stores here.



This weekend we also plan to venture to a Jazz Festival and spend some time by the pool...oh yeah and not go to work or school on Monday! We miss you all and hope you have a fantastic holiday weekend!