lily arrives in aloha

our sweet lab lily is finally home with us and ready to settle in as an island dog. hawaii has super strict laws on bringing anaimals to the islands. aparently hawaii is one of the only places left in the world that dose not have rabies...so they are doing everything they can to keep it that way. all animals must go through a 120 day waiting period, and since we had way less notice than that, she wasn't able to make the move with us. we opted out of quarenteening her in honolulu for 3 months, and left her with wes' parents to wait out her time. she was living the good life in truckee, california for 3 months. on friday we drove over to the much hotter kona side of the isalnd to pick up lily and her travel companions. it was a very good reunion. we sure love our lily girl! oh, and yes i insisted that she get her very own lei.




waiting...waiting...where is that lily girl? coen kept saying to me, "she's gonna lick me! she's gonna get my toesies!" he really missed her (and i missed her cleaning up after him).


she's here! a little bit confused and a lotta bit hot. pop pop and gami decorated her crate to make sure she would be treated well on the flight. can you imagine how it felt to be a black dog and leave the snow in truckee and show up in HOT kona?! poor girl. we gave her LOTS of water and then took her to the kona brewing company for lunch.


everyone cooled off with a cold one from the kona brewing company (coen had oragne juice) and they even brought lily out a pitcher of ice water. she layed out by the front of the restaurant and got lots of love from people going in and out. gami brought coen a vew finder toy with thomas the train slides. it was histerical! when he looked in and saw thomas he pointed out in front of himself and started yelling, "thomas! i see see thomas, he's right there!" then he would pull it away, look around and then do it all again. it never got old.

we are so happy to have our lily girl back with us. we sure missed her. gami and pop pop did such a great job taking care of her and getting her back to us in perfect shape (10 pounds lighter)! we are excited to have a whole week to spend with them exploring the island. much more on that to come! woof! woof!