aliens, fat dogs and Gilmore Girls

What a great, and full, Saturday.

Got up with Myra and took her to the school up the street to wear her out since we were going downtown to participate in the American Heart Association Heart Walk (OHSU was a sponsor and we were "encouraged" to come out and walk).

Michele and David came over so we could drive over in one car, and it was the first time I've ever seen Myra afraid of someone, she wouldn't go near David at all. Didn't know if it was because he was the tallest person she's met, or because he was wearing a hat and she doesn't see people with hats very frequently, but she would just hide behind Tim when David would try to pet her. Very cute actually, she's so brave lol

Did the heart walk, or rather heart stroll. Took us an hour to do 2.5 miles, when it shouldn't have taken anymore than 45 mins. But it was a nice day to walk along the river.

Michele was walking Kathleen's black lab Elvis, and I felt so bad for Elvis. He is very fat, very out of shape, he's only 5 and looks like he is about 12 or 13. Dogs should never get like that, he clearly has almost no daily exercise, it made me kind of sad.

Came home, had some cereal and headed down to the UFO festival in McMinnville (apparently McMinnville is the site of a famous UFO sighting). Festival seems a bit of a stretch. There was one small tent and then some discussions in the hotel next door. I had wanted to go to see the alien pet parade, but there weren't many animals dressed up, and the ones that were just had capes on. Cute but disappointing.

It was interesting, there were a lot of regular people, probably townspeople, just there for the food and wearing alien headbands. Then there were some alien nuts, and of course the religious nuts, wearing shirts like "Washed in the blood of Jesus Christ." The religious nuts would stand on one side of the street and yell at the alien folks on the other side of the street. I felt like telling the religious nuts that what they believe is just as much fiction and fantasy as some of the alien stuff. But I didn't feel like getting beat up lol

Tim had fun, and got to talk to people who are interested without being wingnuts about it. I wandered down to the bookstore for a bit, but I think Powells has now ruined me for lesser book stores, there was such a bad selection. But I got the Mermaid Chair, which I am very excited to read.

Came home after a long day, fed the puppy and watched an entire disk of Gilmore girls. That show is fun and really well written.

All in all, a very fun Saturday (even if we did eat like crap all day).