Hollingday in the White Stuffs - SNOW - Pawt 6 (Final)

Hiya all,

This 6 Pawt Hollingday saga was a marathon of its own ... don't ya think? Anyway - we have hit the home stretch and please enjoy the last Pawt...

FURST - I have to report "Operation Meet The Bright Peeps" was VERY VERY successful. I have NEW GRANDPAWRENTS!!! Grandmaw I and Grandpaw N sure did LOVE ME!! Grandmaw even went special shopping for me and bought me YUMMERS treats and FED ME NON-STOP.   I LOVES HER!!!!!!! I was on my bestest behaviour too. Grandmaw even snuck me her foodables at the dinner table ... when mum wasn't looking! We had such a GREAT TIME togethers. I'll show you how I trained Grandmaw later on in this post.

It may seem a little strange - but we went on a little excursion with my new Grandpawrents and ended up in the Bright Cemetery !! I've never been to a peep cemetery before but you can see my happy fur butt heading up the hill in front. That's my new Grandmaw on the left and dad dad in the middle, and my new Grandpaw on the right.

This place was like a big pawk!

See this wall?? My Grandpawrents are gonna be "planted" in a wall like this one when they go over the Bridge. It was all very confusing ... they are not planning to get planted anytime soon - they just booked the accommodation so they would end up together and where they wanted to be. Such a pretty place - surrounded by mountains and stuffs.

This is the old part - with lots of interesting stones to read, but I loved running around on the grass.

On the way home - I met a couple more locals.

These locals were friendly and waved at us each time we passed!

Another big day in Bright!!

My peeps and I saw the Grandpawrents every night for "Happy Hour" drinks and dinner. We alternated which house we ate at. Mum called it a "dinner party and red wine marathon". We ALL had a wonderful time. 

This is me and Grandmaw the morning we left. This is at their place. Check out the trick I taught her:

This trick is called "Feed the Hungry Schnauzer TREATS". She had the best JERKY for me..... hhhmmmmm! 

So we booked them for next year too! I proved to my peeps that I can travel the distance. This was the biggest car ride I have done and I'm not a great traveller!!

See ya in 12 months Grandmaw and Grandpaw!!!

Back in the car:

The scenery looked like this:

We pulled over so I could have a close look at these big things in a paddock. Mum says they are Black Bulls. They had a distinctive odour.

They were VERY interested in me ... mum picked me up when they started crowding closer ... and we left and said goodbye when I started shaking a bit!! See Ya BULLS!

We did a few stops to stretch our legs ... this was a cute town called Echuca. It is on the River Murray which is a huge river in Australia.

Lots of houseboats docked along the banks.

But mum didn't want me to go onboard without an invitation.

Funny trees here - never seen bark like this before!!??

We even got to stay in the same room at the Pet-Friendly motel at Swan Hill on the return journey. Won't be long till we get home now!!

So this Hollingday WAS A BLAST my furiends.... big drives, doggie motel, SNOW, chalets, underfloor heating, new Grandpawrents, lots of treats and walks ..... all GOOD!!

AND - I get to go back next year!! Mum says we might even drive up to see the snow again - if there is some - at the time we are in Bright! Wooooo Hooooo!!

Thanks for reading!!

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PeeeeSss: Make sure your peeps are "on the ball" and have your "International Taco Day" tacos planned and ready to roll - not long now!!!!!

This fun day on October 4th is hosted by Angel Jazzi and her bloggie - and it means that we can eat TACOS in her honour! 

Hollingday in the White Stuffs - SNOW - Pawt 5

Hiya all. 

I now resume normal programming - and provide you with the next Pawt of my Hollingday story.

After we drove down the big Mountain back to "non-snow" territory ... we hit BRIGHT a little town that is quaint, small, picturesque ... and where we are booked in for FIVE nights. Mum and dad dad have been here lots of times ... they LOVE it here - and this is where one of dad dad's old bosses (and his wife) retired to almost 20 years ago after leaving Adelaide. I get to meet them for the FURST TIME - so mum hopes I will be on my best behaviour so as to not disgrace myself. (**AS IF MUM!!!**)

We arrived back in Bright a little early and killed some time with a walk down by the Ovens River.

And there goes mum takin' photos of stuffs that isn't ME!! Again!

This is the little unit we rented in Bright. It is a two bedroom unit, complete with enclosed back yard. And I AM WELCOME here. A little bonus was that this unit is a 8 minute walk away from the peeps my peeps came to see.

Want a tour of our DIGS??? OK - If you insist!!

Let me begin by saying my bum bum is nice and warm due to the underfloor heating. My peeps have never stayed anywhere with underfloor heating until this trip. We had it in our Chalet and now we get it again here.  

Here is the kitchen - all impawtant for creating FOODABLES. Mum was happy - she had a big fridge, big oven, and dishwasher!

Breakfast bar and dining area.

My dining area ... bol!!

Lounge room complete with couch and two recliners.

Through to the Sunroom ... 

There's a couch and comfy chair in here - with sliding door access to the deck, BBQ and .....

Enclosed backyard with a creek running behind. The fence stopped me from trying the water there.

If you look closely at the base of our tree you will see a green stand with a plate on top. That's where mum fed the birds after she burned the toast. (She scraped the black stuffs off for them)

They were very pleased with their breakfasts. They got toast from us and ate the ripe lemons on our tree!

Back inside - they put my blue bed here for day time sleeps.

Nightime we all slept in here.

View from the middle of the hallway - to the left is the doorway into the 2nd bedroom with twin beds (both with a teddy on the bed) (I looked but didn't touch!)

Tour over - lets go for a walk up the street.

It got rural fairly quick - and I loved looking at the horse.

We are off to see the Platypus ponds.

Nice ponds - but as usual my peeps didn't see any platypus!

The walk was very pretty anyway.

Mum - I'm over HERE ....... don't disturb the napping duckies!

Yep - back to ME!!

Round the ponds we go.

Almost back to the unit - we have a nice pawk practically next door - and the red church in the background is directly behind our unit on the other side of the creek. I got to do a lot of running back and forth in this pawk.

Mum picked these flowers on our walk for the sunroom.

And dad dad and me tried out the couch in the sunroom. We were tired after our big walk.

Tonight we go and see the peeps my peeps know for drinks and dinner. Mum calls it a food MARATHON. Hope there are stuffs for me there!!

I'll let you know if they LIKE me in the next PAWT. That will be the LAST Pawt of this hollingday adventure!

Hollingday in the White Stuffs - SNOW - Pawt 4

OOOoooo the fun continues .... but be warned ... this will be my last post in the SNOWS ... maybe for FUREVER .... so drink it all in my furiends!!

This is me enjoying an "alpine breakfast" ...

And this is the peeps' "alpine breakfast". Lucky I got to do QA on their breakfasts .... coz my kibble looked a little PATHETIC in comparison!!

Mum says the breakfast sausages were "low-fat" ... so that means she can feel better about herself and how big her "rear end air bags" are gettin'.

Thankyou for askin' after my clumsy pawrents over their spills and thrills. Dad's injuries were much more dramatic that mum's - he HAD a big LUMP on his NOGGIN ... but they healed good. Mum says it's mainly their fault because she didn't insist upon really good snow footwear - thinking we would only be in the snows for such a short time ... but she NOW KNOWS it is vitally imPAWtant for peeps to fork out for appropriate footwear in icy conditions. 

This is another sight I saw out my chalet window ... the neighbour lying with his PEEP early in the morning. As you can SEE - I was NOT the ONLY nosey parker !!!

On one of my walks .... I came across HARRY and his nice MUM. Harry is a seasoned snow professional ... hence no boots and no coat. His mum and dad bought a chalet up here in the village many years ago - when it was brand new - and they holiday up here a lot. They were very impressed with me keeping on my boots!!

In fact - in a few short days I was FAMOUS in this TOWN. Everyone knew about the "dawg with the pink boots". There were peeps stopping their cars and taking a closer look at my boot encrusted paws ... the CELEBRITY was makin' my HEAD SWELL a little!! BOL!

Lots of peeps kept sayin' that their dawgs rip em' off FAST ... but sometimes I KNOW when to be GOOD. I knew my furiends ... that unless I kept my boots on ... I would not be able to hollingday in the snows. That's the sort of peep my mum is. Just sayin'.

Here I am in -7 celcius (19.4F) and in the big cold winds. This walk before dinner was FRESH. Mum's hands were frozen solid she says, she didn't wear her gloves so she could use her camera instead. This is what I got to deal with furiends!!

More shots around our village.

Look away FRANKIE - there is an abstract thingy in the background that COULD be a snowfreak!

This village of Dinner Plain is where peeps can go to learn how to ski because there is a little snow hill and a mini ski lift:

There were peeps bringing their little peeps here to learn tricky stuffs with long things strapped/locked on their feets.

Back in our chalet - Mum wanted to show you how she dried our boots/shoes in between going outside. It was warm under those tiles my furiends .... nice to stand on with bare paws.

And I wanted to show you how I relaxed in between gettin' those boots strapped on me - in my blue bed with a buffalo ear!! Yea!! 

This is the morning we left - just doin' our last walk round.

Mum and me both in RED with a last minute photo opportunity.

And this is just before we got in the car to leave. I met two RACING MALAMUTES ... they are competing in the Sled Dog races here too. Their nice peep told us that malamutes are bigger and heavier than huskies ... so they race against other malamutes only because they are slower (than huskies) in general. But from what I saw - these doggies really love what they do - all the peeps were sayin' that the dawgs get all fired up the closer they get to the race - they are so happy and excited!

We didn't get to see the actual racing though. We were hoping to see some practice runs ... but our timing was not great!

Before she forgets - mum wants to share with you her FAVOURITE photo of our trip. The photo is absolutely highlighted and saved by ME ... - don't ya reckon??? (**schnauzer winks**)

So back in the car we go (chains not required today) and we start our journey back to the top of Mount Hotham ...

Conditions very much PEA-SOUP up the top - not nice and sunny like where we were!! What a difference 10kms UP means!

At Hotham village, the peeps are still riding the chair lifts goin' to the tops to ski down!! Mum and dad dad were HAPPY they were in the CAR!!

The fogs were so thick ... we could not see the mountain view on the right hand side!! 

Down we go now ... off the mountains.

**SEE  YA  LATER  SNOWS !!!!**

Almost at our next stop for 5 nights:

Beautiful BRIGHT!!

Here is a MAP for you furiends. It shows the route we took to get to Dinner Plain. (I agree it's a great NAME!) It was approximately 1000km (one way) to drive. That's about 621 miles. 

Hope you JOIN me for PAWT 5 !!!