Hollingday in the White Stuffs - SNOW - Pawt 2

Hiya all - I'm so excited to show you the next Pawt of my Hollingday! I'm also very grateful to you who are enjoying the pictures and are leaving me lovely comments. You really are good furiends!!

OK - on with the SHOW! After leaving Mount Hotham we drove another 10kms and turned into "our" village of Dinner Plain. Mum had to check into our Chalet from the village office and get me registered into the "Alpine Shire" so I was allowed out the car! BOL! Big rules around here my furiends. My registration included me wearing a little long green tag on my collar at all times. You'll see it later.

All the buildings and chalets here in Dinner Plain are built in strict accordance with council requirements, including the materials used, colour, style etc. We think they did a great job.

Here is our Chalet. See the little number 4 at the door upstairs? That's our door. The staircase that runs down to the left of the number 4 is ours .... and that was a non-negotiable for me. I refused to go up or down those skeery stairs. They were peep/snow/ice friendly - but not little paw friendly - my paws would have slipped through the grate holes - so I got carried like a princess in and out.

 You step into a little tiled "drying room" first(under floor heating)  - where you can take off your boots/jackets/scarves/hats .... then you step into our lounge/dining/kitchen. 

Here I am scoping out the lounge.

Straight line kitchen and a staircase to the second bedroom upstairs.  We didn't need to use that bedroom. Plus the steps were very steep and skeery - so I was relieved I didn't have to use them!!

Leading off the entry/drying room was the Baffroom...

And the third door off the drying room was our Bedroom.

This is the view from the lounge window.

This is the view from our side balcony.

And this we see from the kitchen window. See the little mini chalet in the middle of the photo?? I was worried that the dawgs get put in there!! Especially the naughty ones!!  But - PHEW - they are actually the chalet BINS ... another good idea by the Alpine Council - they look HEAPS nicer than those big ol' plastic wheelie bins ... don't ya reckon??

Don't I look unhappy????!! I was TORN between having to look at those SKEERY stairs, wearing BOOTS and COAT and FINALLY being ALLOWED to go out into the WHITE stuffs!!! HERE WE GO!!!!

This is my first CLOSE UP sniffs of the Snows. Interesting!

After a little walk around the place we found the edge of the village and found the walking track. There were other peeps with their dawgs here!

Here I am meeting fellow snow dawgs and getting used to the feeling/sights/smells of this place.

Here's my first real run-about - getting my snow paws worked out!!

Woooo - Hooooo - when you don't get your paws sinking too deep - you can still runs on this stuff!

Here I am JUMPING for joy. This is  G-R-E-A-T  FUNS !!!!

Mum taking a scenery shot for you .... but my snow prints are dotted all over the white stuffs in the foreground!

Mum also found a ROBIN to photograph.

And took a photo of a SNOWMAN ..... (look away Frankie) but notice that half the head had melted.... he he 

And me goin' off for more explorations. See that balcony??? There was a nice family up there drinking coffee. They were SO IMPRESSED at me in my boots they almost fell off their CHAIRS.

OOooooo this is the YELLOW SNOW than my good furiend in OHIO said that I SHOULD NOT EAT!! Thanks for the tip Frankie, but it did smell more that the white stuffs!

See that yellow PATCH behind me???? I MADE that ...... he he !!

If you look closely you will see the name of this Chalet above the door. "BUCKLEYS" ... mum thought that was cool. She said "OR NONE" should be the Chalet next door ... but she was wrong.

I gotta say my furiends, I am rocking my boots and I loves sniffing this white stuffs!

A few of you have mentioned the "snow chains" issue. All cars in the alpine region during certain months MUST carry them in all cars. If the mountain road is icy - the road signs will direct where you turn off and fit chains to continue. They must be diamond pattern like these. These were on our neighbours car because they came up a couple days before us when the conditions were much worse than we had. Dad dad was very much happy that we had clear roads when we came up.

Mum LOVES this photo. See my Alpine Registration Tag??? The little green long one. Along with my special number - It's even got a little snowflake design on it!

This is me going over our driveway hill (you will hear more about this hill later) to get back home to our Chalet after my first run-about. 

Hot drinks all round - and a drink and snack for me. Counting the hours before dinner and waiting to see what happens next.

Isn't it WILD seeing a little AUSSIE DAWG like ME in the SNOWS???!! 

I am so happy!

Join me in PAWT 3 !

See ya!

Hollingday in the White Stuffs - SNOW - Pawt 1

Hiya all!!  We are FINALLY HOME!!!

I am VERY pleased to report we "made it out alive" and now it's time to tell you all about the GREAT snow hollingday we had. Now it's time to share the GREAT adventure with all my mates - furry and not so furry!

You know how we had to drive for 87,000 hours to get to our destinations. Well, the peeps made sure I had a nice comfy spot on the backseat to curl up in and sleeps .... and then every couple of hours they let me out for a sniffs and wee and stroll around. We stopped in some funny little towns, and sometimes I got to share the snacks the peeps bought.

I'm not the greatest of car travellers .... so this trip was a bit of a test  for me .... and I PAWssed it my furiends.

Here we are being greeted by the PAWsonal Manager (Deezie) of our Motel in Swan Hill, Victoria. It's the ONLY doggie VIP Motel in this town, and mum is still "high-fiving" herself that it all worked out. Mum says sorry - she took four shots of Deezie and I meeting .... and they were so blurry .... we were movin' at true speed you know!

Right .... here is our room in the Motel ... nice big bed for the peeps ... and ....

Mum says the motel is very dated and had "crime scene stained" carpets .... but she didn't care. It was clean and WARM, and let me be inside - this was the MAIN CONSIDERATION and we were VERY happy with that!!

A familiar spot for me - this is my travelling bed that is on the backseat. Mum found it amazing that until I am comfy with my new surrounds ... I do not jump up on the beds/couch/ etc but prefer my blue bed.

And because I travel on a pretty much an empty tum tums .... I was STARVING and as soon as mum started to prep my dinner in the bathroom .... I gots VERY excited, my tail goin' a million miles a minute here!

And the peeps had their annual treat of McDonalds!!! So I gots to help with their beefs burgers... Yum Yum in my Tum Tum !!

We had a good nights sleeps .... had toast for breakfast .... packed up, and then jumped in the car. But we were not goin' anywhere because we could NOT see OUT the windows. There was ice covering the windows so dad had to do some clean up first!

Mum had to take a picture of the outside temperature from the dashboard ..... see the 2 degrees under the red light??? That's 35.6F. And that is after the sun came up at 7:00am. So overnight it was freezings my furiends!! The car even flashed up the warning "possible icy conditions" on the screen!!

So lots more drivings .... and I got a huge run around on the Shepparton Oval, snacks in Benalla ... then we arrived in Bright (where mum and dad dad's friends live). Here I am having a leg stretch and grass sniff by the Ovens River. This river is supplied from the melting snows up the mountains where we are heading next!!

OOOOooooo mum got so excited when we set off again and saw the tops of the mountains. We are just entering the last little town, Harrietville, before we hit the mountains .... we collected our snow chains for the car from a shop in Harrietville.

A nice young man demonstrated to dad dad how to fit these chains (in case we get stucks) and he LOVED me!! And also LOVED my pawsonalised and blingy paracord collar that my uncie made for me!! I liked him too. He was very impressed that I was going to the snow with my peeps.

OK - back on the road again, and within about 10 mins the outside world started changin' a bit!!

What the heck is wrong with the ground up here??? There is white stuffs everywhere!!!

This is pawt of our road up!

Are you people SURE about all THIS????? It's gone all white stuffs outside?????!!!!!!

AAAAiiiiiiii CARUMMMMMBBBBAAA - Look at how deeps it is!!

We have reached the top of the Alpine region and this is Mount Hotham. A big skiing resort/villiage. This is popular with the people of Melbourne as it's much closer for them - not a two day drive like we had!!

We drive through Hotham to get to our village (Dinner Plain) because dawgs are not allowed at Hotham - it is a National Pawk (unfair I know) - in fact the peeps are not even allowed to stop the car or they will get a fine! So we just drove real slow to get some shots for you.

Onwards to our Villiage.

Pawt 2 of this Great Adventure to follow!!

This and That ......

Can you F-E-E-L my PAIN....... my furiends...

Can You ????? (Big sigh!!!)

You know we are driving for two days soon and will end up someplace so COLD that we will all live in SNOW in a SNOW CHALET for a little while?? Well my mum thought she better get me ready. We have concluded that my pink puffer jacket is too snug and I will have to borrow Scarlet's. Also - why do jacket manufacturers think that Hoods are a good thing for us dawgs??? The moment I jumped off my ottoman with this hood - it went over my eyes and I couldn't see A THING!! Lucky it snaps off!!

Even my pawrents are getting ready to cover their human paws and heads.

I will be AMAZED if we make it OUT ALIVE !!! I'm starting to get a little concerned. Apparently we have to put chains around our car tyres to drive the mountain road too. I hope my pawrents are up to all this.

Anywho - on a lighter note - GUESS WHO got a PRESENT in the mail???????    YUPS ME!!!!!!!

A box from Malaysia just for ME!!

My Auntie Tooki-Jo from Kota Kinabalu send me a Proboscis Monkey to play with!!! I think that means a monkey with a Big Nose! See I even got a nice card. Thanks Very Much - Auntie Tooki-Jo, CoCo and Wawa!! You're the BEST XXXX

Out on a walk with my mum, (dad dad was busy) I met a nice Puggy called Osker .... I thought it was my mate Frank the Tank, but it wasn't. 

Time to go - See Ya Round Osker!!

Mum remembered her iPhone on this walk (for a change).

My dad dad had a Birthday. He's thousands of years old now. Mum made him Tempura Battered Soft Shell Crab (with sweet chilli and coriander)...

and made an Asian side salad and steamed rice.

Dad Dad was so happy - he gave mum a 10/10 score!!

Right ..... now that you've been updated with "this and that" me and my Monkey have a little catching up to do!!

Bye for now!! xxx

PeeS: If anyone out there has any snow survival tips for my Pawrents and me (Uncie said take lots of tissues because your nose runs heaps in the cold) please feel free to pawss them on. That way I MIGHT just make it out ALIVE!!