Walk at racecourse and Honey's birthday party

We had a great weekend full of fun activities.

On Saturday morning, after doing the laundry, we went to Ellerslie Racecourse for a walk. It was a pleasant walk thanks to the beautiful spring weather with the blue sky and some cloud.

At the racecourse we watched people doing golf on a short golf course in the infield of the racecourse for a while. It was really an ideal weather for playing golf.

At first we were walking together peacefully, but all of sudden Cinnamon made a dash and was gone far away in the next moment. Although I was a little worried whether she would come back soon or not, she turned around and came back to us after exploring the field for a few minutes.

Back at home, being exhausted from a lot of running at the racecourse, Cinnamon fell in sleep on the deck.

In the afternoon, Cinnamon and I went to our friend Honey the Great Dane's 6th birthday party and had a great time with other dogs and dog lovers, while Cookie stayed home with his dad.

Cinnamon enjoyed playing with a four-month-old Great Dane puppy called Lexi. They looked like really good playmates.

We did some games, including Ian Dunbar's K9 Games, musical chairs and doggy dash.

In the musical chairs we were out after the first round, but it doesn't mean that Cinnamon couldn't sit and stay long enough. We were just unlucky with the timing that she stood up from the sitting position.

In the doggy dash, she beat a Shetland Sheepdog called Finnegan in the first round, but in the second round she was beaten by a German Shepherd called Kira by microseconds. Cinnamon ran very fast, but Kira was just too fast. In this sprint race, the dogs had to sit as soon as they reached the goal where their owners were waiting, and Cinnamon did it beautifully, which I am very proud of.

We also did egg and spoon race and champagne race. In both races, humans, with their dog's lead tied to their wrist, ran a course with their dogs. Something hilarious happened in the egg and spoon race, but I am not writing about it here as perhaps Honey is going to tell you all about it! In the champagne race, a nice cute boy volunteered to be the handler of Cinnamon, while his sister handled Honey. What a lucky girl Cinnamon was!

After all the fun games, dogs shared Honey's birthday cake, which her humans had made.

Actually Cinnamon got the biggest share of it, because everyone was so amused by how Cinnamon ate a big piece of cake at a mouthful that she was given a second piece. In fact, while big dogs were breaking their cake into small pieces and eating them one by one, Cinnamon was chewing up a whole big piece given to her in her mouth without dropping a crumb!

After that, people there were even more excited to see how Cinnamon was cleaning up all the cake crumbs on the floor like a vacuum, although it was nothing unusual to me as I see her doing that every day at home.

It was a really great party!! Thank you for inviting us, Honey!!