Although we’ve been sick the past few days, we still continued to force ourselves to go on walks twice a day with Ayla. Sometimes the 20-minute walk in the fresh air seemed to help us, and other times it was a struggle to get back home but we didn’t want Ayla to suffer for our sickness. The weather could have been a tad nicer since it only seemed to be raining when we wanted to go for a walk but I guess that’s just the area for you.

During the recent walks, we have come across a few interesting neighbors. One is a woman with two HUGE Irish Wolfhounds. Anyone with a large dog probably feels their dog isn’t all that large until it’s standing next to a regular sized dog like a Golden Retriever. But next to these dogs, Ayla is basically a dwarf. She could easily stand directly underneath them and all but her head would fit perfectly. We’ve actually seen the woman out walking with the two dogs before but unfortunately never got close enough to talk to her or find out what they were. I actually had to Google it since we were so amazed by the sheer size of the dogs that we forgot to ask what breed they are.

We also have discovered that there is a small collection of English speaking people here in our little town. I was told by a woman who we run into often that she met an American woman living in the city square and while we were out walking, we ran into a couple with two Pugs where at least one of the people is British (the woman didn’t really talk). It was actually his terrible German with a thick British accent that gave him away. lol

Of course, as many people who have dogs know, it is often the case that people don’t recognize you without your dog…thankfully Ayla is nearly always with us so that shouldn’t be too much of a problem for us in the future…