Broiling...not the good kind.

Last week was broiling hot. On Tuesday I went with my human to the Do Zoo. That's where she goes to get groomed. It sounds like something else involving wild animals and, um...but, nevermind, it isn't. Anyway, here's a picture of me at The Do Zoo Hair Parlor. You can see another dog in the background. He was really jealous and barked whenever I got attention. Whatever. The people there were really nice and I got a milkbone. Mmmmmilkbones!

After my human was done being groomed we went to Oz Park. I thought it was going to be a bust, but guess what was right across the street - Dairy Queen! MMMMMMMMM! Soft serve ice cream!! Here's a picture of me enjoying my ice cream. More please! I didn't get any more.
The next day we went for a walk in Lincoln Park...or maybe it was later...it's hard to remember since it was so hot my brain fried. Here's a picture of me by some statue in Lincoln Park. Hans who? Can we go home now? We didn't. We walked around the pond instead. Why? I don't know. Apparently my human wanted me to see some cows. Are they turning on a spit? Sizzling on a hot grill? Then I'm really not interested. It was horrible. The wooden walkway isn't wood...it's some crap that burned my paws! Do I sound mad? I was. It really hurt! Here's a picture of me on the not-wood walkway that's searing the bottom of my paws off. TAKE ME HOME! Or to get ice cream, either one. We went home. Hey! I really wanted ice cream!

One day we went to the park by Belmont Harbor. My human walked me past the dog beach there, but she said it smelled bad so she didn't take me in. Instead she took this picture of me by some stupid pole. Sigh. Summer in Chicago sucks. I heard it snowed in Washington. I really think I should get some more ice cream for this.

Lincoln Park

After the disappointment of Wicker "Park", my humans took me to a real park - Lincoln Park. It smelled great! I took a long time walking around and sniffing everything. We walked over to North Pond Cafe. It smelled delicious! Can we go inside? We couldn't. They were closed.
Here's a picture of me outside North Pond Cafe. I'm starving. Then we walked by the pond. I was ready to jump in, but my humans wouldn't let me. Here's a picture of me looking for a good place to jump from.
See how nice the water looks? We saw some ducks and a goose. I tried to jog over and catch them but they went in the water. Hey, if you let me go in the water I can still catch them! They wouldn't let me. Here's a picture of me watching the ducks and goose swim away.
Hmph. We started to walk down a hill to another good spot to go in the water when a tree hissed at me. What the hell?! I didn't like it one bit! Then I saw the big goose up in the tree. Here's a picture of the goose in the tree that was hissing at us.
My human was still trying to go down the hill. Uh uh. No way! You'll have to go without me! I stood my ground. Here's a picture of me refusing to go anywhere near that goose tree.
I'm starting to rethink the whole catching a goose thing. Let's just go home and take a nap. We went home and took a nap.