Max's caching report

Hi. I'm Max. Eight pounds of furry dog. They call me a Havanese. A few weeks ago, my human put me in a box and shipped me on an airplane to my new humans. It took me a while to get used to my new humans - they wanted me to go to the bathroom OUTSIDE, imagine that! Anyway, now that the weather is nicer, the lady (she calls herself Mommy when she talks to me though she clearly does NOT look like my dog mom...) started taking me for longer walks outside. Sometimes, she has even taken me in her car to other places to go walking.

The first time she did this, we ended up at a nice place that had paved paths. We stopped a lot, though. Sometimes it was me. I just had to check out all the interesting smells and plants and such. Not to mention the other dogs, all of who were bigger than me. But sometimes we stopped and Mom checked on a container hidden away from other humans. She calls them geocaches. I checked out a few of them and they were ok, just something else interesting.

Then on Wednesday we went in the car to the vet. That wasn't so much fun, I got a shot. But afterwards we went in the car to find more of those geocaches. I think Mom likes having someone with her, she says she's done this for a while but usually by herself. Sometimes when we stopped, she got out, was gone a few minutes, then came right back. But sometimes she took me with her and we got to explore some new places then find one of those geocaches, too. Nothing much in there interesting for us dogs, mostly people toys and stuff like that. I also got to try something called a McDonald's cheeseburger and fries. I didn't really like them, Mom says that's good because they aren't so good for me anyway.

Then yesterday (Friday) we had the best day of all. We got in the car and first we stopped at PetSmart. Not sure what that is, but they like for us dogs to visit and I got attention from lots of people! Mom bought me some treats and we were on our way. We drove to another park! This one was grassy and we walked for a while, then Mom discovered we were on the wrong side of a creek and we had to walk through some stuff to get to the bridge to cross. Mom calls that "bushwhacking." Well, I'm too little for that so Mom carried me. Then we walked some more and found two more of those geocaches. We also met some geocaching friends of Mom's that gave me some more attention. Did some more driving and found a few more caches. Then drove to a place Mom called "Grand Haven" and went to a park by a really big lake. I think Mom called it "Lake Michigan." We walked up some steep stairs (Mom carried me) and found another cache there, too.

Then we drove on the highway for a while and ended up in a place called Holland. Found some more caches in some more parks, including one that was a half mile away from our car. Even though Mom carried me when we had to do more of that bushwhacking stuff, it was still a long walk for my little legs. I was tired when we got back to the car! I slept most of the way home after our day of adventure. I hope Mom takes me geocaching again soon!