1st Birthday in the House

I know that it is actually tomorrow, Sept. 10th, but I am leaving this evening for a weekend trip, and I wanted to make sure I was able to wish my FIRST nephew a happy FIRST birthday!!! Right now the whole kit n' kaboodle is down there in the muggy Florida weather, probably swimming in the pool. I'm pretty proud of a little something I managed to pick up last weekend that I want to send in the mail. A birthday present, if you will, but surely one that will arrive in no less than a month. Heh.

This weekend at an attempt to enjoy the fleeting days of summer, some of us will take a trip to Erdek on the Marmara Sea. We will stay at a hotel called Akita, named after the dog, and appropriately enough, is said to have these dogs roaming the premises. Pretty interesting, eh? Kind of like the Hemingway house and his cats, only it's a hotel.. in Turkey.. with dogs.. that have a normal number of toes.. hmmm, maybe not at all similar.