This weekend my cousin celebrated her birthday. It was being held outside together with family members from both her and her partner and around 40 dogs. It was really fun but embaresing at times ❤
My family and I got invited to a birthday party that were being held outside for my cousin. Unfortunately with my dads current condition my parents couldn’t join, but me and my sister decided that it would be nice to be with family and be outside. The celebration was being held in the woods with a lovely BBQ. It required my mum to drive us since it was pretty far away and would have take us way too long time to go there by public transport. When we arrived at the parking station we had a bit of trouble figuring out where to go since there were so many paths and we had never been there before, but after walking back and forth for around 15 min we finally found the right path and were on our way.
When we arrived at the campsite we saw a lot of familiar faces from family members. Most of them we hadn’t seen since Christmas, but other we hadn’t seen since me and my sister was very young. The people attending were my second cousin, our aunt and uncle, my uncles two sons and their entire family which consist of partners and 5 kids, my cousins partners, mother, father and sister to the partner of the birthday girl, my ex-uncle (aka my cousins father) and his girlfriend. We were total around 16 people and around 40 dogs too.
My ex-uncle have always been a fan of dags and he is into dog racing. For those who doesn’t know what that inntale it means you have one carriage, then a line with around 9 dogs pulling it through a snowy trail. Throughout the years he have gotten more and more dogs and now he has a new girlfriend who are also interested in the same things. Thankfully most of the dogs where kept in away for the main duration of the party.
The entire celebration was amazing, lots of good foods and desserts. Lovely company and it was so nice to finally get to be outside and hang with people. Since lockdown it has been way less of that happening. The dogs were always super nice and played around the huge area. My cousin got some amazing gift that she could use for when she was on her outdoor trips. Everything was nice and joyful before the storm.
Since it was outside on a public campsite there arrived other people with their families. It is also that time of the year where dogs have to be on a restraint, but they thought it would be fine because the dogs were pretty well behaved. Then it got a bit out of hand from time to time because some dogs went over either out of curiosity, greeting the strangers dog or try to steal their food, There were a couple of times where we had to call the dog back or go and get it away from them since they were being annoying. Which when piled up became a bit embarrassing, plus that dogs aren’t always quite so their were also a lot of barking happening too. The most embarrassing moment was after most of the party had left my ex-uncle decided to put out the rest of the dogs so that they could get some fresh air and do their stuff. Now just all 40 dogs on a line and most of them barking or crying for food and stench from them when decided to go number two. Even my cousin got embarrassed at that time. They way they ate was that he had two giant doggo rolls as they are called that was total for 18kg and then he used an axe to chop them into big chunks of meat which he just through to the dogs. So it was not only party for the people but also a dog party xD.
By that time we were about to leave. The rest was going to spend the night because they were heading out for a trip in the morning together.
All in all it was a great day and I had a lot of fun hanging around and talking to people. We are still waiting and hoping that stuff will open up throughout this month. I wish you all a happy last week of April.
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