Fri 2nd June: Hotel gardens are nice
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Mum had important Mum Stuff to do, so we all went as a Pack and stayed in a hotel. I had been there before, when I was very little, but I still didn't like it very much. It is always very stressful when Mum and Dad put all their bags by the front door, and I have to go and sit with them, and worry in case they forget me. I mean, I know that Mum and Dad wouldn't ever forget me. I know that. But I still worry.
This is our hotel. There weren't any signs up about paws keeping humans on leads, so we didn't. Unless we were walking inside the hotel, of course.
This bit was the posh bit. We were staying in another bit or the hotel, around the corner, that was very nice, but not quite so posh.
We had lots of lovely trundles in the garden. Mum said the garden was big enough to call it the grounds. We managed to have a walk every time we went out for a widdle, so we got lots of walking and sniffing.
This is called a Water Gate. There is a river through the gate, and when people used to arrive at the house (now hotel), they got off the boat and walked up the steps. Mum says it is like a bus stop, but for a boat. The river is green cos of the waterlilies.
Tara climbed on the wall, of course.
Mum is going mad for the roses. Again.
This is us showing Dad the round about way back to our hotel room den, with the best sniffs.
there's the river again
and that is the walled garden where they used to grow all the veg stuff that humans eat. It is all overgrown now, and full of weeds.
Tara likes bridges. I don't. They are a bit high.
This is a monkey puzzle tree. It is a lot bigger than me, isn't it?
and there is a spashy fountain too
Mum said she was expecting to be eaten alive by bugs and things, but nothing bit her at all.
These are some sniffy roses
and this is us being bored, while Mum stakes the rose pics.
We had a nice trip, although it would have been nicer if Mum hadn't gone out to do her MumStuff all day. 
But we got nice food. There was turkey breast and roast beef, wot Mum smuggled out of the dining room for us, and we had our normal stuff too, kept cold in a fridge thing in our den-room. And Tara didn't poo on the carpet, even though Mum had carpet cleaning stuff in the bag. So that was OK, And apart from barking when people walked past our room-den, she was quiet.
Mum and Dad had a conversation about Tara's barking, and made her sleep in the middle of the bed, with her lead on, so she couldn't jump off and go and bark at the door. After that, it was much more peaceful.
And she only ran out of the room once, and frightened an old lady (when Dad went out and didn't shut the door quick enough). But Dad said it was OK, cos he apologised and introduced them, and it turned out the old lady was more surprised than frightened. cos Tara isn't really scary, is she? Just silly and bouncy.
I think people liked us. We went and sat outside on the benches and had water and treats while Mum and Dad had drinks and stuff. People stopped and said hello, and stroked us. Some of them even liked Tara's hair. And there were lots of sniffs. Mum says that one lady started calling her Mrs Shih Tzu, and talked about her paws for AGES.
So I've decided that I like hotelling. And I want a garden like our hotel grounds please.
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