Lauren's Lovely Life

 Our Puppy: Pilot On September 16, 2020,  we drove almost 2 hours to a German Shorthaired Pointer breeder. After we chatted for a bit, we got into our car with our new, 8 week old GSP!!!  When we got home, we immediately took him out back to let him go to the bathroom. We gave him his new toys and let him play. Though our grass is not hat long, pilot felt he had to take big leaps so that the grass would not touch him too much. We called him our little 'Prancing Deer!' As you would expect with our family of 7, we could not agree on what to name him. It was bout 3 days after we had gotten him when my dad just decided that his name would be Pilot. I like the name and no one really hated it so it turned out great. Now, his name really suits him. Because he is a hunter breed, he naturally learned how to slowly creep up o stuff. If you are wiggling one of his toys at a level he can reach (or even one that he cant reach), he will creep towards it, stalking it, and then all the s...

Here is some random info about the black death: The Black Death Right now in the world, we are experiencing the Coronavirus Pandemic. However, almost 300 years ago, an extremely large plague devastated medieval Europe. The Black Death.  It arrived in October the year 1347 from 12 boats coming from Messina. The so-called “death ships” had mostly dead or gravely ill sailors. When the people saw that they had disease aboard, they ordered them out of the port but it was too late, the infected rats that were overrun with fleas had jumped off the boat and gotten onto land. Ghost ships became a common sight. If a crew was aboard a ship and the fleas were too, often the entire crew would die and their ship would drift around aimlessly. The rats made good time, they were everywhere which meant so were the fleas. The fleas could hop off the rats onto a human, bite them and eventually, kill them. Where the fleas had bitten, large swollen bumps called buboes would show up, sometimes growing to...

Portugal On Thursday the 5th, my dad, Gentry and I took a plane really early in the morning to Portugal! When we got there we first went to a ropes course but were disappointed to find that it was too full. So we went to the Tower of Belam earlier than planned.  It was a big tower that had a little beach at the side of it. After that we stumbled upon a souvenir shop where I got a Portugal keychain (I've gotten a keychain from every country I've been to). From there, we went to the Lisbon zoo and saw an incredible dolphin show. Then we looked at some animals and it started to rain. the bird show had actually been way earlier that day according to the zoo map but the website had said it was in a few minutes. we missed. Unfortunately the reptile show didn't happen either because of the rain. After a long day, we got sundaes from McDonald's and apple pie. Then, we went back on an airplane set for Ireland.

Random crocodiles right outside the Mcdonald's. An Orange Tiger. A rainbow that wasn't even at the zoo I just wanted to put it in. (I did take this picture.)

The dolphin show at the Lisbon Zoo