Tuesday, August 01, 2006

My trip, the Hapoo trip

Hi all:
Yes indeed, this was a proper Hapoo trip, I tell you! One morning we
left the house with a suitcase and a quite huge Hapoo backpack. I could
smell food in it for sure, so that led me to the correct assumption that
I was finally taken by Chris and Shadow on a longer propper trip. First
we took the bus to the central station, then the two of them had
breakfast at one of the bakeries. And then we took a city train to a
place I had never been to before. Chris says neither has she, although
it is in the same city. Then the two humans bought some kind of tickets,
and then we had to wait a while before we took another bus. That was
packed, and Shadow was quite anoyed by the fact that the seats clearly
reserved for people like Chris were occupied and nobody even made the
move to offer one to Chris. But then he decided to be equally rude. We
practically ran along corridors and had to wait in front of a door, but
we were first in line. When the door opened we walked some more, climbed
a set of stairs and found ourselves in a nice and cool lounge. For once
I was allowed to take any space I wanted, so I at first gazed out of the
window. We were in a huge house that was swimming in the middle of the
water. Eventually it even started moving. I find it amazing that a house
with a food place in it, a few shops, cars, buses and trucks, stairs,
tables and seats and even elevators can swim in the water like Chris
herself, only much faster. That house, like every good house, even had
bathrooms, and a few other dogs that weren't all too friendly. Chris
calls that house in the water a ferry, but I am still amazed. I liked it
because it was nice and cool, and because I could sleep.

When we got out of the house, it wasn't all surrounded by water anymore,
but we walked quite casually on solid ground. Since the bus wasn't there
yet, Shadow discovered a little park where I could walk and turn in the
grass. I love that! Then we took a bus and two trains, and I had no
problems on either of them.

Chris calls the place we had arrived in Copenhagen, and she says it is
located in Denmark. She explained that Denmark is the reason why people,
or at least the majority of them, speak in a way I had never heard
before. Humans are weird! When I bark at a dog in Copenhagen, it surely
understands me. But when she talks to a person in Copenhagen, he or she
doesn't necessarily understand her, although she says many of them speak
German, and most of them know English.

I forgot to mention a detail that amazed both Chris and Shadow: On that
swimming house a lady aproached us and talked to me. As I was curiously
stretching forward to receive pets, Chris corrected me and said no. So I
sat and stayed with her. But after she gave the okay to look at that
lady, I got up, turned around and put my head in Shadow's lap, as he was
farthest away from that person. Chris says she has never seen me refuse
pets, and Shadow was impressed I took refuge with him. See Shadow,
toldya I like you!

Anyways, we walked around in that big city until we found our hotel.
Shadow and Chris were not extremely happy about the room. All the three
of us complained that it weas too warm in there, and the humans kept
saying it wasn't as nice as the rooms in previous hotels.

I will talk more later, I promise, but I think now Chris is tired and
wants to shut down the puter. So woofs and sniffs all kept till later,
cheers, Hapoo.