Norm & Sultan at El Ten Ten Pia

Dear Ildy & Federico,

How are you enjoying your holiday? I am enjoying mine with Tio Norm and Tiacita Nancy. They took me "out for a drink." They had limanada, but I only got aqua. Tia Nancy keeps nagging at me to drink mas aqua, pero no me gusta el agua. She is learning. Today she learned that if she me habla en español I will go the direction she wants me to go. I wonder how she learned that trick? Federico?
Please do not worry. We are all well and enjoying our time together and tiacita Nancy told me that La gripe porcina no hará perros enfermos. Soy un perro afortunado!

con grandes cortezas y mucho amor
Sultan - buen perrito

Postcards from Sultan

Dear Frederico & Ildiko,
I hope you had a safe and comfortable journey to Europe. I miss you , but Tio Norm and Tia Nancy are being kind to me. I like the way Tio Norm scratches me behind the ears and Tia Nancy gives me bits of cheese when she cooks. I will soon have them trained. This morning Tia took me on my walk. She thought she could choose the route. Ha! I showed her. In the end we went my way. She is learning.
Tia Nancy says from now on this will be MY blog. She will only put things on it about me so you can follow along with my days. She will have a different blog for her family. It will be http://www.momentosmagicosensm.blogspot.com/ But you will probably only want to check this one because it is all about me!

I slept good last night. At first I snuggled with Tio Norm, but later toward morning I curled up by Tia Nancy. Oh, and Tia Nancy says to tell you that I am not watching the door and that is a good sign......But I do miss you very much.
su buen perrito,

Sultan

Norm & Sultan

Sutlan is not yet our responsibility - that doesn't begin until Saturday, however, he has been to the casita a few times for visits and is starting to warm up to us - especially Norm. Norm named this photo, " Two Old Dogs." :-)

At Belles Artes

Belles Artes is one of the art schools in San Miguel. It's an old convent turned into a school and when you walk around it in the afternoon, with the cool breeze coming through the foyer, you can almost sense all those little nuns around you - those that spent their lives in this place.

Nancy loved the mural of the women. We don't know if it's new, but it was new to us.

At the Botanical Garden

This week we're seeing the sites that would be hard to see with Sultan, since he won't be coming to us until Saturday. Yesterday we trekked out to the Botanical Gardens and were they ever in their glory! We've never seen the cacti in bloon before -- Magnificent!

Sultan in San Miguel

This is the adorable schnauzer we will be caring for while in San Miguel. He looks a lot like Olie (Joe's dog, but he's younger than Oli and very intelligent. Not to say that Oli isn't, but Sultan is almost human in the way he communicates with his cute facial expression and cocks of the head. He took us on our first walk this evening and believe me this little pooch is going to be good for us. He really made us 'step up the pace!"