OH boy today we went hiking. Mom has been working a lot and studying a lot and we have not hiked in weeks. Everything was so amazing green!

Mom let me use the camera to take a picture of a flower. The flower is mostly behind my paw. Drat!

You have to watch out for mountain bikers. We were on TIGER Mountain! Tigers RULE!

When we got home we took a picture of this beautiful pot of flowers that Cheryl gave us. Last week she gave it to us. It is the one that I am standing right in front of. Cheryl is a good friend we wanted her to see how good the plants look on our deck.

On Friday at work it was Hawaiian Shirt Day!  Mom made me a Hawaiian shirt bandana!!!  Everybody said it looked great!

Then later we had Thai food for lunch. Here I am with Ron and Gregg. They are both so handsome!  I was good and did not stick my nose in their lunch. It was really a fun day!

Also here is a picture of me with Brandi and the vacuum cleaner at work. The vacuum is named The Shark!! It was The Tiger and The Shark!  Brandi is very protective of the vacuum it is supposed to be for our area. Here she is showing how she discourages anyone from borrowing it. Brandi is so beautiful and here she looks Fierce too!

My favorite thing happened today we went out to lunch!  I LOVE restaurants!!  This was one with Mexican food YUM! We had lunch with mom’s friend Tracy who is super nice and super gorgeous.

Tracy brought me a PRESENT!!!!!! It was in a special gift bag and everything!!! OMG!!!!

Look look look what I got!   It is a pair of drinking glasses with TIGER on them!!! Oh Tracy you are my bestest friend!  Oh wait Dixie is my best friend but Tracy you are my second best friend!

Then after work on the way home we got stopped by TWO trains it was super fantastic!

When we got home I asked mom to take another picture of me with my new special TIGER drinking glasses!  What a super duper day I had!

Mom has been spending a lot of time studying. That means looking at books. Here is one of the books it is about a Giant Hairball (I can relate) and has lots of pictures in it.

At work it was Tracey’s birthday!!  I got blue frosting on my whiskers HA HA HA!

This weekend we had to go to work and stay there all night!!!!  We went in at about 1 pm and did not leave until after 6 am the next morning!!!  It was a big important software upgrade blah blah blah Mom said she was tired but I thought it was great!!  Here I am hard at work.

The best part was afterwards when we all went out to breakfast I LOVE restaurants!

It has been a very busy week but we did get to go for a walk on a super sunny day. Mom is wearing a blue leopard shirt!  And I am wearing my Crystal Mountain bandana with my Whistler pin and my Boeing 737 pin.

Oh boy we have been having such a great time this week! We have been at a Kaizen event and in case you do not know what that is Kaizen is a Japanese word: Kai = change    Zen = ideal state

There was a big team at work that went through some special training and then we got to make equipment out of cardboard boxes and pretend to make airplane parts it was hilarious and super fun! Mom got very tired though. Here we are calculating numbers and deciding which cardboard to use next.

Also we had the BEST day EVER! We went to the Boeing factory to see them making airplanes!!!  For REAL not cardboard!!!!  It was FANTASTIC!!!  It was a huge building and we got to see a whole bunch of planes being built but we could not take pictures that was not allowed.  But mom got me a pin for my bandana in the gift shop!  It is a 737 pin that is the kind of plane we saw them making!!