<<Florida Meeting -- plans!!>>

The weekend of May 7th(Fri.) - May 9th(Sun.)

This is the weekend which mostly everyone agreed on.
If you'd not able to make it, we'll always have more, i'm sure.
Or, you can suggest other dates or times you'd be able to attend.

I'd really like some more people to come, as it's only been Valerie, Lauren, and I at the most.
Not that I don't mind Valerie or Lauren's company, along with Duke and Honey, but I'd like to meet more of you! :)


Ok, So .. these are suggestions from experience.

The dog park and dog beach are much more enjoyable at sunrise and sunset.
The dog beach especially at sunset. It's gorgeous.
The beach is much more enjoyable after going to the dog park, when the dogs are worn out.
So we can just sit, chat, and watch the sunset, enyoing ourselves.
*The dog beach is 4 dollars per car for entrance*
*The dog park is off-leash but they must have up-to-date tags.*
*You must have your dog on leash at the Dog Beach*
*There is a small dogs side, and a large dogs side at the dog park*
*There are pavilions, grills, and picnic tables that are available upon reservation at the dog park*



I need everyone who plans on, or would wish to attend (with high intentions on doing so)
To answer the following questions:


1. Would you rather go to the beach, park, or both?
If both, please let me know if you'd like to make it 2 days, or into 1 day.

2.Would you rather: eat-out for lunch, Have a BBQ with everyone bringing a dish of choice, or do lunch on your own?

3.How many dogs or people are you brining along with you?

4.Do you need any suggestions on where to stay while in the area?

5.Do you want to meet up somewhere before going, so you can follow us? Or would you rather just get directions

5. Which day do you prefer? Friday the 7th, Saturday the 8th, or Sunday the 9th.

If anything else you think needs to be added, let me know.

I will offer my phone number to anyone who may need it when the time comes near.

Please, please, respond ASAP so I can let my parents know what's going on ahead of time.

Thanks!! :)

I think I might..if I can still go without a pup that is lol. I'd still like to meet you guys and your pups...

I def wanna go :) I am closing on my new house on May 3rd...so things might be tight. I'm up for any of the days though. I will have to play it by ear and see how things are going at that time. But due to the circumstances, I'd only wanna do one day. Since it's about a 5 hour drive, i'd just leave super early, spend the day, then drive home.

1. Would you rather go to the beach, park, or both?
If the beach says you must have a leash...i'd rather the park. i hate leashes! and i want the pups to be able to run free. our beach doesn't have that rule.

2.Would you rather: eat-out for lunch, Have a BBQ with everyone bringing a dish of choice, or do lunch on your own? whatever the consensus is. i can easily bring something.

3.How many dogs or people are you brining along with you? one person (me) and 2 dogs

4.Do you need any suggestions on where to stay while in the area? i'll just be there for the day (or can i stay with you kay? lol jk)

5.Do you want to meet up somewhere before going, so you can follow us? Or would you rather just get directions? directions are fine...

5. Which day do you prefer? Friday the 7th, Saturday the 8th, or Sunday the 9th? i will have to play it by ear...


super cutes siggy kay!!

I'm working the 8th-10th. But, we can always do something before then. I might see if I could get the weekend off if it's a definate go. But, we do need to do something before then, anyway. And, you know I love the dog beach the best and so does Duke but we're flexible.

Hey, this is Josh speaking on behalf of Moose and co. :p

1. Would you rather go to the beach, park, or both?
If both, please let me know if you'd like to make it 2 days, or into 1 day.
No preference here, whatever works out with everyone else. If we do both, we'd like to do 2 days since we will be staying overnight no matter what.

2.Would you rather: eat-out for lunch, Have a BBQ with everyone bringing a dish of choice, or do lunch on your own?
Again, whatever works out best for everyone else. We are pretty flexible over here. If we do a BBQ, we'd have no problem bringing something.

3.How many dogs or people are you brining along with you?
Brooke, Moose, Zoey, and I are coming...2 dogs, 2 people. :p

4.Do you need any suggestions on where to stay while in the area?
Yes, any suggestions are more than welcome. Preferably something close to everything. :)

5.Do you want to meet up somewhere before going, so you can follow us? Or would you rather just get directions
Just directions are cool...

5. Which day do you prefer? Friday the 7th, Saturday the 8th, or Sunday the 9th.
Saturday and/or Sunday...we will be driving out on Friday night, aand probably driving back late Sunday night or Monday morning.

We can't wait to meet all of you, Moose and Zoey are excited to meet some new pups too. :p;)

Ok, I've got it off unless something comes up. Nothing is written in stone around here. We'll just have to see how it goes. As of now, I'm planning on coming. How about making it easy and doing sandwiches or something? Whatever would be easiest for you.

I can say that I'm 95% sure I will be there, after last time I'm leaving 5% just in case I have another mishap. :(


1. Would you rather go to the beach, park, or both?
If both, please let me know if you'd like to make it 2 days, or into 1 day.
It doesn't really matter, they both have there pros and cons for me. My dogs don't do water, but in the park I'm not sure about the small dog side and large dog side, it just seems like that would keep us seperate.

2.Would you rather: eat-out for lunch, Have a BBQ with everyone bringing a dish of choice, or do lunch on your own?
BBQ would be better for me, I hate to leave my babies in the car while we ate out. I will be happy to bring stuff for a BBQ.

3.How many dogs or people are you brining along with you?
1 person and 2 dogs maybe 1 if I bring a larger dog.

4.Do you need any suggestions on where to stay while in the area? Thats not a problem. I'm close enough that I'll being going home.

5.Do you want to meet up somewhere before going, so you can follow us? Or would you rather just get directions
Just give me directions that will be fine.

5. Which day do you prefer? Friday the 7th, Saturday the 8th, or Sunday the 9th.
Saturday the 8th or Sunday the 9th works for me. I will most likely only do 1 day, I have to get home to care for my other babies.

Thanks for responding everyone..

I'll respond and answer any questions, post directions and such when i'm more awake! :p

Heh..I take it as a no then :P

KayAnn, also didn't want your parents to feel pressured for me to stay there. I can stay at hotel if you need me to. Just let me know, ok?

I can't take Zeke :( My mom hates me or something..I'm gonna try again though, I don't see what the big deal is other then she doesnt want to sit beside zeke

OK, so how about this~

We meet up at the dog park on Saturday, the 8th.
Let the dogs play and then Eat. We'll have to tie them up or hold their leashes
while we eat unless you feel safe keeping them in the park alone.
There's plenty of trees and such that we can easily wrap leashes around.

For lunch~
I can get my parents to buy lunch meats, lettuce, bread, mayonaise and so on.
I'll prepare everything, put it in containers -- and when we're ready to eat
everyone can put together their own sandwhich with whatever they want on it.
Do any of you have prefrences on to what kind of meat to buy?
Everyone is welcome to bring anything to go with the sandwhiches.
We'll probably buy a few bags of chips as well.

Drinks?~ Anything you want to bring. There will be water for the pups of course.
We'll probably have a cooler full of sodas.


A.L. Anderson Park
39699 US 19 N
Tarpon Springs, FL 34689
(727) 937-5410

You all can go to www.mapquest.com to print up driving directions;
from your house to the park - or from wherever you're coming from.
Either that or you could give me your address and I'll find directions for you.

My phone number is offered to anyone who's coming and may need to call on the way
or whatever for extra directions, which probably my father will help you out with.

Here are two maps that I found; one is just a map of where the park is, and the other is a map of the actual park.
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v...simmy/map1.jpg
http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v...simmy/map2.jpg
We'll probably have pavillion 6 or 7 -- or just use one of the many picnic tables.

Here's A site about A.L. Anderson Park.
If you want the full maps.


My suggestion as where to stay is Knights Inn. It's RIGHT in front of my neighborhood, and they allow pets.

Another site for Knights Inn; Click Here.

Directions from the hotel to the Dog park;
Leave Hotel; go NORTH on US19.
Pass Klosterman Rd and Anderson Park is on the right hand side.

Sometimes it's easy to miss, so look out for it.
Again, we could always meet up somewhere before if you're in the area.



After the Dog Park we can always go to the dog beach to watch the sunset.
That's if anyone's interested and still in the area.
We all might be tired out by then and may just want to go home.

Also, if anyone is in the area Sunday we can always make plans together to do something!


Valerie~ You're welcome to stay here, it's no problem.


So far, if everyone plans on coming, a guess on how many will be coming;
Dogs - 6
People - 9 - including my parents and I -- approx. more.
I really hope everyone can make it. Lets hope for good weather as well!


I'll see if Lauren wants to come with Honey or any of her family's dogs.


If I left any questions unanswered please let me know and i'll try my best to answer them.


Simba will probably not be coming to the meeting. Unless one of my parents want to stay out of the park with him, more than likely my father would.

Well looks like we're going to florida for sure. But my mom def doesnt want Zeke to come..so I guess I'll go tag along just to meet you guys and your pups. She said maybe someother time I can take Zeke (I doubt it lol ) but maybe next time I can take him :D

The plans sound good, if you need anything else for it just ask. I'll be glad to help you.


slleipnir, I'm sorry you can't bring Zeke but it's good you are coming. If you want I'll have 2 dogs there and I'm sure one of them would love to play with you. If you can deal with a nutty MinPin. lol

So is it hard to find from Orlando? O_O We're going to be staying there...and last time we were in florida we got lost EVERY time we went out ;) Really sad.

Anyway, Kay should come to Disney World when I'm there :rolleyes: