When we woke up today, Brad actually had some energy! So we decided to take advantage of it and go to Sam’s Club, where we’ve been wanting to go for a while.
I took my Jazzy Ultra Light wheelchair and Felix. He was wearing a turquoise vest to match my turquoise dress. You can see my heart monitor, too. We started off with Felix on the floor. We took a video of him heeling next to my wheelchair in the Christmas aisle. He was so good! I totally forgot to bring treats even! In the video, he does this begging type thing with two paws waving up and down while staring on his hind legs. So cute!
He walked next to my wheelchair for about three aisles, and then he decided he was done. He started to try to climb up on my foot plate, which is his sign he wants to be picked up. So he did the rest of the store on my lap and was very happy with that! He was totally chill and happy on my lap.
Sometimes I forget that laps are valid places for service dogs to be, and I think he should be walking on the floor. But as today showed me, even when he can be on the floor, Felix prefers to be in my lap! And that works out great for me, because he can help me more from there.
I got a picture of him looking at the camera while on my lap. He is such a cutie!
We were in the store a long time, probably about two hours! We went up and down almost every single aisle in the whole store! And we got so much stuff! But it was all good stuff that we needed to stock up on, or was a very good deal.
We fit everything into the trunk, which was good because we still had to do our regular Walmart pickup order afterwards! Can you believe it?! Luckily everything from Walmart did fit in the side part of our van with both Brad’s and my wheelchairs.
But it was a TON of work unloading all the food and toilet paper and stuff and putting it all away. Poor Tam got a blood sugar low from not eating for too long when we were about done. So that was scary! Luckily our friend Allison told us about these sugar tablets that work super fast and help out a lot.
Now we are eating and relaxing. I had a root beer float from some of the goodies that we got! Yum! And now to relax for the rest of the evening. I know we’re all looking forward to it. We deserve it, it was a long day!