Our club's Spring 2012 Picnic will be Saturday, June 16th, 2012, from 12pm - 4pm, at Weissport Park in Weissport, PA.

Plans are to meet at the Canal Pavilion at 12:00pm for a nice Eskie walk along this beautiful trail in northeast PA. The event will be end at 4pm.

There is a covered pavilion with tables and benches at the end of the park ing lot. This is where we will convene with our snacks, beverages, etc.

For those using online mapping services or GPS devices, the below address will take you to the restaurant right at the corner of the entrance to the paved road leading to the parking lot where the Canal Pavilion (with its red roof) is located:

Central Lunch
100 Bridge St
Weissport, PA 18235

Here is a link to Google maps with a street view of this restaurant's corner (Central Lunch) and entrance to the parking lot where the Canal Pavilion with its red roof is located:
http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&q=%22central+lunch%22+weissport+pa&fb=1&gl=us&hq=%22central+lunch%22&hnear=Weissport%2C+PA&cid=0%2C0%2C7867870971955406939&layer=c&cbll=40.83017%2C-75.700035&panoid=gptay16O7c6Wq88MR0vlBA&cbp=12%2C342.97%2C%2C0%2C0&ll=40.830021%2C-75.699331&spn=0%2C0.003422&z=19

Attached are also some photos taken from the street view of Google maps of the entrance to the parking lot, at the restaurant's corner, and of the red-roofed Canal Pavilion that we will be meeting under at noon:

Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and maybe even new ones, for the love or our breed :)

Please note: Non-members are asked to bring a small monetary donation to the club, along with an edible or drinkable contribution.

 

New sections added to our website!

2 new sections have been added to our website:

Member News
Where members can share their photos, videos, funny stories, and brags with a community who understands your life centered around your Eskie!

Rainbow Bridge
Tributes to our furry friends we hope to meet again on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge.


Check them out, and be sure to send this kind of information to us at aedfcgp@gmail.com so that we can contribute your news to our Eskie community.

Our Spring Picnic - 2011

Our club had its Spring Picnic on Saturday, 5/21/11. It was a picturesque day at the Lehigh Canal, with members of the club greeted by the custom table covering with our club logo hanging on the pavilion. The covered pavilion offered the perfect amount of shade over the picnic tables for all our fluffy pups and their human companions.

A smorgasbord of treats that looked tempting for people, but were for canine consumption, decorated the tables (several people were fooled by the delectable looking items for pups only!). A basket filled with other goodies was on the side, waiting to be drawn out of a raffle and given to the lucky winner later on in the day.

Eskies kept filling the area… sometimes in pairs and sometimes in droves, but always with big smiles on their faces. Name tags were provided for the people to help everyone recognize each other and their dogs. Old friends reconnected with each other, and extended furry family members said their hellos from the rear. Their noses guided them to the tables where cheese, carrots, cauliflower and cookies awaited their eager mouths, with many doing tricks over and over and over again to prove their worthiness for these morsels. Several were very good at convincing others that they were starved at home and absolutely needed the nourishment.

After a quick club meeting, club dog member, Atka, the AMAZING Eskie, with his little sister, Nuka, entertained everyone with a little part of their tricks show under the pavilion center.

Afterwards, it was time to meander along the trail, with the Lehigh River and Canal flanking both sides. The sea of fluffy white drew much attention from passersby, and the pack thoroughly enjoyed themselves with the adventure of all the new sights and smells the trail offered them.

A rest after the walk allowed the dogs to rehydrate and recharge, the raffle was drawn, and lucky winner, Hugh, left a happy camper with the basket full of goodies in tow.

There is no better way to wrap up a lovely day other than with a group picture of all our furry friends and their 2-legged family members. The photographers whistled, chirped, waved their arms about, and gallantly made odd jungle-like calls to try to get all those pairs of lovely dark brown eyes looking at them at the same time. Although 20 strong earlier (2 had to leave early), the remaining 18 Eskies tried their best to all look at the puparazzi. Can a dog be blamed for giving his rapt attention to his owner instead of the photographer? ;-)

A compilation of photos and videos from the day were captured by Sandy Wingert and posted on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9BcrTaXJkA  

It was a lovely gathering of Eskies and their fans - one that whetted everyone's appetite for the next fun event in the fall! If you are interested in joining us, drop us a line at aedfcgp@gmail.com to get more details. We welcome all members who share our enthusiasm for the Eskie breed!

Welcome to our new website :)

This is our first post on our new website to see how things will look for our club, the American Eskimo Dog Fanciers Club of Greater Philadelphia (AEDFCGP). This will eventually get deleted when the look and the feel of the website is finalized. Please bear with us while we continue construction on this site to bring you the latest happenings of our club!