"The Two Yutes", Recreation Park Dog Park; 02.27.11

French Fry and Debit

Doggie walk of fame

Recreation Park - entrance to dog park

Casting Club pond





What a great dog-gone day!  After some running around with errands and house work, it's already 4pm when we headed out to take Tico out for his exercise.  We originally were planning to go to El Dorado Park, but it turns out; they charge $7/car, and there's nowhere to find a street parking to dodge the fee.  Maybe one of these days we'll go.  It's a great, large park; just not feeling the paying for it today.

So we hopped back on the 605, to the 405 freeway, and got on the 22nd and hit the Recreation Dog Park, which is on 4900 E 7th Street, Long Beach, CA  90804.

The dog park has its own parking area; but there's way too many parking spots within the park itself.  We found one by the entrance past the dog park's entrance, so we had to cross the Casting Club.

The dog park has a separate area for large and small dog parks, but the small dog area are rarely used; so much so that I got confused and told Bryan to enter to the right, because when we approached; the large dog park only had small dogs - - so I thought the other area is the one for us.  It's such a cool dog park - - it comes with tree trunk, tires, tunnels, mounds, bridge, and whatever obstacle courses you could think of.  There's a water fountain, and a community board.  The park itself is 3 acres in size; so you don't have to worry about space.  The locals are mainly in their 20's and 30's couples who live in the area; but there are many of different age ranges as well.

In the beginning, B and I were so excited about the obstacle courses; we wanted Tico jump over the tree trunk, go up on the bridge, get under the tunnel, but we only managed to make him do the jump over the tree trunk.  Well, one of many ain't too bad.  About 45 minutes later, we met a Filipino guy named Paul with a small black chihuahua mix who's standing over the plastic bridge.  Paul then called his white chi-mix named French Fry to join the black dog named Debit.  He said that Debit's b-day was April 15, so he figured it was fitting.  He couldn't call him credit - - then Paul would have to yell "bad credit" when the dog misbehaves - - so cute.  Bryan and I enjoyed talking to Paul and his partner George.  They have been going to the park for a year, and so far they liked it.

At the end of the day, Paul wanted to show me a trick he taught French Fry: he told him to "come here" (halika), "sit" (upo), and "go" in Filipino.  And French Fry did them!  I was laughing so hard...that was crazy cute.  Paul said he can't really speak Filipino well, since he's been in the US at the age of 2; but he can understand very well.  So he said "don't let my non-accent fool you!  I can understand"...lol.  My accent can get pretty strong, especially if I'm nervous or get excited. 

"The Two Yutes" is a quote from our all-time favorite movie; "My Cousin Vinny".  It's one of the famous courtroom scenes when Joe Pesci's character was trying to describe the two young defendants played by Ralph Macchio and Mitchell Whitfield.  Bryan and I can practically make a day-long conversation using all of the quotes from that movie.  I mean; there's always an excuse to belt out:

"Oh yeah, you blend".

"How's your chinese food?"

"It's an industry term"

"You...shower, I'll get your....suit"

"You were serious about that?"

"Yeah, well what are you? A...world traveler?"

"Beans make you fart...(response:) we got a convertible"

"Hey, a burp is spontaneous.  A burp is not romantic"

"Are you sure?  (Response:) I'm positive"

"No!  The defense is wrong!"

"I did say that.  Would you say that?"

"And the way that this case is going, I ain't never getting married"

"Would you give a (darn) what kind of pants the (guy) that shot you is wearing?"

and

"The two yutes!"

"The two what?"

"Uh, did you say yutes?"

"Oh, excuse me, your honor.  The two YOUTHS"

Case closed.