This past weekend was the first weekend of Andy's freedom of no studying for boards. We took hold of this opportunity to explore a bit. We decided to go to Palouse Falls which is about an hour and a half northeast of where we live. It was a beautiful day: clear skies with a few puffy clouds and hot! You drive through a lot of long country roads with massive fields and hills surrounding you, so we rolled our windows down, turned up the music and drove admiring God's untouched (meaning hardly any man-made stuff, so unlike the mid-west) creation. Buck too enjoyed the scenes (you can only guess what he loved seeing most: cows, in case you forgot).
So it's a really cool state park. You can hike anywhere and um, yup there's a waterfall (Palouse Falls... water fall, get it?). We didn't do any swimming, it takes a while to get to the water and we were un-prepared as to how hot it was and how much drinking water we were carrying. So we hiked along the river for a bit and then walked around the canyon rim. We then climbed up through a crevice that was pretty steep, you had to lift your self up a lot and it was wet and cold. Buckley is one heck of a hiker, minus one spot where he was too short, he shot up that crevice and kept looking back at me and Andy like "hey you guys are slow... Come on!". He also did really well without a leash. At another point I decided to stay back while Andy and Buck continued down and Buckley's paws started hurting and he sat down (black rock on a hot day, no good for dog pads). He was quite a bit away (I could see him though, no trees this part of WA) and I called for him and he hiked his way back up to me while Andy continued down further.
*I bet you're wondering if when we have kids if I'll stop giving you so much information on Buckley, probably not. Then you'll just have to read about Buckley AND our kids. Trust me, these posts will just keep increasing with time.*
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