We woke the kids at 7:45 this morning so we could go on a hike at Turkey Run, off the GW Parkway, before too many others had the same idea. They were definitely not nice about it, but once we got to the river and Sasha staring digging up sand and barking happily, they stopped giving us the stink eye. Maxine was so mad at being woken up early on a weekend that she had vowed to only talk to Edwin today, but she kept forgetting. She’s not very good at staying mad, unlike her brother…
It ended up being a four mile hike, partly up big boulders by waterfalls, so we had to lift and pass Sasha a few times. She kept veering off into pools of water, trying to avoid the inevitability of being hoisted up rock faces. So humiliating. When we got home, I had to bathe that stinky dog – another very unpleasant experience.
All in all, I think the good outweighed the bad this morning.
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