As usual, i'm a bit behind in my entries! Last friday brian and I took Champ hiking on sleeping giant mountain in hamden. What we thought was going to be a 45 minute "walk" ended up taking 2 and a half hours...oops. Clearly we're not experienced hikers! We ended up hiking 5.5 miles up, around, and down the mountain. We were under the assumption that the trail we took just did a loop and that we would end up back where our car was...WRONG. we ended up on the other sided of the mountain and then had to take a different trail back. it was an awesome workout though, and it really tired out champ, he loved it. We were a bit nervous b/c the trail was really rocky and steep at some points, but as we were sitting there trying to figure out how he was going to climb up the first steep part, we looked and he had already climbed up. so we knew the rest of the hike would be a piece of cake for him. thank God b/c sometimes when he gets tired and doesn't want to walk anymore he just lays down. do you know how hard it is to move 78 pounds of dead weight? thankfully he was having a blast and didn't have one problem. we got to the top of the mountain and the view was beautiful, who would have thought it would have been?? it's hamden,ct afterall. right after i snapped a pic, we heard a clap of thunder...great. luckily it remained sunny for the rest of the hike, although the thunder kept getting closer. It made things interesting thats for sure. It turned out to be a great day all around...i think Champ has been feeling neglected with the move and all of our traveling to weddings and what not so it was great to be able to give him our undivided attention for a few hours!
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