Baxter and K K at Walnut Creek

My sister is back! It's her spring break and she's visiting for the week! She came on Friday and on Saturday we went to Walnut Creek with her friend Caitlin to hike. We took Chaos and Baxter the Basset Hound. The weather was beautiful - 60 degrees and sunny! We also went to Petsmart before hiking and took the hoond heads. Chaos was really interested in the fish. Baxter was most concerned with the meaty bones. Baxter's bright red harness that he's wearing in the pictures was what we finally purchased at the store.

Baxter likes to sniff EVERYTHING on the trail. Then he runs as fast as possible to catch up. You wouldn't think those short little legs could actually move that fast...

I found a really great tennis ball that was left in the river. It took me quite a long time to fish it out of the water but I finally got it. Then of course I dropped it when I was trying to take a picture of the dogs and I lost it. Wonderful.

The Happy Tail-Waggin Chaos Boy jumped in to every bit of water he could find. He was just having the time of his life, prancing around, leading us on the trail, stopping to play with Baxter and sniff...

There's this beautiful old chimney that's just standing in the middle of the woods. Weird. We wanted to take a picture of Baxter standing in it but we had to prop him up on a rock since he's such a short lil guy.

If you look really carefully you'll notice that the dog Kathryn is walking is neither K K nor Baxter. That's a dog named Cooper. Cooper was crazy. Cooper escaped from his owner and we used K K to help lure Cooper to us. Then we returned the Runaway Hoond Head to his owner. Good Lil K K! He's a HERO!!!