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Today was a special treat for Sascha.\u00a0 Rich decided to take her over to Moraine State Park, which is right next to the subdivision and let her pull the scooter.\u00a0 The trails are pretty nice, but there are a lot of hills.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rick decided to ride his bike with them.\u00a0 Following behind would keep him out of the way and still be able to enjoy the ride.\u00a0 This meant taking two vehicles, but it turns out the scooter doesn’t fit in the Honda anyway.\u00a0 Time to get that bike rack for the back of the car.<\/p>\n
I thought I’d pack up my stuff and read while everyone was on the trail.\u00a0 That way someone could drive to the hospital, if needed.\u00a0 I got my blanket, book, chair, and cup of coffee.<\/p>\n
We drove over to Opossum Run at the end of the park.\u00a0 There’s a nice loop around the end that’s about 2 1\/2 miles around.\u00a0 It goes through woods, prairie, and by Lake Defiance.\u00a0 As I said, there are some hills to the trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We parked and got the bike and scooter out.\u00a0 Everyone suited up for the ride.\u00a0 I walked Sascha around as they prepared.\u00a0 She got very excited to be out in the woods.\u00a0 I hooked her to the lead and away everyone went.\u00a0 Turns out the trail was very sloppy and wet.\u00a0 The downhills are paved to prevent erosion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sloppy trail meant that the scooter got bogged down.\u00a0 Rich had walk it through these stretches, but Sascha kept wanting to pull.\u00a0 It’s hard to control her and the scooter at the same time.\u00a0 But going downhill on the paved, you kind of fly.\u00a0 On the first downhill, Sascha decided to dash in front of the scooter and might have gotten run over.\u00a0 She appeared to be walking fine, but she definitely learned to stay out of the way after that.<\/p>\n
At about halfway through the trail, the guys decided to stop for a break.\u00a0 Rick had a water bottle on his bike and they were able to squeeze water into Sascha’s mouth.\u00a0 She has done that before.\u00a0 Probably how she learned to drink Mountain Dew from one of the volunteers are the rescue!\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a rest, they continued on the trail.\u00a0 Sascha kept stopping to greet all of the other hikers she meet on the trail.\u00a0 That one is way too social for a good scooter ride.\u00a0 I don’t why she thinks everyone in the world has to pet her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the 2 mile mark, they stopped for another rest.\u00a0 A nearby ditch had ice on it, but Sascha broke through it and stood with her feet in the freezing water.\u00a0 This is how Husky normally cool off.\u00a0 They stand in water.\u00a0 We normally have a pool for her to stand in, but she prefers to do a full body\u00a0roll in the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At this point, Sascha was starting to be tired.\u00a0 She managed to continue her run back to the car.\u00a0 Rick rolled up first and announced that they were coming in.\u00a0 I got ready to grab Sascha when she and Rich arrived in the parking lot.<\/p>\n
They were all so dirty when they got back!\u00a0 The back of Rich’s jeans were solid mud from the knees down.\u00a0 Sascha’s entire underbelly was a thick layer of mud.\u00a0 We loaded up bike, scooter, and muddy dog into the cars and headed home.<\/p>\n
Once we got back, we hosed down everything, including the back of Rich.\u00a0 Sascha wasn’t too happen being sprayed down, but it did remove a lot of loose dirt.\u00a0 She would get a full bath later.\u00a0 I dried her off some and put her in the house.\u00a0 She ran around like a nut, or someone on caffeine.\u00a0 She was ready to go again!\u00a0<\/p>\n
It didn’t take long before she got tired and a nap soon overtook her.\u00a0 She was stretched out in that ray of death on the living room sleeping away.<\/p>\n
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