More Park Walking

Hey, this is Baby! I am the one who is a little more hyper than Molly. I used to bounce off the walls, but I am calmer now that I am six years old. I promise never again to eat a sofa, a bed, or chew up a very nice antique desk. Really, I won't. I am a big girl now and big girls don't eat furniture.

Molly is doing a bit better today. Mom gives Molly pills and Molly gets better. It's a good thing.

So, we went back to the same park and met mom's friend and his little boy. We like little boys, Molly and I do! We really do. They hug and play with us and they smell like food. Sometimes we can find food on them! Wooo!! But this little boy seemed a little nervous so we gave him lots of time to get used to us. Mom said we were Good Girls for not climbing all over him. Why bother? He had on clean clothes.

We walked and walked. Mom gave us water, which was good. We went down to the riverbed again and walked in the water on the stones. I like that - I like to pad around in swampy water, too. Molly drank out of the river, but I didn't. Molly does strange things sometimes. Not me. I am a Good Girl. Right, mom? I am older now and a Good Girl. Well, most of the time. Usually.

We didn't see any wildlife other than a bunch of noisy teenagers. No food on them. Boring. We saw birds, but birds are boring too. Chase them, and then they fly away. Boring.

We walked on some grass to get to a playground. Molly kept digging holes and sticking her whole face in them. Mom thought maybe rabbits? Not sure, but Molly sure did look silly! Mom says that beagles will go after rabbits any way possible - over things, under them, through them, around them. We are stubborn that way. If we smell something we need, we go for it. Do not get in the way!

Mom found some monkey bars and wanted to play on them, but once her weight was on her shoulders, her shoulders said oh, no way, so mom had to get down. She wasn't happy. I bet we have to keep going back until mom can do it. She is kind of beagle-like some times.

The little boy played in the playground for a while, then decided he was done and wanted to go home. We knew we were going for ice cream next, but we didn't tell him. It was a secret. We walked back out of the park without telling him, but I have to nudge Molly once or twice because she was going to tell.

We went to the ice cream place and oh boy, was it crowded! Mom was afraid that we wouldn't be allowed to stand in line, even though it was outside, but once we got in line Molly did her suck up routine and everyone loved her. Half the people in line knew her name within 5 minutes. How does she do that?

Mom got us our own ice cream dishes :-). We had vanilla. Mom had chocolate. The guys had strawberry. First we ate all ours.Then we finished mom's. Then mom's frend's. Then his son's. Yummy!!!

By that time we were tired, but we didn't want to admit it. Mom brought us home, and we hit the couch. We haven't moved yet. It has been about 2 hours, but we are breathing. I dictated this entry to mom because I don't want to get up and type it myself.

I had to use telepathy. Anything else would be way too much work.

Mom is going out tomorrow morning.

Walking!