We spent the holiday weekend in Pennsylvania with Andrew's family this year. Savage went along with us, as we are still hoping he becomes a little bit more accepting of Andrew's family. I think we made a little bit of progress, but not much. We'll keep working on it though!
We did a little bit of shopping on Black Friday, but not until later in the day, and we only went out for a few hours. We went on a nice long hike with Savage when we got back, which he definitely needed! We went to a place in the Allegheny National Forest, called Heart's Content. We chose a 5 mile path, and it took us about 1.5 hours. Parts of the Allegheny National Forest are open to backpackers and campers, and we passed a few people on the trail. We did encounter two loose dogs, who's owners were WAY behind them, and did not have a good recall. Savage doesn't like dogs/people coming up to him, so it was pretty tense for a few minutes until the loose dog's owners caught up to them and grabbed their collars. These people didn't even have leashes for their dogs, which was incredibly frustrating. Having your dog off-leash and able to explore is a great idea, but owners have to remember that not all dogs are friendly and want to interact. At least keeping their dogs where they could see them would have prevented a stressful situation for us on Friday.
I think we were all a little tired after hiking in the cold!
Saturday afternoon we headed to Jake's Rocks, also part of the Allegheny National Forest. We found a few paved paths to walk on, but there were not a lot of actual hiking trails for us to explore. We ended up driving over to Rimrock to see if we could find a longer path to hike on.
After we made it down a LOT of stairs, it started raining pretty hard, so we had to turn around and head right back up the 500 million stairs we had just gone down. Maybe next time we visit PA we'll have better luck with hiking at Rimrock!
When we got back on Sunday afternoon, we celebrated my Grandma's birthday! My dad made beer-battered fish and homemade french fries, and we also had cheesecake. It was a lot of food to consume after Thanksgiving! But it was nice to spend some time with my family after being away for the holiday.
Now that both Halloween and Thanksgiving are over, I am finally getting excited for Christmas! I started to listening to a new Christmas CD at work today; Dashing Through the Snow, Solo Piano by Michael John Hall. I love piano music and this one is perfect for the work day - Christmas-y but still calming and makes perfect background noise. I got my CD while I was at Equine Affair, but I found it on Amazon if you'd like to give it a try! Obviously, I bought this because there is a horse on the front cover, but it did turn out to be a good purchase!
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