Thursday, July 30, 2009

St Paul, MN

Retail store selling stone sculptures and grave monuments named “Birdbath and Beyond”

This was the beginning of Boots’ 3-day birthday celebration. What with traveling and searches for the best restaurant we have expanded our B-Day celebrations to 3 days. Any excuse for a good meal. We took Karma to the Mississippi river. Since this is the head waters it is little more than a creek.

Karma, as is her usual, walked as far out as she could before swimming to the ball. There was no current to speak of. We expected it to be no more than 6 feet in the center. There was a paddle boat ride on the river and through the lock to the upper shores. The surrounding off-leash dog park was very woodsy and well populated by dogs of all sizes and breeds. We did see more black dogs that we had experienced in other parks in our travels. Black dogs are marked as being “scary” and are very hard to adopt out from the various shelters. I guess Minneapolis / St Paul haven’t heard that yet. That goodness!