Family Vacation Day 17

Today I decided to take Mom and Daisy for a hike at Placerita Canyon. We do currently have an offshore flow, but it wasn't supposed to get into the mid 90's before 3 pm. So we left fairly early and arrived at Placerita Canyon a little past 11 am. Placerita Canyon is a big hiking canyon just about 15min. by car from our house. There are several different hiking trails available. I really didn't want to hike up any of the trails on the south facing hill slope, and so I chose the 'Waterfall Trail'. This trail is a little over 3 miles long and pretty much follows a creek. Most of the trail has lots of mature trees, is just fun to hike and climbs very moderately higher and higher. You have to cross the creek several times and with the water levels being that low, it's no problem at all. The most surprising thing was that Daisy just walked through the creek without any issues...and that was one of the things that used to freak her out when she was younger. We made it up about 2/3 of the trail before we took a break.

During the break 2 rangers came down the trail and checked if Daisy was on the leash...and if course she was, since I never go hiking with her off leash. Mom wasn't feeling so hot, as she was having slight issues with her circulatory system and so we opted to turn around

and slowly hike back to the car. We did hike about 2 miles in one direction.

We were hiking slowly back and Mom started to feel better. Not sure if it was the elevation or the heat, but I was happy that she felt better again. While taking another break at the halfway point to the car I noticed that Daisy favored one of her hind legs. I looked at it but couldn't find anything wrong with it and it didn't seem to bother her when she was walking. Most likely she just stepped wrong. On the way back we encountered 5 or 6 very excited dogs and Daisy wasn't a happy camper, since she doesn't do too well with overexcited dogs. By 1.30 pm we had made it back to the car and headed back home. When I checked my phone I realized that my dad had called and so we called him back via Skype. He mostly wanted to know how we were doing. And he brought up certain things about the upcoming relocation. I realized that everyone has lots of questions about relocating Daisy. I explained how that works in general, didn't go into every single detail. I also addressed several additional questions he brought up. That guy just likes to worry about things that are in my opinion no problem at all. Furthermore it occurred to me that those questions only come up when relocating a dog, they would never ever come up if I were to relocate an adopted kid. From where I am standing, that's just bizarre!!

After that Mom and relaxed for a little over an hour. Then we had a quite late lunch. We had the left overs from the Broccoli Cream Soup. After that we just hung out and chatted a little. I then checked on Daisy's hind leg again, and she is perfectly fine. For dinner Kenny picked up Pizza. We had a Bell Pepper, Olive & Mushroom Pizza for Mom, and a Pizza with Pepperoni & Sausage for Kenny and I. Very yummy!!

All in all a great day and mom loved the hike at Placerita Canyon.