Day 12

We decided to make today a dog day.  We would have gone to Zion, except that national parks don't like dogs.

There are two dog parks in St. George.  We decided to go to the bigger one.  We looked it up on Google and found a back way from the trailer park to the dog park.  The route was a good choice.  It wound around the red rock to the north of St. George.

As we got near the dog park we saw a trailhead just off the road.  We stopped there and let the dog out.  She had to be on a leash, but there was plenty of lizards to keep her attention.  We climbed the rocks near the trailhead and walked around on top for quite awhile.  There were people down below using ropes to rock climb up the steep faces.  There was even one guy taking his little rug rat climbing up some pretty steep rocks.

After the trailhead we went to the dog park.  It was a bust.  It was a relatively small fenced area.  Lucy wouldn't do any retrieves.  I think she thought it was too hot.

After that we went to one of the old style hamburger joints we saw yesterday.  It's been there since 1960.  The burgers were really good.  I ordered a shake.  When I got it it was more a blizzard than a shake.  I had to eat it with a spoon, not a straw.  It was so big I couldn't eat all of it.

After that it was more dog stuff.  We went to a park by the Virgin river.  We would have let the dog swim, but the water seemed very dirty.  After a short walk we got back in the car and went up the road to a visitor center.  The center was in an expo center.  That's when we found out that the Senior Games was going on.  We hung around there for awhile looking at the exhibits.  They had a sporting clays, trap, and skeet competition, but it was over today.

There was another trailhead near the visitor center.  We stopped and took the dog for a walk along the river.  Again the water was too dirty for her to swim.  I only got about 1/2 mile out before my ankle started hurting so much that I couldn't put much weight on it.  So we turned around.

As the final thing we finally found a PetSmart.  We stopped and took Lucy in.  Of course we bought her a treat.

Then it was home for the rest of the evening.