Sophie and Finnegan's Excellent Adventure

My mom and dad have been writing all the entries on our blog, but this one belong to ME! I had the most excellent adventure with my new friend, Sophie, and her mom. Her mom is Susan Russell and she and my mom have been friends for a very long time. We visited with Susan and Sophie in Pittsfield, MA in the Berkshire Mountains. They took us to their favorite park and we got to walk for a looong time - and we didn't have to wear our leashes. We could run and play in the brush and our parents didn't mind as long as we appeared sometimes to let them know we were ok. We also had to come when we were called. Here's a picture of Sophie and me walking on the path with my dad.

We didn't always stay with the adults. Usually we just ran along together and darted right and left. It was SO MUCH FUN!!!

Our parents made us sit for a picture together. I hate sitting still... Isn't Sophie pretty?

Here are Susan and my mom. We were just walking along.

Sometimes Sophie would show me her favorite places and sometimes I would lose her in the tall grass. But, we always found each other again.

Susan and my dad found some wild blackberries along the path and the grown-ups all ate some, but they wouldn't let us have any. They said they weren't good for us. I don't believe it.

Then we met Lacy. She's an English Setter and BOY, can she run! I couldn't catch her but I really tried hard. We ran and ran and ran. I guess Sophie did that before because she didn't run with us.

There were lots of other dogs on the trail. Here's the best part: All of their people carry bags full of cookies and everyone gave us cookies. That's Lacy's mom giving me one. Maybe she gave me more like six... It was wonderful! There were so many dogs. We all played. We all ate lots of cookies. We all got really dirty.

Mom had to give me a bath. Then we went to Sophie's house for dinner and we played some more. I couldn't wait to go to bed when we got home. It took me about a minute to go to dreamland.

I'm sure gonna miss Sophie...Love, Finn