This is a popular hiking mountain with a cool view at top, as I've been told. I have not hiked this one yet, I'd have to make sure there weren't any snakes first!
Taylor was dog sitting for our friends for ten days and it just happened to be over the holiday, darn. We were at home for the first year in years and come to find out that fireworks are illegal in Renton! I know, I've never heard of that before either. This daytrip was on the fifth of July, Todd wanted to fish and I wanted to hike. So he fished with Taylor and I hiked with the dog, Sydney and Bryant.
Sydney wanted to pose in front of the little waterfall, so cute!
There is the dog in the above photo. Just after taking this photo we were walking back along the path, no one was around so I let Bryant lead the dog on the leash. Well, a man dressed all in black came up behind us, the dog went into protection mode, the dog pulled away from Bryant and he dropped the leash, and the dog bit the man on the leg! Really! I was like what? He was like, "He just bit me!, shocked! I about died for sure! I finally got ahold of the leash and held him tight up against my leg, made sure the guy was okay and started walking back to the truck. The man came up behind me again and asked if the dog was up on his shots as he was on holiday from Israel and had a wife and kids to worry about. He followed me to the truck where I wrote down all my info and gave me his email so we could send him a copy of the shot record. It broke the skin a bit but wasn't bleeding, and he will have a bruise, but he was okay. He never left the park to seek medical help and was still there three hours later when we left. I hope he doesn't sue me! Todd isn't worried and said, he was from Israel and has to be tough!
After fishing we called up our good friend and his boys to hike with us and they are pretty spontaneous like us and came over. We hiked a part of Cougar Mtn. and this view is looking towards our house. That clearing in the center is about where our house is, pretty cool!
And finally this was the extent of our fourth of July festivities! It rained, but we still BBQ'd hamburgers and the kids threw pop its on the wet ground!
My old Apple got whacked by Bryant, he threw something at the screen and this is what happened! It will be okay, I said. Todd said it would only spread until you couldn't see anything at all, darn! So last weekend we were in Portland for Nana's birthday, sorry to my friends-we will come visit in August, I promise! Todd and I went out and came back with this lovely little thing! I got to watch Germany score their third goal to go on and win third place in the World Cup while Todd campared the laptops that I had chosen and he had approved... The Apple is backwards from all other pc's and now I have to re-learn how it all works! 
