This weekend we went back to the Turnbull Wildlife Refuge to do another hike! We brought Dixie too!  Yayyy!  It is warmer now so she can come on long hikes.

The snow is almost all melted so now there is a lot of water in lots of places. The big pond behind us is where the trail is. We had to forge through or go around a lot of water!  Mom has waterproof boots and I am a Tiger I do not mind getting my paws wet.

Dixie likes to look for flowers.  It is spring but there are not a lot of flowers yet. What we did see is a lot of animal scat!  We came home and looked online to see what kind of animals are in the area. Based on our research: deer or elk or moose, coyotes, and raccoons! Also we saw a chipmunk!  And ducks!  And a bluebird!

Last week at work there was lunch from a restaurant but mom FORGOT to get me and all that was left when she came back to the office were some cookies.

OMG the best thing happened at work Marc was there for a few days! I have not seen Marc in a year or two. He is super smart and funny and also super handsome. Mom found out that his name is actually Marcel ! She probably knew that but FORGOT because she seems to FORGET things a lot these days.

We  had a locksmith come to our house to re-key our locks!  His name was Steve he was really nice and super handsome but not quite as handsome as me. 

This weekend we did some errands and then we had lunch at a restaurant I LOVE restaurants!  Mom said it was the best Thai food she has had so far in Spokane.

When we got home we went for a walk in the woods. The snow is all gone!  Everything looks so different now.  It will be harder to see animal tracks but I will keep looking.

Here is the first flower of Spring!

We went back to 49 Degrees North today!  Yayyy!  On one run mom took a wrong turn and ended up in the terrain park!  She went over a bunch of jumps but when she got to the really big one she went around it and ended up careening through really deep powder and did a face plant. Ha ha ha ha!  That was hilarious.  She did not let me take a picture of that.

Behind me is Chair 6 which we found out later is one of the fastest chairs on the mountain it really whips around to load and unload and basically tossed mom off at the top of Angel Peak.  Now we call it Evil Chair 6.

It really started raining in the afternoon you can see here how the camera is making foggy spots. Mom says we have enough photos like this anyway.

At the end of the day after we were were thoroughly soggy we went into the lodge for hot chocolate yayyyyy! The satchel is not waterproof and the phone\camera was getting wet.  I am a Tiger I do not mind getting wet. The hot chocolate did not have marshmallows or whipped cream but it was still delicious. When we asked if there was whipped cream the lady in the cafe said that the yurt at the summit had whipped cream for the hot chocolate so I thought we could go back up there but mom said No.                     

Today we did errands and went to an art show. We met Leslie who is totally gorgeous and makes hats from reclaimed materials. They were awesome hats!

Then we went to a train show yayyy!  They had model trains you could watch!  It was great!  I got in free but mom had to pay six dollars. It was totally worth it.

Mostly they were selling all kinds of model train stuff. We looked and looked but did not see anything with tigers. What is up with that?

Also there was an organization there telling about about how to be safe around trains and they let me have this cool coloring book!  It is fun and also educational.

OMG we had the BEST day EVER snowboarding today!  We went to 49 Degrees North and it was a super beautiful day with great views of the mountains.

Conditions were really good and they had lots of fun chutes with lots of trees and we even saw a squirrel carrying a pine cone!  

Here I am riding in the satchel!  It was an awesome day !!

At the end of the day we went into the Alpine Shop and found a pin for me !!!!

Yesterday when we were leaving for work we discovered that the car had a flat tire!  It was not a little bit flat it was completely flat!  Here is the flat tire in the back of the car. Just next to my right ear is the screw that punctured the tire.

Mom got out the spare tire that she says is called a donut and got the flat tire off and the donut put on the car. She FORGOT to take pictures while we changed the tire!  I suggested that we take the flat tire out of the car, jack up the car, take the donut off, put the flat tire back on the car, remove the jack, put the tools back in the car and start all over and take pictures.  Mom said No.

Then we drove real slowly to the Subaru store so they could fix the tire. They had all kinds of refreshments while you wait like POPCORN from a cool popping machine.

We had to wait a long time because of the way the tire was damaged it could not be repaired so we needed to get all new tires. So we got to watch television while we waited! Yayyy!  It was a weird show. It was a lady celebrity who I don’t know who she was and she had guests on her show I don’t know who they were and they kept talking about each other and how good looking they are and a party they went to and I kept waiting for them to do something interesting like bring out a tiger or a moose and they never did. I don’t understand what the show was about. mom say that is why we don’t have television at home. But if we had television at home and we watched all the time we would probably know who all those celebrity people were. Here is a photo of everyone in the waiting area. The chairs were nice and comfy!