This weekend was the famous Spokane Bloomsday 12K (7.46 miles) race! Elite runners  and wheelchair racers from the US and even other countries come to Spokane for this.  We volunteered to help at one of the water aid stations !!  Here we are setting up.

The barrels of water are filled with a fire hose !!  OMG !  There are about 50,000 people in the race. That is a lot of people and they are almost all thirsty.

Here we are passing water to the runners!  We filled about a zillion cups of water.

We had to work hard to keep the table filled for these nuns. Almost everyone wanted to get water from them.  They were really nice and very beautiful too!

There was an awesome band playing near us.  It was a great day!!

This weekend we went hiking again!  This is where you drop off the fee to visit Turnbull Wildlife Refuge.  It is only 3 dollars!  We usually give more and one time we put a hundred dollar bill in the envelope!   I drew a Tiger picture on the envelope this time.

We saw lots of wildflowers like Arrowleaf Balsamroot on the left which was used for food and medicine by the Native Americans. It is part of the sunflower family.

When we stopped for lunch we sat on a log and saw this beautiful feather ! 

Then that evening OMG !!! we went Downtown to see a PINK FLOYD LASER SHOW !!

Here I am with Margo my good friend who lets me help drive the car. It is a beautiful theater with all kinds of cool stuff but I was so excited to see the LASER SHOW!!

OMG the LASER SHOW was so awesome with all my favorite PINK FLOYD music and LASERS !! It was hard to get good pictures in the dark with all the LASERS going on. 

One day last week mom came home with a small box for me.  OMG!!!!  She got me new business cards !!!  Usually we make our own but Mom says this is much easier.

We had lunch with our friend Alan !   I LOVE restaurants!  Alan had all kinds of great stories and told us all about the geology of the area.  Best of all he had a cheezburger for lunch!   Alan is super nice and handsome but not quite as handsome as me.

We went hiking today it was a super sunny day!  Here are some of the animals we saw: Ground squirrels. Swans! A fox – maybe, it might have been a coyote. Deer!  A coyote – for sure, it was right on the trail in front of us! Lots of birds.

I asked mom to get a picture of me with these pine cones.

This weekend we did a whole bunch of errands, like going back to Clara’s art studio.

We went on lots of walks!!  Here we saw a tree that some animal gnawed at.  Maybe it was a Tiger!

We walked to a different part of the neighborhood where there was this awesome tree house!  OMG it is perfect for a small tiger!  We should get one like this in our yard !!

Also just because it is Spring now does not mean the snow has stopped.

This weekend we got lots of chores and errands done. As a reward we got lunch at our favorite Thai restaurant!     Sometimes the chefs make flames when they are cooking but it is hard to get a picture of that.  At least that’s what Mom says. She also missed most of  my face in this photo.

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Later we went for a walk in the woods near our house.  Here we are in a field of purple wildflowers.  I have my Gonzaga bandana and Turnbull pin and Mom is wearing the Western Bluebird pin we also got at Turnbull last week.  

Then we went hiking on Sunday!    We saw a coyote!!  and a moose!!

We had lunch by this lake.  A toasted peanut butter sandwich.

Over the weekend we went back to Turnbull both days for more hiking!

The gift shop was open!  We got a couple of pins to put on our bandanas!  This is me with Marianne who is super beautiful and was super nice she chatted with us even though she was trying to put away all the merchandise for the gift shop.

Mom made us all Gonzaga bandanas!!!! Here I am the next day on another hike with my new bandana and my Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge pin !!!

We saw moose both days !!!!  OMG!!!!  There is a moose a little above my right ear and to the right the moose is standing to the right of a tree! We added an arrow to help.

Also this weekend we met Clara who is an art restorer!  She is going to repair some paintings that got damaged in the move.  Clara is gorgeous and charming and has the coolest studio ever!  It would be fun to spend the day there and make paw paintings.

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.