Blanche & Lucy go Hiking with Tyler

When Tyler visited last week we decided to take a hike with Blanche and Lucy. We took the Ralston Creek Trail that starts not too far from our house.

The trail winds through various neighborhoods for several miles along the Ralston Creek. (you can see the trail to the left of the creek here)

Since we spend the winters in AZ where grass is very rare - Blanche and Lucy take every opportunity to roll around in the cool grass along the hike.

For some of the walk, now & then,  the girls rode in the carriage because Blanche is beginning to have hip issues - and Lucy just loves the ride.

Tyler used my little compact camera to shoot along the hike and took photos of flowers and the creek.

She's becoming a great little shooter if I do say so myself.

There were about 10 playgrounds/parks along the route of this trail for several miles. So our goal was to stop at 5 of them to rest along the route.

This playground had 'moving' walkways that Tyler loved.

This playground as well as the above 2 & following 2 were the 5 we found along our route.

Tyler discovered that each playground was just a little bit different from the others - enough to make it interesting to her.

This playground had lots of climbing objects.

The last park were we ended up was at the APEX center in the previous post and that made about 5miles of hiking for Tyler, Blanche, Lucy & I.

After that great hike we came home to a healthy lunch & nap.