Jumping Dogs!

Last night, Scott saw that the local Scheels was having a Family Fun weekend with Dog Jumping.  I remember people talking about this event last summer, so we decided to check it out after church.  It was raining after church, but we still headed to Scheels with the hope that it wouldn't be raining there - the weather is crazy here, so that scenario is very possible.

When we got there, we were excited to see there were already dogs jumping off the dock into the water.  The goal is for the dogs to see how far they can jump into the pool.  The boys weren't sure of what to think when we got there, so they stayed back.

 The uncertainty only lasted one jump, then Karsten was right next to the pool to get a closer look, and maybe get sprayed with some water.

The dogs (and their trainers) were pretty impressive.  Some of them jumped as far as 23 feet, but most were in the 8-13 range.

Right after this photo was taken, the guy next to Karsten took his little guy right up to kneel on the side of the pool and completely blocked Karsten's view.  So I picked him up so he could see the next dog that the announcer said would jump far.  Let's just say, the dog did jump far and made a great big splash - both Karsten and I got very wet.  Good thing there's no pics of that!

Liam enjoyed watching as long as someone could hold him so he could see above the sides of the pool.

They had a brief intermission, so we went inside Scheels to walk around.  Such an impressive store, there's a million things to look at!

They have cool photo-ops like this all over the store.

Soon, we headed back outside to catch the next group of dogs. This group had a lot of big jumpers in it that really made it far!

I'd say this was a big success - look at that smile!