Learning to Swim

10 August 2008 by admin.

Mom took us to the lake today. My sisters knew where we were going, and Halo was might excited. Belle was excited too, but she is a little more laid back than Halo.

 

Mom took us to the lake today.  My sisters knew where we were going, and Halo was mighty excited. Belle was excited too, but she is a little more laid back than Halo.  The lake we went to was Lake Travis just outside of Austin, TX. It is one of the big lakes that make up the Highland Lakes in Central Texas.  Mom was kinda sad though as she said the lake was way down because of the drought.  It still looked like allot of water to me.  I was a little scared at first, but my sisters went right in.  I figured if they weren’t afraid I wasn’t going to be either.  Here is a picture of me getting my feet wet.

And here is a picture of my sisters after they went out and got the bumper.  They always do stuff together.

Belle and Halo are really good swimmers, but I think Halo is a little better.  Mom wants me to swim like they do.  She says they are fish.  Anyway, I played in the shallow for a while, but then I just had to go for it.  I wasn’t sure if I could swim or not, but mom told me I would just know what to do.  She has been pretty honest so far, so here goes….

Wow, she was right.  I can swim!!! Of course, it was still kind of scary, and as soon as I was swimming I thought I should head back to shore.  When my feet touched the ground again I started splashing allot.

It sure felt good to be on stable ground again. 

 

We didn’t swim the whole time we were at the lake.  We did allot of horsing around and playing too.

 

I also tried to get Belle to pretty please play with me, but she really wanted to go after the bumper.

Then Halo said she was going to do a pose for the cover of Gundog Magazine.  Halo is already a cover girl (mom calls her a super model).  She is on the cover of the Whole Foods Holistic Dry Dog Food.  So now she is always posing like a model. 

We had fun though and were all really tired by the time it was time to go home.  In fact, when we got home we all piled on the sofa and took a long nap.  I sure will remember my first swim.  Mom says just wait until we go to the beach as that is really big water.  I can’t imagine any more water than the lake, but maybe.

 

I better get back to my nap now as I need to be really rested for my next big adventure.

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