Park

Yesterday morning, Erin and I decided to take a walk over to the park in Arlington Heights with Maddie. It was a partly cloudy day, but not much breeze and the air felt warm. We grabbed Maddie's ball and headed out. The walk was really nice, and we admired the houses as we walked by. (we have really fallen in love with a few of the houses in that area of Arlington Heights)
When we got to the park, Maddie met another Lab (yellow) that was a little over a year old and wanted to play play play! We let the two run around a bit, but they were both getting a little too worked up with one another. That's the drawback with two puppy's playing! The older dogs know when to cool it down!
We walked over to a corner of the park (it's really surprising how under utilized it was to me, the parks in Chicago always have a good number of people in them, especially on a day like that - I suppose people have yards, so why would they use a park...) Pulled out the ball and started tossing it back and forth between the two of us. It's become a pretty fun game with Maddie... Erin and I will stand about 30 yards away from each other and toss the ball, while Maddie (The Monkey in the Middle) will run back and forth after the ball.

Maddie ended up getting tired and laid down, I was able to capture a good photo of her though. It has immediately become one of our favorites.