We really needed to get out of the city this weekend, so we took Ruthie and went to an equestrian center and a state park. Ruthie loved the horses! When we got home I brought out her little horsies and she ran around our apartment "neighing" (we taught her how to neigh, although it sounds more like a helicopter). Afterward, we went fishing at a state park south of Dallas. We figured Ruthie needed to get used to the water and being outdoors, so we let her wade in the lake. Eventually she just sat down and played with the rocks underneath her. She was pretty muddy, wet and dirty after that! When we began to leave she kept signing "please" to us, so we figured she wanted to go back to the water. Finally we made her say goodbye to the water by waving...she then understood it was really time to leave :)