Walking the Brooklyn Bridge

Saturday May 22, 2010
Hubby has walked across the Brooklyn Bridge a few times with work. He thought it would be a great experience for our Seeing Eye puppies and a fun time for the people too so we arranged a club trip. Harley came along too!

We started off in Brooklyn -- there were a lot more people walking on the bridge than I had thought there would be. I've never walked on the Brooklyn Bridge before so it was a surprise to me to find "photo op" spots on the bridge along with little info markers.

The bike riders on the bridge made me nervous -- they had their own lane but there were times when the pedestrian lane was so crowded that we had to move into the bike lane to get around.

Of course we had to stop for club photos. All the puppies did well with the crowds and the traffic noise.

We found a little park on the Manhattan side where we sat on benches and ate lunch. It was cooler in the shade which was good because the day was definitely getting warm.

The walk back over to Brooklyn was even more crowded. And to make it worse, Harley realized we were walking on a wooden plank walkway and I guess he realized that he could see through the walkway to the water below us -- the walk back was scary for him and he cowered the whole way back. Once we got on the concrete walkway on the other side, he perked up -- it was amazing to see the change in his posture. We also learned that he did not like subway gratings at all!

It was definitely a fun day. It would have been more fun if Quail hadn't had diarrhea on the bridge going and coming back but oh well -- she still had fun!