A new dog park?

yeah not so much...

I heard a couple of weeks ago that there was a new dog park opening up in Sammamish (the town up the hill from us) and figured we should go check it out. So on Monday with the day off, Jeremiah, Hank & I ventured up to the ever curious Sammamish Plateau to lovely Beaver Lake Park. So, I googled the park before we left and it looked pretty easy to get to. So, we drove up the hill, found a Starbucks, and then off to the dog park...

...we found the Beaver Lake Lodge, and pulled into the parking lot. We drove around the lot to see if we could find the dog park within view, and then walk up. Nope, no dog park in view, but let's get out and walk. So we walked down to the lake, and saw a bunch of guys fishing. We noticed that the lake is HUGE and thought maybe we just need to drive around the corner...we drove, for about 45 minutes AROUND the lake. Finally we figured we must have missed it, and my directions that I had seen made it seem so EASY to find, they didn't even need to be specific. Never has a neighborhood been so SNOBBY!

So, we go back by the lodge, we keep going, and it seems the park continues past the way when we entered, we decided to take the first turn back towards the main road to home, and saw ANOTHER entrance to the park. We found baseball fields, and some people with dogs in the parking lot, and a VERY FULL PARKING LOT. And then we finally found the damn park. It was SO NOT WORTH IT! Ridiculous! Its a big dog run, with a little trail behind it. Now granted, if I lived right around the corner from this park, it would be a very handy place to take Hank and run off some energy. I noticed some dads had their dog in the "park" and were watching the baseball games near by. Hank liked it, but got bored pretty quick. We didn't even think to bring his ball and chuck it with since we were so convinced that we would never find the place. So, he ran around and was happy, and we continue to dislike Sammamish...