nature walk~ nice stroll or death trap? you decide.

So, my dad come up to visit this weekend. He got here Sunday morning and we went to Art on the Rocks/The Outback. Kind of a thing we do each year. Anyways, after that we grilled some brats and drank some beer, it was soo cotton-pickin hot that we stayed in the house for most of the day. When it finally began to cool down, my dad and I went for a walk with Perry. We just took a walk up the road by our house to Silver Creek (not even a mile away). So, we got to the creek and just kept walking up the hill (a paved and used road). THEN! Up to the left of us, we heard a rustling in the woods, less than 200 hundred feet away. I first thought it was just a deer coming through. My dad says "uh-oh, it's a bear! Look up in the tree, there's the cub. We'd better turn around." He was pretty calm as he said this so I wasn't totally alarmed with fear yet.
We had already turned around and took a few steps when the mother bear sounded like she was coming closer~ rustling through the trees. We had the puppy with us and I can't believe he didn't get a whiff of what was coming at us- he had no clue. Well, I turned around a few times to see if she came out of the woods charging. But luckily, she didn't. We made it home safe.

That's it, that's the story. Not as good an ending as you would think, right? But, I did a good job of building the suspense, don't ya think?