01-05-13

We quickly decided that it was too cold to walk today.  But we gave it a go in St Helens, OR.  When we happened upon this statue of Seaman, the pet of Meriwether Lewis of Lewis & Clark, we burst out laughing.  When Anastasia was in elementary school one day, Anastasia came home and exclaimed out of the blue that “Lewis and Clark didn’t eat Seaman!”.  We had no idea how to respond to that one, until we found out that Seaman was a dog.

Sometimes history can be interesting.  Seaman was bit by a beaver and had to have surgery on his leg.  Seaman was also stolen by Indians.  The group ate 263 dogs while traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail, but Seaman was indeed spared.