scary experience

Yesterday me n' the girls went to Steve's parents house for the afternoon. The have a trail behind there house that goes between the rows of houses the entire length of the street. all of the houses have gates in there back yard that open up to the trail. We frequently walk up it since it is beautiful this time of year (and there are free lemons and oranges to be had. So I yesterday I walked up it with my 2 girls. We turned aroud to go back to the house but there was a very large dog in the trail barking very agressively at us. It was running around in circles and barking/growling as if to say "come any closer and I'm going to get you". I would have been scared if it was just me, but I was even more scared with my 2 tiny girls. I had no idea what to do. I was going to see if I could get in one of the gates leading to someone elses' backyard, but they were all locked and the walls/fences were too tall to get my girls over. We were trapped. There was nothing else to do but just stay where we were (about 2 houses distance away) and wait for the dog to go back leave (the exit to the street was on the other side of the dog as well). I waited about 3 minutes and then to my surprise the very large dog leaped over about an 8 foot wall apparently back to it's own backyard. So, I did my best to scare Kiera into being extremely quiet and we tiptoed down the trail to safety. Thankfully, Lydia was quiet too. I don't think I'll be walking down that trail anymore!