You know how some weekends just seem to never end? Yeah, we had one of those this last Memorial day weekend!! I mean it wasnt ALL bad, just mostly bad. LOL.
I had entered the WY shows Saturday thru Monday (had to work Friday). The Saturday show is up in Casper, which is about 5.5 hours from home for us. Onofrio gave Pointers an 8 am ring time (which really sucked since I had the only 3 and staying for Groups would mean a LONNNNG day with a LONNNNGGG drive home!!) We woke up at 1 am to get ready to leave and I was in screaming pain, so decided against even getting out of bed. It ended up being a pretty decent day, we went out for breakfast, it rained all day, and we spent most of the day playing videogames and just having fun :) The puppies were upset they couldnt go play in the mud, but otherwise it wasnt too bad.
Sunday and Mondays shows were in Laramie, which is about 3.5 miles from our house. I should have known when we loaded the van and plugged the address into the GPS (both of them, the portable and the vans GPS) and neither could find the address, that it was going to be a bad day! Mapquest "found" the address on my phone, and off we went, following those directions. We had left the house with 2 extra hours of "buffer time". We hit HEAVY fog right around the WY/CO border. That took an hour off our buffer time having to slow down in the fog. Once the fog lifted, and we were finally in the "right" area (according to mapquest!) we realized that we were just heading out into the middle of NOWHERE! After about 30 miles and fewer and fewer buildings, I finally was able to reach someone on the phone who could tell me where to go!! We pulled into the parking lot of the show grounds with 15 minutes until ringtime. We pulled the puppies out of their crate, and they were both covered in poo! (and they had both gone before we left! ugh!)Oddly enough, they had covered it up at some point, and we had never even smelled it in the van!! Thank goodness for wet wipes!! We got the puppies cleaned up the best we could, and over to the ring (bouncing and spinning and playing and having a ball the whole way!) with just a minute to spare! The worst thing ever is to take a puppy out of a crate they have been in for a few hours, and walk into a show ring with them!! They were HORRIBLE! So horrible, in fact, that the Judge handed me Pradas ribbons and said "I'm going to tell you now that I'm not going to give her BOW." LOL...cant really blame him!! Gibbs went WD/BOW/BOB for another point. He was such a good boy :) We hung around for Melissa to show Maui in Juniors, and they made up for the Puppies being so bad by winning thier class! So it wasnt a bad show, just stressful to get to! lol. The drive home was GORGEOUS, although long. Still raining in Colorado Springs when we got home. I just put all the dogs out and let them get good and muddy. I also re-bathed 4 dogs before bed :)
We left the next morning EARLY...we had afternoon ring times, but there is NO WAY I was having a repeat of yesterdays fiasco! We got to the show without incident, and spent most of the day walking the puppies around and having fun browsing the vendors. Ring time finally rolled around, and we took the Pointers over. Louie was still acting crazy...but hey, hes 9 months old and wanted to play, so cant blame him. Prada was being a twit and wanting to RUN.........But my Gibbsie boy was an angel :) LOL. Another WD/BOW/BOB for him, and another point. Brings him up to 4 total now. 5 more singles and he will just be hunting majors. Another gorgeous drive home to more rain in the Springs (well, it was raining in WY too, and most of Colorado, but with the dirt in the backyard, rain in the Springs SUCKS!!). All the dogs loved it though. Oh, Melissa and Maui got thier 6th class win in Juniors. They are currently #2 Pointer Junior team in the US.
It was nice to get home. We re-arranged the dogs and put the crates downstairs, so they arent stacked anymore. Poor Tony keeps jumping up on top of Pyros crate and getting really confused that his crate isnt there!! LOL. Hes my acrobat though...he walks on the rail on the back porch...can almost jump up on it from a dead stand but prefers to use the chairs to climb up. He started doing it because we close the curtains on the patio door to keep them from jumping up on it, so he can peek in the dining room window if he is on the rail. Silly, smart boy!
Brian leaves in less than 2 weeks. (I'm about to cry thinking about it) Another dog show this weekend. Majors in Dobes. I have the only class Pointers entered. Large Juniors entries, so I'm hopefull that Melissa and Maui will SHINE like always and do well :) But its MUCH closer to home than the last shows! We arent really doing anything after that until the end of June because Brian is deploying the weekend of the Colorado Springs shows, and there isnt anything local until the end of June. Besides, all my money will be going to health testing in June! LOL.
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