4h of July Weekend

We celebrated the 4th of July weekend with a UKC show in Schiller Park, IL.

Atlas took a Best of Breed and Group II in one show. He has almost enough top ten points to make it into the top ten. We need a few more. I didn't take a stacked picture of him, but I took a couple of cute shots in my parent's backyard:

Donna's dogs did well too. Uanouk (Berger Picard) finished her UKC Championship. Honneur (Berger Picard) got two wins for his Grand Championship.

The best news of the weekend was that our "filler champion" Echo (Atlas and Nadia's mom) won two Best of Breeds and a Group I and Group II. She finished her UKC Grand Championship at nine years old! Way to go Echo!!! Here's a picture of her:

My WGSDCII Results

We ended up with good results. Vegas was WB in show 3 and RWB in show 4. Her win in show 3 was a four point major and should finish her WGSDCII Championship.

Atlas was Select 3 dog at the National, his third select. He also got a special award at the Awards Banquet for being #1 dog of the top ten for 2008.

Atlas, Vegas and Nadia all showed very well all weekend, despite the heat. They also all passed OFA Cardiac on Saturday!

We finally made it home about 2 p.m on Tuesday - only about 24 hours later than expected!

WGSDCII Weekend Over

Well the weekend is over and we're sitting in the hotel room. We're stranded here in Plano because something is wrong with Donna's car. I'm not a car person, but basically if we drive it and it fails, we would be stranded. So we need to get it fixed before we drive home. She has an appointment at 7:30 tomorrow, so we have to see when we get it finished and can drive home.

We were unloading at the hotel after the show and I brought in Nadia and Donna had Polar. As I was putting Nadia in a crate, I saw a white blur go by the window. Yeah, Atlas decided he didn't want to wait in the car. :) Luckily, he was just standing by the door to the hotel waiting for us. He is such a goof.

I think all the dogs will be glad to be out of the heat. Hopefully we can get home either VERY late tomorrow or mid-day Tuesday.

WGSDCII Results - A Note

Originally, when I was at the shows, I posted results here on my blog. I did this so that people that couldn't make the show could hear the results. Sadly, although my intentions were good, this information became part of a controversy.

Due to the sad events that occured, I decided to remove all the results from my site. I will simply say there were some really nice dogs competing and there were a lot of different winners. From there, I will stick to posting only info about my dogs.

My Day in Texas

First, let me say Texas is WAAAYYY too hot for any sane being to exist in. It was 103 today.

After the shows, Donna wanted to get new shocks put on her car. Luckily, as we drove to the hotel, I saw a place that advertised shocks, brakes, etc. I also saw a restaurant nearby that looked interesting. Now, I am often criticized for not being open to new things. So I figured, hey, the restaurant looks nice, clean, etc and it's something new.

So Donna and I dropped off the car and walked to the restaurant. It looked to me like it had a northwoods our mountainering kind of theme. It was called Twin Peaks and had pictures of mountains and it said "Eats, Drinks and Scenic Views". We were kind of like "what scenic views"? but figured it was a theme thing (or at least I did).

So we walked in and the girl at the podium who seats you was practically naked. Donna and I both had a realization moment..."oh - twin peaks...I get it". See, it's basically a Hooters kind of place. Nice. Except at Hooters they wear t-shirts that do cover their boobs. Here, they had a Daisy Duke kind of top that just squeezed their boobs together.

So, we didn't quite get it in time to leave and we sat down. We were the only women there, but the food was good and it wasn't sleezy or anything. Of course we laughed our butts off. I did get some pictures of the scenic views:

On the road

I arrived at Donna's about 5:30 and we hit the road. We stopped in Albert Lea, MN at McDonald's for breakfast. Then we drove all the way to Kansas City where we met someone Donna was giving a dog to.

We jumped back on the road and stopped at a Chipotle just outside of KC. We ate in the car because of the heat.

Now we're just leaving Kansas and entered Oklahoma. About four and a half hours left!

Ready to Hit the Road

Dogs are groomed, bags packed! Atlas won't part with his favorite toy but he will once I ask if he wants to "go with"! I'm getting up at 4 am to hit the road. I should make it to Donna's about 5:30 and then we're off!