More on the Dog Show

We have friends who live in Southern CA and we generally only see them at dog shows. Tish and I had recently been exchanging emails about which dog shows we were going to be going to when we got further south, trying to figure out where we might meet up with them next. But somehow the Grass Valley shows never came up.

Friday night we had the dogs out for their last walk before bed when a large Tiffin Phaeton motorhome passed us on it's way to the check in area. We both remarked how it reminded us of Tish and Orville's motorhome. Then I got a look at the personalized license plate and realized it was Tish and Orville!

We love these little surprise meetings we keep having with friends all over in our travels.

Now on to the dog show results. The first day Gracie - who has a tendency to be a bit of a wild indian in the ring - behaved quite well by her standards and I thought that she was competitive with the other girls there. But still we only took 3rd in our class. On the second day, Gracie again behaved herself in the class competition and moved up a spot to take second place in her class. Which meant she was then eligible for the "Reserve Winners" award - sort of like runner up in Miss America. But when I took her back in for the reserve competition, she was back to her wild indian ways. She went in trying to run way ahead of me and put her head down at the same time - she probably looked like a bucking bronco or something. I think the judge wanted to give her reserve, because he let us go a long way around the ring before he finally gave it to another girl. I think he was waiting for Gracie to move correctly but gave up. Wouldn't you know it was just about then I got her into a good gait and she trotted out of the ring pretty as you please.

Oh well, there's always another dog show around the corner.

After we were done showing on Sunday, we left for Reno. It took us just under two hours of easy driving to get here. We're at an RV park on a hill at the north end of town and we have a view of the valley below. It will be a nice place to spend the next week.