LIRR took a ride over Thanksgiving weekend to Montreal Canada to a flyball tournament, run by DogZworth's team, at the Olympic stadium.  It was a long drive, we had some entertaining things happen to the team over that weekend. 

After dropping off the stuff at the site Friday evening, we went to the hotel, two of our members saw the rest of the team in the van pass us by as we were checking in, and the van missed the turn for the hotel.  Shortly after that we got a call from the van crew that they were experiencing electrical difficulties with the van.  They were stuck down the road in a parking lot.  We ferried them, their six dogs, four people and luggage in two trips to the hotel.  The next morning we made two trips to the site to get all the team people and dogs there for the second race of the day.  We then lost another member as she went to the parking lot and followed the van to the repair place.  The van was not fixed until Sunday, so we made another two trips Saturday night to the hotel and two trips on Sunday morning back to the site.  Both Friday and Saturday night our dinners came from fast food bags.  Though we did have a great sit down dinner on Sunday night……

  Special thanks to Amanda (who is Raven’s foster mom!!) from Canine Mutiny for running her (that little funky eared Kelpie) for us during a race, when we were short two humans who were on van retrieval.   Amanda did a great job with the little psycho I did forget to tell her to just line her up in the center of the lane and release her.  So what, she missed a few jumps, Raven had a fantastic time running with her other Mom!  Thank you so much Amanda.  You always can run her, she so loves to play with you.

Our dogs ran very well for us even though we, the people, were all little distracted and missing at times. Our Papillon, Jig also did very well, even though he had a problem in the one race when the spectators were cooing to him and he came over to them because he thought they were calling him. 

We all did get home fine, the van made it home, people and dogs too.  Good thing we stayed overnight on Sunday night, we did not have to drive in the unpleasant weather.  When I got up to walk the dogs in the morning on Monday, I was not impressed with the sleet and freezing rain.  Thank goodness I got to go back to bed and when we did leave later that morning, the weather was fine for traveling.

And Tracy, thanks for letting Kane pose with Flirt for a photo.  Those Kelpies are very cute.

Flirt  (on the right) the #7 Australian Kelpie and Kane (on the left) the #5 Australian Kelpie in the NAFA breed standings.  They met at the Montreal Tourney and Flirt was kind enough to pose with Kane.