June 19th 2008 5:18 pm
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I am SOOOOOOOOOOO happy!!!!! I went on vacation last week to a place called Kalamazoo with Mom and Cheri. They had lots of agility playgrounds for us to play on there, and contests. Mom said it was the UKC Nationals, but I say it was a fun playground!

The BIG news is that I won High Scoring Dog in my division of the All Stars in Agility II (that would be the top 50 in the nation that were invited). Mom is SOOO proud of me!!! To please Mom, I even got over my fear of the Coral-Snake-Tire-Jump that they had there. It was weird and scary at first. What were they thinking when they decorated the tire jump with Coral Snake Stripes??? I also brought home THREE other blue ribbons, mostly for AGIII, which Mom says is the hardest. That sneak Cheri managed to beat me a couple of times, though!

Our friends were also in Kalamazoo, including my boyfriend, Apollo. But Apollo for some reason was distracted and did not pay as much attention to me as usual. I can't figure that one out. Maybe he was nervous about competing.

We got a new SUV. Cheri loves it, as far as sleeping in the car, but I do not. It is weird being in a seat belt, and I did not sleep at all the whole way up and back. Mom says I will get used to it, but we went 2000 miles and I did not sleep. It is comfortable enough, but I don't like seeing the trucks we pass. However, I was a good girl and didn't squirm or whine, I just stayed in my place and rested with my eyes wide open!

We stayed with the nicest people on the way up - they seemed to like us a lot. We went on little walks in Mom's old neighborhood and a man in a wheelchair gave us a cookie on one of our walks. People there like dogs, I think.

There were scads of dogs at the dog show. Mom wanted to take me to the practice pool to see if I would do dock diving (I love water), but it stormed about the time she found out about it and it was the last day of the shows. Too bad for me. A little splashing around would have been fun.

I am a very happy girl, and it is always nice to be home. :-)