Bathurst, Three days

After absolutely no sleep and a very busy week training for work in Sydney I got up at 3 in the morning to go to Bathurst for a three day show.

This was to be our first time camping at a show and thankfully it wasn't too traumatic. However google maps once again tried to screw us and took us the 5 hour 'scenic route' although very pretty,did cause us massive hassles as half the road was around great bloody mountains and was dirt . . . not exactly good for our car which is not build for off road driving!

I did however get a chance to stop at a stunning little cemerety and take some pics, freezing my toes in the thick frost as I did.



I am not going to go on a day by day account of what happened, I am still exhausted and really couldn't be bothered. Lets just say that although Misty didn't get any points (bugger) we did alright with him at least placing with a runner up BOB, two reserve dog challanges and his class twice.

His beautiful grandmother was retired with her final bitch challange and Bud also gained his Aus champ title so a very good weekend really.

Icemist The Dream Maker (Bud)
I was also given the chance to show a lovely little girl all three days, it was so different handling her from my strong willed boof head and it was actually a nice change. I rather look forward to getting a little girl one day.

Icemist Snow Angel (Xena)

Camping itself wasn't all that terrible. My OH actually managed to get the tent up by himself (after we had been assured it was impossible to do)
and we did stay fairly warm in the minus temps overnight. It was a bit of a shock to see the huge amounts of ice covering it the next morning though!

Many photos where taken of some of the lovely dogs there over the three days:

Harry the Keeshond
Snuffy the Landseer Newf
And a beautiful Blue Dane and Saint Bernard girl, both dogs my OH fell in love with. I have a feeling we will end up with a giant breed one day.

We took the advice of some friends and found a much faster way home, no thanks to google maps . . . . .

So all in all not a bad weekend. Our quest for points however continues.

S.