KCI Festival

I was really lucky this weekend, Steve and Amy had arrived and set up the caravan in advance so all I had to do was turn up on Thursday afternoon and enjoy. We had the most awful weather over the weekend with really heavy rain and thunderstorms, this made walking to and from the rings quite a chore at times, but luckily yesterday decided to at least be dry while we packed up.
Friday was the qualifiers for the Starters cup, and both Ellen & I managed to qualify for the finals on Saturday! I was really nervous on the start and managed to almost send Maisy into the wrong end of the tunnel, but after what seemed like an age she took the correct entrance, she worked all her contacts and then as I released her from the A frame I sent her over the wrong Jump !!!! Ellen and Hamish came out with 5 faults so neither of us managed to qualify for Discover dogs! never mind.. Amy had taken Rupert and Summer to the companion show which was being held on the same site, she had booked Rupert into the any variety puppy class which had over 20 entries and what a clever puppy he took 5th place even though he was thick mud from the waist down (ssshhhh don't tell Sheila) Maisy had a brilliant jumping round and won the class, so thats the first win towards grade 3!! OMG. Yesterday Maisy felt a bit tired and had a couple of poles down in a very fast jumping course and didn't steady enough before the weaves taking the 2nd pole entry but I was still very pleased with her attempts so a great Festival for us.
Over the weekend we couldn't believe how many dogs were getting loose, it amazes me why anyone would leave a dog loose in their netting garden and leave them while they either run another dog or just go walk about! and I had a jolly good moan to this effect on Saturday evening, then on Sunday morning Amy was scribing in the furthest ring away from our caravan, I had left Rupert in the metal crate and Summer zipped into the fabric crate while I ran Maisy, the next thing I know is Summer has unzipped her crate from the inside and run all the way down to find Amy through 17 rings and hundreds of people! I suppose at least she ran to find Amy and not just off on a jolly!! so I am a little bit more understanding now when I hear that tannoy announcement that there is a black and white collies in the secretaries tent!
I can't wait for Thursday to come so we can set off for Dashing dogs, good luck to anyone who's going, hopefully the weather might improve slightly, but I'll pack my waterproofs just in case ;-)