National Specialty and a week in Colorado in October

Lavonne at the Pony Express Station

Every year we go to the National Specialty of the American Lhasa Apso Club. It is an annual ritual to go to the National and the Regionals that accompany it. We see old friends and make new ones. We get to see the top winning lhasas and show off our lhasas to others. It is fun.

This year my lhasa apso partner, Karen, was unable to go to the Nationals because one of our gals, Secret was due to have puppies. So she chose to stay home to wait for the puppies to come. So I traveled with our friend, Lavonne to Colorado. We drove out to Loveland together with four lhasas.
The trip out was long and uneventful until we stopped for the night in Nebraska. We get checked in and start to drive around the building to get to our room and I look at the person standing in the parking lot with an Alaskan Malamute. It was our friend Pam from Wisconsin. I could not believe it. We ran into each other so far from home. Weird. She was on her way to the National for her breed in a different part of Colorado. We chatted for a while then we all headed to our rooms for a well deserved rest after being on the road most of the day.

We got up early the next day and started out. We stopped for breakfast down the road and then did a little touring. Lavonne jumped the fence to see the sod house. I kept the van running in case we needed a quick getaway.

The Sod house and the fence Lavonne jumped.

See the little red dot next to the Sod House that is Lavonne.

We got going and then stopped at the Pony Express station in a cute little town. It was free to go into and was very rich with history as well as the volunteer who told us all about the station and the town.

The Pony Express Station

The Station's desk

So we continued on. Oh I almost forgot to tell you... we dropped this cute little kitty off to a friend our on way to Colorado. She is doing fine in her new home and couple who adopted her just love her to pieces.

So we get to Colorado and get settled in. It sure is beautiful there and the weather was great. Hotel was beautiful and very accommodating to the American Lhasa Apso Club and the lhasas. We started showing on Tuesday with the Regional #1 and the Futurity. I had Tryst entered in the Stud dog class and we had Mo and Sydney entered in the 6-9 and 9-12 puppy bitch classes. Little did I know this was going to be a hell of a day.

More later.........