Burning Dog Tournament

I had such a great time at the Burning Dog Tournament this weekend. While our club, Bay Racers, hosted it, really Stacey & Anne-Marie did all of the work. We just helped (and brought our usual raffle items).

 Saturday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day. I had found a purple Pirate Poker tee-shirt to wear, and I tried to contribute by playing with the dogs while saying "Arrrggghhhh". But Makoto and Akemi /really/ dressed up:

Pirates Akemi, Makoto, & friends check out Akemi's 2nd Birthday Cake!
 
Near the end of the day on Saturday, 13-year-old Kami really came through, and earned her Flyball Dog Champion 40,000 title. Her boxloader, Manny, gave her a special ball to carry back on that run:

At Awards, Griff was presented with his Flyball Dog Champion 40K Plaque:

Our Regional Director, Bill Carter, made a very nice framed write-up for him to present as well. Griff was a real trooper this weekend, running full-time on Little Dinghies, for a total, I think, of 3 points. Good thing he's not still trying to get to 40,000!
 
Speaking of Little Dinghies, we celebrated their amazing miraculous 3rd place finish by fixing Little Dinghies for all and Mike's great chicken barrel BBQ:

Yum yum! (Pineapple juice, rum, cranberry juice, orange juice, coconut rum)
 
Sunday started out great! Both Buster & Tasha brought back their 50,000 balls (although I think Tasha actually earned hers last month). Here's Buster with his ball—guess what he did 0.342 seconds after I snapped this picture? :)

Unfortunately, Buster got hurt somehow part way through the day on Sunday. He didn't want to race, or really even play with his tennis balls, which is very unusual for him! But after a quiet day today, and a little easy swim in the river yesterday, he seems better already. But that did give Spinnakers the edge for the Tail-End Award! He did play a little with one of his birthday presents today, a big Chuck-It ball! Happy Birthday, Buster!
 
I think we had the most "success" with our Little Dinghies team. I think Lucy is really figuring out the game, Snickers had his first real clean run, and Rosie had the most fun she's ever had at a tournament! (this with loud airplanes, photographers, and construction explosions going off!) Lots of successes, and the next batch of Bay Racers is really coming along!
 
So, not only was the new tournament site a big hit, with the nice parking lot and river for swimming just right there (close enough for Taz to make a run for it; she made it even though Karen is fast); we liked the nearby RV park. And, although we were really worried about the traffic because of all the construction on I80, we had no trouble getting through, and got home before midnight! Yay! (and hooray for Harry Potter audiobooks). I think this new tournament site will be an annual event, Congrats to Anne-Marie and Stacey!

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