Jazz 2011; This could really be a Good Life.

2011!

Wow, 2011 went by so fast!

We learned and experienced so many new things in 2011.

I could go on, and on about how amazing and awesome 2011 was! But, I'll try to keep it short.
First, watch this video, right here, and then come back and read this :)

Jazz has improved so much in 2011, its amazing really. We switched from 2on2off contacts to running contacts in May, and I think it was one of the best decisions I made in 2011.

I love his contacts. I'm so happy that I no longer have to worry about him hitting the contact or babysit him on his contacts either. I tell ya, one of my best decisions of 2011 :)























Jazz's weaves became way more confident, and fast. He became fast. Faster than he has been before. He tried his best. He gave 110% all the time.

In 2011, Jazz handled me really well. He listened to me really well, and I know he and I learned so much about each other, and agility :)

We also experienced so many new things in 2011!! We went to our first Regionals, placed 4th in our division, and qualified for Nationals!! We attended our first Nationals; the 2011 AAC Nationals, and had an amazing experience! We ran, and had so much fun!! Definetly the best part of 2011. We also did surprisingly well in placements :) I would have never imagained us doing so well. We placed 5th in a Standard run on Saturday, 5th in a Jumpers run on Sunday, 16th overall, and 2nd place in the Steeplechase Finals!! It was simply amazing.

Along with our Regional, and National accomplishments, we also got 33 Qs and 5 titles in 2011.
25 Qs and 2 titles in AAC, with our Ex.Standard Bronze, MSDC and AGDC :) And, 8 Qs and 2 tiles in CKC, with our Novice JWW, and Novice Standard titles :)



I have to admit, I also improved a lot in 2011. I learned a lot of things like patience, and empathy. I learned how to find the bright side on anything, I became I positive thinker. I also improved a lot as a handler. I learned serps and threadles. I learned how to handle Jazz a lot better. I became a better handler. I became a better trainer.

2011,
It was a truly amazingly awesome year. Possibly, the best :)

Agilité aujourd'hui :)

Parfois, j'aime écrire et tapper en français :)
Sometimes, I enjoy writing and typing in French :)

Agility was amazing today :) As usual ;) But, seriously Jazz was amazing!!
His directionals are coming along really nicely on both the aframe and dogwalk in both directions. He's really getting it, and making his turns tighter now :) His teeter is also getting a little better, weaves I can tell are getting faster, and serps and threadles great too. His lead outs, and table are also super. I think once we work on directionals on all equipment, with all sorts of short sequences after the directional cue, we are going to continue our distance plan. We did do Jess Martin's online distance course, but we didn't get to do week 4 yet, since we are still working on directionals, and we got distracted with some other fun stuff too :) (aka; dogwalk, weaves, teeter:) Once we work through that, I think I'll set up a couple gambles, and go from there :) Can't wait for 2012 :)

Also, finished one of the puzzles I got for Christmas :)

Puzzles.

One could compare oneself to a puzzle.
Life could be compared to a puzzle.
As you assemble a puzzle, some pieces fit perfectly, while others almost fit, but not quite.
Some pieces may appear that they fit, although later on you find they really don't.
You may lose some pieces, and find them yet again.
The more you look at the pieces, the more you discover and realize the differences, similarities, the details.
The missing pieces, missing information, can make you confused.
You reach many points of frustration.
At times, you just want to give up.
You make decisions, work through the frustrations, the confusion.
You feel at peace again.
At many points you realize that the puzzle is not complete yet, and you can't wait to see how it turns out.
But, in another way, you don't want to finish it.
Because you realize how fun it is, to play this game.


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Today I began to construct one of the 750 piece puzzles I got for Christmas.

It got me thinking. Not just about the above, but I think it was also good for my mind.

Today and last night, it rained, and rained. No more snow :) I am glad we had it just in time for Christmas, and I kinda hope we don't have a lot of snow the rest of the winter.
Because, I love agility outside :)
Although, I do hear that were getting more snow this weekend. Oh well..
On the bright side, I'll have at least two more days of outside agility this week :)
And, hey, it's December 28th! Who would have thought we wouldn't have snow or still have snow now?! It's almost January.
That reminds me, it's almost 2012!! YAY :)

cute pic of the gingerbread house my brother and I made on Christmas eve :)

Also, hipstamatic = awesome app! Love it :)

Christmas vacation, and SNOW!! *

YAYERS!! 
Christmas vacation has officially began :)

No school for two weeks, YAY! :)

And, (hence the penguins)

 S         N         O        W!!
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It's been snowing all day!!!!

So, we will have a white Christmas after all :)

Season's Greetings!

Hey!!

If you haven't noticed already, the appearance of this blog has changed! :)

I figured out how to insert a banner, and voila!

I was thinking of putting this cutie of a pic, but then I thought I should put Beau and myself also, along with the name of the blog, and description :) 

So, I came up with this..

Personally, I love it :)

It's not a dogwalk, it's a dogrun!

Luckily, school was cancelled today :)
I guess we got some freezing rain overnight and in the early morning. We also got a couple centimeters of snow, although most of it has melted due to the rain.

snow two years ago

I hope it does snow before Christmas. I love white Christmases :)

haha, I remember making this fellow last year

Only 3 more days till Christmas!! And, 1/2 day left of school (tomorrow) :)

And, what's a day off school without some agility? :)

Snazz Jazz and I went out earlier this morning, and to my surprise the dogwalk nor the aframe were covered in ice or snow! No ice or snow = safe to play :)

We haven't been able to use either in a while due to ice and snow on them, so it was a very exciting moment when I seen they were clean :) And, of course, Jazzer did amazing! His dogwalk has come along so well lately!! He is running full blast and hitting the yellow 99% of the time :)

Oh, and I changed the layout of the blog. I like to change it up every once in a while :)

And, while I was looking through some older pics, I found this one from 2008!

Enjoy!

Training, and awesomeness of sorts.

Agility training was really good today. Jazz's directionals are coming along very nicely. As are proofing and rear crossing the weaves :)

I made my first MEP on the weekend. You can check it out here. It's only 5 seconds, watch it :) It was actually really fun making it, and considering it was my first one, and that I'm not that good at editing, I thought it turned out just fine.

Today I also realized that the premium is now out for one my my fav agility trials of the year!! ^^

It's the only trial in the area that ever has 2 rings, and three days :)

And, guess what?! It has 6 Masters Gamblers!! :D In our area it's hard to find trials with 2! Jazzy and I only need 4 for our ATChC and Bronze titles :) 

It's in March, so it'll be our first trial of 2012. YAY!! YAY!! YAYYY!!!!!

I'm actually really excited for 2012, and to see what 2012 will bring :)

Also, only 5 days left till Christmas :) 

Remember me?

Yea, I know I've fallen behind in blogging... it's been a little more than 3 months since my last post!
I do hope to continue posting in this blog, I've just kinda forgot about it lately...

Anyways, it's December!! :)

We did have some snow near the end of October, and some other times too, I think. It did all melt. Meaning, we are still able to do agility outside :) 

These pictures are actually all from that time in October :)

Jazzy loves the snow :)

We had our last trial of the year, at the beginning of October. 8/8 for the amazing Jazz :) He absolutely rocked it, and you can read more in the down bar of this video :) Click Here :)

Since then we've worked on lots of things. We did Jess Martin's online Distance Course, and I can say it helped Jazz and I bunches, and bunches!! So much improvement! :D We've also improved in so many other things since that trial in October! I can't wait to see what 2012 brings :)

Oooh, and I made, well, in the progress of making a look back at 2011 video of Jazz and I :)

That's about it for now, but expect more posts in the near future :)

Running is Love.

I. love. running. truly.

"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run." - John Bingham.

I don't know what I love so much about running, but maybe it's since it's really relaxing for me. It's something I can do myself, and give it my all. I can take a second and just think about anything. It's a time when I can listen to my tunes, and run. It's an amazing feeling for me. It just feels so good. Idk, it's just awesome.

sooooo comfy!

And, the best part is I just got these new shoes.. Reebok Zig Dynamics. They were on sale at Co-op, and I've seen many people with them, running. And, I can tell you this. They. are. comfy. so. so. comfy! Definelty one of the comfiest shoes I have ever tried. I could run miles, and miles in them! Totally recommend them! They are also super awesome for agility! yay!

I think I am going to train for a 1/4 of a marathon.. 10.6 kilometers! I'm going to try to be able to run 10.6k by the end of the year :) I've ran up to 4km so far. I know I can do it ;)


“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
- Henry Ford

Hello September!

September has begun!
And, so has school!
I can't believe how fast the summer went by, it was such an amazing summer!! Regionals, Nationals, and everything in between, definitively one of our best summers!

Remember how I said I was going to make a video of our training on last Thursday (which both dog were rocking ;)), well I did :)
And, here it is :)

Il est si Beau!

Beau vraiment est si beau!

Beau @ a trial last spring

Yes, he has been in a trial before (4 to be spespific); although my Mom was running him. She did do a great job with him. But, when he ran in trials, he would run away from her, yes, sometimes he would come back, but we definitely didnt want him to learn that it was okay to do that in a trial. Now I ran him twice in a trial, same thing occured. While my Mom has decided to focus on Obedience and Rally-O with him for the time being, I have continued to work on agility with him. Wow! Now that I look back on it, he has improved so much since last year! Even since June! You can watch some clips from him in June here :)

Yesterday I set up a modified Challenge course (I call it modified because I have to shrink it a bit since my field is not 100x100). He rocked it! I can now say his contacts, weaves, serps, table, and pretty much everything are coming along very, very well. And tugging.. well, that's just super-dee-dooper! Jazz also rocked it, as usual! ;)

:)

Reach for the stars, is really our moto right now. Last year, I would have never thought we would be this far right now. We may not be trialing right now, but he has improved so much and is rocking at practise! I was hoping to have his re-debut (really his debut trial with me :)) this fall, but I think we should get out training in lots and lots of different locations, and also do a couple fun matches before we enter any trials.

Jazz and I are only in one more trial this year, and it's a CKC one! It's hard to believe it's the 1st of September already! The leaves are changing, little by little, and I thought I'd change my background to the wonderful green summer leaves :) We may not all appreciate them, but we should. No trees, no oxygen, no us! Plus, they're just so.. Beautiful. Peaceful. Wonderful.

working on our tighter serps <3
!reach for the stars!

We went out tonight and ran the same Challenge course a couple times, and I got it on video!! (Also took all the pictures that are in this post tonight :)) The course was rocked once again, by Beau! :)


I hope to get our training in the next couple of days on video. I think I'll set up a couple Challenge courses, and some trickier stuff too :)


Today I am thankful for the trees, and for that Beau is working so well for me :) We're having lots of fun together on the field and I'm so glad he is in my life. He has taught me so much, and I'm also thankful for that also :) 

the videos are ready!

..Ready to be watched that is ;)

Here are all the videos from our weekend at the 2011 AAC Nationals!! Whatta weekend!

Warm-up run can be found here.

Sanctioned Masters Gamblers can be found here.

Steeplechase can be found here :)

And, best of all, the main event... The National Events! They can be found here!!

Enjoy!

Sam.. the cat!

Sam is my Nana's cat.. he is so cute! Just look at him.



Sam <3

I'm visiting my Nana for a couple of days. And this guy is just so cute.
My Nana got him from her local SPCA. He such a happy cat :)

Nina Dobrev.

@ Teen Choice Awards

Nina @ MTV's Music Awards

You may know her from The Vampire Diaries, Degrassi or maybe even the Roommate (if you had the courage to see that movie..) or maybe you know her from any of her other films. Maybe you saw her at the teen choice awards this year, winning choice TV actress for fantasy/sci-fic. Maybe you saw her presenting Justin Bieber's MTV music award win, with her co-star Ian Somerhalder. Or maybe you don't have a clue who she is. I know her from the vampire diaries (one of my fav shows :)). And I'll tell ya, she's amazing. Not only at acting but as a person also.

She's Bulgarian. Although, her hometown is Toronto. She's 22, and loves yoga.

a quote Nina tweeted recently

Her twitter is the best. She posts an inspirational quote or picture quote everyday and they are truly inspirational. If you have twitter, follow her! (http://twitter.com/#!/NINADOBREV or @ninadobrev)

Camping.. is awesome!

Ah, the smell of campfires and mini barbecues, the fresh air.. it's awesome.
Such a great feeling.
Camping with the famjam is always the best.
Great times, great times :)

We went camping this weekend at Jellystone park :) It was the Halloween weekend, so lots of activities and trick or treating! I stayed at the trailer and gave out treats :) My little brother went trick or treating, had lots of fun and got lots of candy! There was a site decorating contest and we can in 3rd place. Not too bad!

I also finished another book. "The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion" 
4th book in the series, and a great book!
TVD is waaay better than Twilight, just sayin'!

Besides that, we were there with some friends we haven't seen in 4 years! Fun times.

And, the moon was beautiful! Full and bright.

Gotta love camping :)

This blog is undergoing some changes.

Yea, it is.
So, if you see anything weird or unusual, don't panic ;)

an amazing trial, for sure.

At the beginning of July we went to a trial held by FAST. It was an amazing trial for Jazz and I!! So many brilliant moments and as you can tell by the music in the video (link is below); "Never Say Never". Definetely one of my motos. It was definetely one of our best trials this year. We got 6/8 Qs, and that doesn't matter because he ran so well that weekend. Our only faults, were my fault. *Rachel, you know not to call his name while he's going over a jump.* 

Jazz and I with our Qs and judge Lynda Yielding 

For some odd reason, the photo above would not go into the video.
I love this picture of Jazz :) He also looks so happy and proud.

I finally got the video up and here it is :)

Sunday's National Events!!

Such. An. Amazing. Experience.
I repeat, Such an Amazing Experience!!


Nationals was so so so much fun!!
Absolutely Awesome!


On Sunday we ran Standard first. This was a nice course. At the end of the run we had 15 faults. Two bars and a refusal. I think the first bar could have been since my FC ended up being a little late. The refusal was since I did not support enough coming out of the tunnel (a little layering) then he knocked the bar on that jump since when I brought him back around, I did not give him enough space ahead of the jump :\ But, the rest of the run went really well. Beautiful contacts. He also did splendid with 3 FCs over the course, as usual ;) Even though we had 15 faults it was such a fun course to run!


Jumpers was next. Definetely one of our best Jumpers! With a time of 35.70 seconds; 9.30 seconds under time! Super good time for us! I even got a FC in where I thought I was going to have to rear. And, I thought I was going to have to hold my front longer so that I would not push him to the wrong side of the jump, but I got ahead of him, and got in the right spot! The front was right on time :) So many brilliant moments in this run.. I could go on and on! And, guess what.. we got a 5th place in this run too! Super proud moment!!! Jumpers has never been our best placing run at our local trials, because of time. So, I'm sure you could just imagine how happy I was! :) To get a 5th place in Jumpers at the National level.. I was speechless!


Gamblers was also a splendid run! 47 points in the opening with two dogwalks, a mini twice, and some other stuff in between :) We did not get the gamble, but still a great run! Such a great run to end the weekend :)


Our last run was the Steeplechase Finals. To be honest, I was nervous. And, I never get nervous before any runs, not even at Regionals or Nationals. But, there was a huge amount of people watching, it was being televised, a man was anouncing stuff and the music was blarring. It was a good experience, though! Jazz ran super, as usual :) I think the music bothered him a bit at the beginning, but a great run. Not our fastest, but still a great run. We got 2nd out of the juniors, and $15 :) Again, super proud of him!!

Jazz and I with all our ribbons from the weekend! :)

Such an amazing weekend, and I am so blessed  to have been able to have this wonderful experience. We had so many brilliant moments over the weekend, and I can't wait for our next Nationals!!

Saturday's National Events!!

Such. An. Amazing. Experience.
I repeat, Such an Amazing Experience!!


Nationals was so so so much fun!!
Absolutely Awesome!

On Saturday we ran Gamblers first. We had a good opening with 30 points. 30 points, but he ran well. He got his contacts and did everything he was told :) We did not get the gamble. We had some buzzer mix ups.. 3 rings running gamblers, and yes, they do tell you what your buzzer sounds like, but when I'm running I just don't think about that. Oh well. At least, he ran well :)

Standard was next. I really liked this course. A lot. It ran fast, and I have to say it was one of our best Standards this year. One of our fastest for sure. Clean and 41.84 seconds :) I remember at the start of this year when we ran Standards in 50 seconds or more. So nice to see improvement!! Such a good feeling when we came out of the ring :) We placed 5th in this run!!

Jazz and our 5th place ribbon for Standard :)

Jumpers was our last run of the day. This run went really well. Really nice course, too. At one point it would have been faster to do a RC instead of a wrap. I walked it as both ways, and I planned to do the wrap. As I was not sure he would read the RC properly. (we have not done them at such a sharp angle before. something new to practice) But, when I was running I thought the RC would actually be better, I deceled and forgot to tell Jazz to go on and we got a refusal. I got him back over the jump, and the rest was clean :) Even though we got the refusal, I was very happy with the rest of the run. We had two nice FCs, a RC and a Serp in the rest of the run. All of which he did super :)

Such a great day! The awards after were so exciting. It was nice to cheer everyone on as they went up to the stage!
We even got a 5th in Standard!! I was so proud :)

Shannon also finished painting our chair on Saturday.. see the resemblance? ;)

Videos to be posted soon :)

Friday's Fun :)

On Friday we ran a Masters Gamblers and Steeplechase :)

Masters Gamblers was good. It was our first run of the day and to be honest, Jazz was a little jumpy. He did get the mini twice but with a lot of barking before sending.. We did not get the gamble, but it was fun to run :)

Steeplechase went great! All clean except he popped out of the weaves and I put him back in the wrong spot.. :( 20 faults.. but he ran spectacular! Fast! Ran super even with a rear cross :) I'm so delighted he's getting better at them! And, guess what.. 

yeah!

We were a finalist.. yeah!

Video to be posted soon :)

2011 Nationals: Day 6!!

Today was day 6! woot! woot!!

Today we headed to the Nationals site, set up Jazz's crate and our chairs, ran a warm-up run, did some obstacle familiarisation, and did a little shopping :)

First of all, the Nationals site is the best! So big. It's nice and spread out and there was not that much comotion today. (yet they were only running pre-qualifiers and warm-ups) I walked Jazz around a lot, and he seems very comfortable with the site :) There is just such a wonderful feeling when you enter. So much good energy and just such a wonderful experience already!!

Our warm-up run was absolutely awesome! The rubberised contacts didn't fizz Jazz a bit! He did great on all the obstacles :) I can't wait for the events to begin!!

They had the aframe, dogwalk, teeter all set up in a loop for the obstacle familiarisation in ring 3. We ran through once when it first opened, and about a half hour later, we ran around the loop just once more. Jazz did great on all the contacts, with great speed too! :)

We also did a little shopping. I am so happy that I saved up all my money all year long! There is so many vendors! A bought Jazz a nice tug that has some some sheep skin on it, with a tennis ball on the end. He absolutely loves it!! And, I bought a teal 20' tunnnel! :) I have wanted another tunnel for so long, sooo happy I saved up my money! Got a good deal on it too :)

I totally can't wait for tomorrow! Master Gamblers and Steeplechase here we come!!!!

2011 Nationals: Day 5!

Yesterday was day 5, of our trip :)

It was my little brother's birthday!!
We had a ice cream cake from Baskin' Robins. Really good!! He opened his presents and got some really great gifts. He seems to love them all :) He was so happy it was his birthday, and I think he really enjoyed it.

We went to the mall later in the afternoon. We ended up going to Sportscheck, seen on TV, and the Disney Store. I got a really nice pink (cool gear) t-shirt and a pair of under armour shorts. Both for under $50 :) I also got Jillian Michael's new DVD :) I loved her 30 day shred so much, I thought, why not? ;) Mom got a Zumba DVD set, looks fun too!At the Disney Store, we got some things for Alex for his birthday. We don't have a Disney Store anywhere near us, so it's nice when we can find one on the road. He was so happy!!

Then, the best part (in my opinion); we went and registered at the Nationals site :) It was so nice to walk around and look around the site. When registering we got a nice competitors bag, full of goodies :) The Nationals shirt I ordered fit perfectly too! :)

All in all, a super great day!

A ton of Excitement!!

Yay!!!!!
Today is Wednesday.. which means today we will go register and check out the setup at Nationals!!

I am super pumped, as this is my first Nationals! After Regionals, I was soooo (and I totally mean so so so so so) excited when my Mom said we could go to Nationals since Jazz and I made it :) It'll be a first Nationals for both of us :)

I'm sure we will do just mighty fine; Dont' Stop Believin'! The best part will be just that we can have the experience to run, and enjoy a competition with dogs of such excellence competing in it.It'll be such a spectacular experience, either way.

I also can't wait to run the courses!! Especially gamblers :) We have been working on our distance work all last month (along with some other stuff too, of course :)) And, it's been a real grand goal of mine, to get a gamble at Nationals with Jazz :) Or, at least improve our gamblers runs than how they were at Regionals :)again, Don't Stop Believin'! :)

Standard is also an exciting class for sure! We've been working on his running contacts this summer, and I love them! Hard work pays off :)

Jumpers is also just as exciting! We've been working on our decels, acels, front crosses, threadles, serps, and especially our rear crosses. It's so so so so nice to see improvement! In both my handling and Jazz :)

I'm so excited to see everything come together, and just compete and have fun!

Don't Stop Believin'!!

2011 Nationals Trip: Day 4 :)

Yesterday was day 4 of our trip.. and awesome it was!

 We went to the "Elmvale Jungle Zoo"!!







A grand zoo, it was. Huge with many, many animals. It was so interesting to see the animals; from guinea pigs to lions and giraffes. Speaking of giraffes, we got to feed them! So cool! We also got to feed the monkeys :)


At the end before we left, they had a show. There was a guy (pictured) who would bring out the some of the reptiles and baby animals so that some of the kids come see them. My little brother really enjoyed this part :) There was also a really nice girl (not pictured) who was explaining about each animal that the man brought out. It was actually really neat to hear about all the animals. Yay for an educational experience ;)

and, now for my.. well lets just say.. learning experience ;)

I was just about to walk out the door to play ball with Jazz for a bit,, I leaned my arm up against the door, to push it open. hard to explain..picture below! (the only flaw in the picture is that, the door that pinched me was not a emergency door, just a normal one) right where the arrow is pointing is right where my arm got stuck.. ouchie, ouch!

So, my arm got pinched right in there..

And, it left a huge cut :(
I'm fine, though :)
My arm is now bandaged up, but.. wait before I say the "but" read this quote below:


“I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it." ~Alexa Mc Laughlin

So, the "but" is the following..
I may have got my arm stuck in the door, but I have learned not to open a door that way. (leaning my arm against it to push open)
;)

We also went to get Alex's birthday cake; without him knowing, of course :) His birthday's today and he's so excited!!

That's all for now!

2011 Nationals Trip: Days 1-3 :)

So, we've began our trip to Nationals.. and it's been amazing so far!!

We drove all the first day.. but, hey, I almost finished my book :)



Second day, we went to a blue jays baseball game! It also happened to be the day the blue jays retired Roberto Alomar's jersey... pretty cool to be there. It was such a nice atmosphere to be in! So much energy! 45, 269 people there, if I remember correctly :)





best second baseman.. ever.

 After the game, we went to the CN Tower.. Wow, what an experience! All the way to the top in 58 seconds! 22 km/h, in that elevator! After going thru security, the nicest security guard let us go thru the "express" since he noticed my brother (he has a disability). It was so nice to see the smile on my brother's face since "we got to go on first, since it's my birthday" he would say :') His birthday is on Wednesday and he's so happy we get to go on a trip for his birthday :)

Once we got to the top, it was amazing! You could see all of Toronto, if not, almost all of it! Then we went up a couple stairs to go to the glass floor part.. that's a completely different point of view! There were some kids jumping on it.. that was scary.... and I didn't even know the kids.

After we got back down, again in 58 seconds.. we got some freshly squeezed lemonade.. so yummy!



CN Tower.. absolutely amazing.

 Yesterday was day 3 of our trip, and we went to the "one and only"...
Canada's Wonderland!

Canada's Wonderland is quite amazing! It's so nice to see them honoring all of the flags of Canada in the entrance. After watching the diver show; of a 20m drop (scary!), we went to Snoopy's part of the park, and watched a Charlie Brown show.
Then, we did the best part (well, my favorite part ;)) "The White Water Rapids" ride. We were sitting in a tube thing with six seats.. (with seat belts, of course ;)) going thru well, white water rapids ;) It was so much fun! There was lots of waves and drops in the course, and we got splashed. :) In the end, I got soaked.. there was one part where we went under this mini, mini, mini waterfall...some falling water on the people going on the ride... and I was the one who got soaked in our tube :) I was so happy, it was like 35 degrees! I was cool for the rest of the day :) After that, we looked at a lot of the other rides. (mostly roller coasters, a lot of them where CrAzY!) Then, we went to see the "Snoopy Rocks! Ice Show". That was also spectacular! Some of the jumps the skaters were making were just, wow! Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Sally and Linus were doing pretty good too ;)

that's exactly the falling water, that got all over me :)

Of course, I've taken pictures of almost every step of the way :) Unfortunately, I forgot the cord for the camera to computer.. I'll just have to post the pictures once we get home. All pictures here are off of the Internet, and they belong  to their respectful owners.

The trip has been amazing so far!!

I can't wait to see what happens today! :)



Welcome to my new Blog!

Hi, I'm Rachel! 
I have two dogs; Jazz and Beau. I'm an agility addict!

I have wanted to have a blog for a while now, and I guess today was the day. I will be blogging mostly about my dogs, but I will also be blogging about other things in life too.

Before leaving, checkout our YouTube channel; www.youtube.com/user/CanineKisses

That's it for now!