The little story of our adventurous weekend as it was a total chaos :)
It starts early morning at 3.15 when we realize that the pointer bitch of my friend got into season... Thanks god it is allowed now to have bitches in season at shows as per FCI rules. Then we manage to drive off with 1 hour's delay. Arriving at the Hungarian-Austrian border, my friend realizes that she forgot to bring her passport/ID card. She is not allowed to cross the border of course. There I stand at the road, with a big dog, a pet-home, a bag, a chair, etc. I am lucky to meet a car with a very nice family with whippets who take me to the show in Oberwart. Have you ever hitchhiked to a dog show???? :-) Arriving in Oberwart, hot halls, hot outside as well. Do the winning under judge Marianne Gyárfás: Danka wins the class and also CACIB and finally BOB :-) Waiting for the group, despite the heat. Then trying to find somebody who can drive me back to the Hungarian border. Also fixed. My friend waits there for me, we drive to the place we booked for the night. The room is ok but oh, so hot, at least 50 degrees inside, not suitable for humans... and definately not for dogs. In addition, a wedding is being celebrated in the restaurant of the guesthouse. Lots of noise, drunk people, music... We decide to leave, trying to find another place to stay at. Of course mission impossible, everything is fully booked. At 10 in the night we decide to drive to the show grounds and to sleep in the car. They let us in. We meet the whippet people who took me to Austria in the morning, we park the cars next to each other. Those very friendly people give us blankets and even a hammock that is going to be my "bed" for the night. It was the first time for me to sleep hanging as a banana :-) but soooo nice, not warm, under the trees, no mosquitos for some reason. Danka in the pet-home, enjoying the coolish summer night. It was just perfect. Getting up at 8, take a walk with the dogs, washing hands, feet and face in the rest room :) Good that we took a shower while still at the guesthouse, otherwise it would have been a smelly weekend to remember :-) I am very grateful to Kati and Zsolt (whippet people) for all their help and humor during this weekend. It is so nice to know that there are still these kind of people on earth!

Judge in Szombathely was Antonio Jose Amaral from Portugal. Danka won CAC, CACIB and BOB again and went on to be BOG-3! By winning the CACIB both days, it gives Danka another extra titel: SAVARIA WINNER '07. I am so proud of her. And I am also very thankful to her that she did not let me down and was happy to run all those rounds required by the judges (really a lot) in this heat. Because she is quite a lot affected by warm weather otherwise - a real Scandinavian? :-)

It was definately a weekend to remember - don't you think? :-)