The 'Journey' to Crufts....

I had entered 4 dogs...Eabha, Kitten, Dazzle and Spark but decided not to take Eabha since she was over with Andy and Sam and was due in season any day so decided to take Viggo along just for the ride and some extra socialisation. His first big day out without his sidekick!! lol Alison was also bringing Dylan who I was handling too.

I had a pretty hectic Saturday with my Auntie Jan up from Cornwall and staying for my cousin Amy's 21st birthday party. Mum was doing all the catering for the party so was rather busy. I had someone coming Saturday morning to use Spark. Paul coming down from Edinburgh to visit and collect his puppy, Alison coming to have Dylan's feet and ears trimmed and 4 of my own dogs to bath, blow dry, groom and trim. The van to clean and pack up for a 5.30am start Sunday morning. The puppies to move out of the utility room and into the garage plus all the usual weekend tidying up. I finally got done about 12.30am just as mum and Jan returned from the party (which I missed...boo hoo) and fell into bed exhausted and achey backed just after 1am with the alarm set for 4am!

No need for the alarm since Paul text me at 3.55am and woke me up...thanks Paul!! lol I wanted to give myself plenty of time to take all the dogs I was taking out for an individual lead walk down the lane but it had been very windy overnight and the back yard was bone dry so I just let them out there which was much better since they got a good 40 mins out before we left. The other dogs sleeping out in the garage didn't make a peep thankfully! This left me twiddling my thumbs a bit really since I wasn't picking Trish and Alison up 'til 5.30...this is NOT usual for me...I'm usually rushing around like a headless chicken doing everything on the last minute! lol I have to say it was rather nice! Steve text me as I was pulling off the driveway to see when I was leaving, we were meeting him at Lymm services to collect some fleeces he needed delivering to the Good Citizen stand in hall 3. Of course we would have done this for him anyway but it did come with the added bonus of a pass down to the back of the halls which is where we managed to park all day so no long trek to and from South carpark with all our gear!!