WOO HOO!!!
Congratulations to Ryan Chinn and the newly reactivated Washington branch of Empress for a well run, wonderful and educational show this weekend in Seattle!!!
Sumiko de La Vega showed and ran the points table with Ryan.
All 3 Craners were there and gave a great program on how to rank your herd based on the important characteristics on which chins are judged and Roger Clark from CO was the judge.
This was my first trip to the PNW, a beautiful area of the country. I saw some old friends and met some new ones from the US and Canada.
New ones from US Included Cam, a friend of Ryan's who helped setup and run the show, Amanda, Caroline Olver Fawcett and her daughter, Narcissus and her friends, Jessica Olson, Tamara, Doug from Dark Star and a few more my anesthesia brain forbids me to remember!!!
From Canada, Serena and her family and Shane, who acted as the animal handler.
Door prizes were awesome!!! Fleece items, including a Chinnie Buddy from Annie, chin fur items from Sue Kiseskey and Sumiko, great gift baskets, chinchilla chew toys donated by Therese, including one with a chinchilla shaped wood chew, which I was lucky enough to win, a Flying Saucer donated by the inventor, Amanda's or Tamara's (not sure -- my AB blocks my recollection. Please forgive me if I'm wrong!!) husband, woods and chocolates and my favorite, a long grey scarf knitted by Amanda with acrylic and fur from a "28 and 3/4 year old chinchilla named Arthur", which I was soooo lucky to have won!!!
Today, Ryan and Cam were kind enough to take me to on a quick trip to see the highlights of "The Emerald City" and some of the famous sights I've always wanted to see -- the Space Needle, the Starbucks Mothership (the line was short enough that we actually had enough time that we could get drinks there!!!), the Pike Place Market (I was soooo disappointed that I couldn't get to catch a fish as shown on The Real World Seattle all those years ago!!!). We also drove by Amazon.com's World headquarters.
The weather was perfect -- I got to see Mt. Rainier both Friday and today!!!
I took pictures and Ryan did, too, so I'll post them after he sends them to me and I figure out how to post more than one at a time
The only places I didn't get to actually go to were the Nordstrom's Mothership (we drove by it) and Neiman Marcus' store in Bellvue, but hey -- they're guys, right??? I didn't expect them to take me shopping!!!
Fantastic weekend!!! I can't wait until next year's show!!!
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