We traveled up to the Traverse City Cherry Festival this weekend for another Ultimate Air Dog event. We camped out in my parents’ friends’ side yard. It was fun.

Friday. We got to Interlochen late so we had to hurry to TC to get there in time for registration/practice. There was an insanely long line of dogs waiting for a practice jump. We got up there twice and it went really well. Midas was revved and he finally has caught on to our “The Chase” training. I am so excited! He’s finally, finally going for the bumper like he’s supposed to. His jump: 18′3″!!! That’s a new personal best! AND he jumped a foot early - so really it was 19′3″. My fault for setting him up in the wrong spot, don’t have that down pat yet. But, overall it was great. Then that night Midas cut his paw pad on something and it was bleeding like crazy. My dad doctored it all up though, some baking soda to stop the bleeding after it was cleaned up and then super glue to top it off - worked like a charm.

He only wore that for 20 minutes, until we were sure the bleeding had stopped. He was so good, never even nibbled on it.

Saturday. It was chilly, it rained and it was windy. Midas was in a mood and jumped horrible, which complemented my horrible throws. Yeah, we did bad. I was crabby after he tried to lunge up onto the dock when it wasn’t his turn and he tore open one of my toes…I’m buying Crocs now for dock-jumping. His longest jump was a measly 15′8″ which was a complete disappointment after the excitement from the day before.

Some photos of my truly horrendous throws:

Those were almost too embarrassing to post. Oh well, we are both still learning. Practice makes perfect.

Other dogs were awesome and fun to watch. There were some amazing Labs and Border Collies with such intense concentration it was scary. Then of course all the usual people that do amazing: Rajah, Oskar etc etc We got to help out with the medals. That was fun. I like to feel useful and I love to help out, especially at places that I am involved in anyway. It was a good time. I prefer events with a little less people though.

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