Saturday morning we woke up bright and early and those of us that wanted one, had a shower. Everyone loaded up and we headed out to get some gas, stop at Target and then get on the road to the Farm. It was about 2 hours away from where we had stayed but the drive was quite scenic.

The first thing the dogs did upon getting there was leap into the pool lol. Mason was in that thing constantly, usually with Wedge as his sidekick.

Here he is with Tractor:

Here he is with Wedge…and Tractor looking on:

Then, everyone set up camp:

The playing field - also where everyone was going to camp:

Before we knew it, more Lab Board people started showing up with their dogs. There were a lot of yellows, plus with it being a hot day, they all wanted to be in the pool:

You can see my boys together in the middle-ish here (distinctive with their collars):

Mason was confused about his color…

It was crazy! And soooo much fun!!!

Yet another group of yellows, Midas is the one with the flipped up ear:

Sometimes there were collisions:

My two seemed to stay together a lot around the pool:

Here is my two with Kim’s two, Cooper and Bailey:

Sometimes we would take a break and dry the dogs off with a brisk game of fetch - which is where Wedge and Mason began to resemble twins lol:

Midas acted like he was going to play, but really, he never moved from that sit position…unless it was to lower to the down position:

Kya got in on the action, but she also liked to stay close to Mom:

Here she is pretending she’s yellow…and a lab

Did I mention that Eric and I had an absolute blast??

There was a delicious pig roasted:

Some adult beverages:

And dessert!

I am so thankful to Whit (and Grant and her wonderful grandparents) for having us out and showing us such a spectacular time!!!!!

I might’ve had some adult beverages too

Whit and Grant tried to help me teach Mason about EV/UV:

He didn’t get it, he either jumped in, straight down into the pool - or he barked…

Although we were trying to train, this Golden kept trying to steal the bumper:

Mason was in and around the pool so much that he wore 4 of his nails down past the quick and two more were almost there. I had to smear on some EMTgel and then bootie him up so they could heal a little - no more swimming for the little dude:

Luckily the booties don’t bother him at all, and he used his injuries to get extra pets from Lisa lol:

Kya even deigned to be petted by a couple of people - especially if they had treats:

One of the best parts of the whole weekend…Midas started jumping like he used to!!!!

Hopefully that will carry over into our next dock jumping competition!

Kya wanted to go in the water really, really badly, but just didn’t manage it, she just tapped around on the top step, tail wagging:

We ended up staying up past almost everyone else and playing some games and chatting…this is the beautiful night sky we had:

One of the most marvelously fun days I’ve had in a really long time, I’m so glad we went! I also was really excited to meet a lot of people, whom before I only ever talked to online. There were many more photographers who were out and took photos, we’re trying to get their photos on the website as well. HERE are where the photos are.

Sunday we woke up fairly early and took our time packing up and heading home. We were exhausted and hit some pretty bad rainstorms on the way (this time I wasn’t out in them), but we finally made it, unloaded the absolute essentials and crashed for the rest of the afternoon. Good times!!!

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