Road Trip

We are back safely from the big adventure of driving to Ontario. We girls, myself and the First Assistant headed off with a trailer full of six alpacas for the 2 day drive to Orangeville.

We were fortunate to have excellent weather in both directions although the weather in Ontario during the show weekend was cold, windy, and snow was in the air.

In retrospect, the drive through Montreal at rush hour was a piece of cake compared to the 401 through Toronto, (not during rush hour!). The newly acquired GPS (thanks Mom) was a god send navigating the 401 exits, however "The Voice", I think her name is Laurie, punished us for mis-understanding her directions.

There are few show pictures as we were both busy ferrying alpacas to and from the show ring, and standing in the ring while the Judges inspected the animals.

This was our First Assistants first time showing alpacas and she pulled it off like a pro. We were pleased with our results at the end of Saturday and decided that if we were to win any ribbons on Sunday that would be icing on the cake. Sunday came and we continued to win ribbons, in spite of Oreo rolling in the dirt and Anuone being wet.

We headed for home Monday morning, and "Laurie" punished us once again. We had a lovely tour of Riviere du Loup and met a charming gas station owner who reassured us that a lot of people stop at his establishment looking for the highway.

It was a long trip but worthwhile just the same. Next trip is to PEI for the Mayflower Show.

Success at Orangeville Show

Caroline, this weekend took six animals to Orangeville for the Alpaca Ontario show. She will post more about her adventures but here is a quick snapshot of the results

On Saturday,
Blizzard 1st place Yearlying white male
Alteza 1st place young junior white female
Oreo 1st place yearling black male
Anuone 2nd place older junior white female
Toblerone 3rd place yearling brown male

On Sunday
Oreo Black Male colour champion
Altezza Reserve white female colour champion
Sedona 2nd place get of dam (Showing of Anuone and Oreo)

All in all a very successful weekend.