Rondy 2nd day!

I am having a bit of trouble with downloading the new camera pictures and then being able to write a caption or description with them - so I will do it now from memory!
Good nite's sleep at Motel 6- got down to the race site and found out that even though it was reverse order today (1st teams go out last) and we were supposed to park up closer they said our truck/rig was too big so we had to stay in the same place as yesterday (meaning Jess and I had to do the "gauntlet" again today!! 3 city blocks to the start and then back again for the finish). When we got there the vet people were supposed to do the urine drug test again for our team but because we were parked "out of order" because of our assigned parking spot our dogs had to hold their bladders waaaaaaaaaay longer- start went good - race not as good - 7 miles before the finish Randy had to load Patent (the pace setter for the team) he could tell 10 miles before that that he was "thinking he didn't want to do anymore" by the way he was acting - don't know whether it is physical or mental - Randy finished 19th for the 2 day cumulative time!!! still in the money cause they pay down to 20!!

So the pictures are from around downtown - one of the outhouse race entrants; one of the carnival rides you can ride when it is so cold you are freezing on the ground let alone up in the air on a ferris wheel!!!!!!!! While Randy was on the trail Jess and I went down to the fur auction (which was really the original reason for the Fur Rondevous- trappers brought their furs to Anchorage to sell and to celebrate) and we saw awesome pelts - we also saw moose horns for sale at good prices!!! (something Randy has wanted for years!!) Plus Jess was looking for fur mittens to keep his wife, Cindy,hands warm -- found beautiful beaver mittens for $250 - Cindy decided she wouldn't use them that often so it might be a no-go -
One of the pictures is Randy finishing - I wanted you to see how amazing our dogs are doing finishing with all those people in downtown -
So we were ready for Randy to finish and ran the 3 blocks again (thank goodness Jess is here to run them back to the truck - I just tried to hold the back on the line in the middle of the team - even though they are tired they still want to get back to the truck!!!
Randy's GPS still was not working today and I had emailed the manufacturer (which does n't anwer email on weekends) and went to every dog driver today to ask them if they knew how to get it "unfrozen" (Ellis, Streeper, Chezik and anyone else that would listen to me!)
After we drinked and put dogs away we talked Randy in to walking down to the fur auction to see the moose horns and ended up buying 2 for $120!!! super prices for huge horns!!

Loaded everything up and we are back at our Motel 6 home -
Mushing Magazine came by today and did an interview/movie in our trailer; the cornerstreet minister was back and wished us more blessings; more people amazed at our rig and trailer and wanting a tour (I will try to take pictures tomorrow now that I know how to use the camera)wathced the downtown fireworks from out hotel window about 4 miles away and ordered Dominos pizza for dinner again tonite!! More tomorrow - We love you all family!!!!