In answer to Jess's question and maybe the question of many of you,,,,,,,,,we are not going to Alaska - we would have had to leave almost from Carman race to get there in time for the Rondy and at the time we felt the Rondy would not have enough snow to go,  and we didn't have enough training miles on the dogs - Since the Rondy is Randy's favorite race, we decided not to go to Alaska at all and instead have an "adventure" in Manitoba - so this week we will drive 3 hours from here to Prince Albert for another 10 dogs race with 15 miles and then the next week is Cross Lake - from there who knows!!!

Today was a wake up late day and Kimmy actually wasn't too noisy - so we got up at 9 fed dogs and then had a visit in our "house" from Dave Hochman and Rachel who is training and traveling and racing with him this season - they stayed for about an hour and re-hashed the last race and gave advice about the next couple and then we went to the power lines and trained 3 teams of dogs 7 miles each - just to stretch them out and make sure nobody had any injuries - everyone looked good and ready to race again!  The only bad thing was that Randy should have had a neck warmer on the first 2 runs (it was -2 today without the wind chill...) and it looks like he may have frostbitten his cheeks a bit!

Tonite we are celebrating Valentine's Day (we were a bit busy last Thursday what with racing and all....) and went out to dinner at the nicest hotel in town - very native-oriented design and all natural pine furniture in the dining room with fireplace right in front of us!!  I had fried pickeral which is something I have never had and Randy had an excellent steak!!

Don't know what tomorrow will bring but it's supposed to be -5 F so don't know if we will train again.

Happy Birthday again to Luke today and Bec tomorrow!!!  We love you!!