Saturday at Daaquam!!!

Warm day for winter - about 37 degree F - sunny part of the day, cloudy also.  Went out in the 6 dog race with a yearling in lead and he was doing quite well most of the trail and then began to slow down, and more slow, and more slow......and then stopped.  Randy figured he just didn't want to finish so he stopped and hooked down and put an old leader in instead.  While he was making the change the yearling pooped and that was all that was wrong with him because he was rarrin' to go back in point!!!!  Randy came in last partly because of having to stop and change leaders but also because he was going down the trail enjoying himself and what does he see............????  A horse pulling a sleigh with 2 men in it!!!!!  in the trail ahead of him!!!!!! so he has to pass the horse and sleigh which the yearling was not all that excited about doing..........so that took quite a while!  he was not disappointed because the intent of running the 6 dogs was to give the yearling experience (which he got in spades with the snow fence road crossings and the horse on the trail) and to see if the other 2 were well- which they were.

On the open team, they had a meeting and decided what with the new trail through the woods and it being very curvy (at one point Randy couldn't see the front of his 6 dog team???!!!) that they would limit the number of dogs anyone could run to 12 - well that was alright with Randy cause he only had 10 runnable anyhow!  He went out #5 behing Claude and in front of Hermel with Claude's second team - Hermel had already warned him that he would be yelling when he passed him - and sure enough.....  He started out with Spot and Delight in lead and Spot started to shy badly at the crossings, so he put another yearling up with Delight and they finished fine, but also in last place.  Not really a suprise but still a bit disappointing.

Bellerive's had asked us into the lodge for supper so at 7 we went in - lovely dinner with great conversation with Melanie, Renelle, Claude, Hermel and Renelle's brother Jean-Pierre.  The best part of the meal for me was the appetizer - I didn't know for sure what I was getting except that it had the work "saumon" in it (which I knew was "salmon") - it turned out to be salmon sushi and it was very good - served with a bit of greens and a vinaigarette and peppercorns.  Randy and I both ordered the steak........they don't have steak the same way up here...........more like a grilled swiss steak - even medium rare it was hard to cut with a steak knife - most everybody had the spaghetti and Melanie a type of fish - dore_  3 choices on the menu for only $29.99!  We had a very nice time -

This morning is sunny and cool and lots of activity!!  will try to get some pictures and then figure out how to download them!!